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Aust ICT salaries enjoy growth: Survey

Australia's information and communications technology (ICT) employees enjoyed an average real salary increase of 1.4 percent from August 2003-August 2004, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) said today. Read more »

Contract your Oracle skills for big bucks

If you have Oracle skills, 2008 could be something of a jackpot year, with contractors in short supply as demand ramps up over the next 12 months, IT recruitment company Technojobs has said. Read more »

Australia pays its way for IT managers

A global salary survey has placed Australia in the top 10 of the world's highest-paying countries for IT managers, but some within the industry are not convinced. Read more »

Gender gap not crossed in IT pay

The pay gap between male and female tech professionals has narrowed but striking differences remain, according to the latest UK government research. Read more »

ERP specialists most wanted in Australia

The IT job market in Australia is experiencing a boom due to increased spending on technology infrastructure, with opportunities greatest for SAP, Oracle and Peoplesoft specialists looking for engagements in New South Wales (NSW), Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Read more »

Aussie IT jobs market still buoyant

There is still plenty of local work for skilled IT staff despite a global financial crisis, according to one of Australia's largest technology staff recruiters, but not much room to move in terms of higher salaries. Read more »

JobWatch: What goes up is now coming down

The sharp rise in demand for IT skills throughout 2007 is well and truly in retreat according to the latest figures from the Olivier Job Index. Read more »

Candidate shortages hit Aust IT industry

Increased demand for information technology employees by employers in Australia and New Zealand is sparking talent shortages in key areas, a new survey claims. Read more »

UK Study shows unemployment highest among IT graduates

IT graduates have the highest unemployment rate across all degree subjects at almost double the average for students leaving UK university courses, according to new figures from the Higher Education Careers Services Unit. Read more »

New Sun CEO a millionaire - and then some

Jonathan Schwartz, named Sun Microsystems' new chief executive on Monday, has a base salary of US$1 million, the server and software maker disclosed in a regulatory filing on Thursday. Read more »

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The move from tech to business management

In hard times, tech managers can leverage their soft skills to land jobs in other industries. But ask yourself these questions before changing careers. Read more »

Working with contract tech writers for documentation needs

Documentation is a key to success for many IT projects, but budgeting for the effort and hiring resources can be challenging. Use these tips as a guideline when hiring technical writers to handle the job. Read more »

Would you work for an Internet startup now?

The dot-com boom may be over, but opportunities still exist among Internet startups. Before you take a job with a new dot com, ask these questions. Read more »

Designing for distant shores, part 2

In our final part in our series on selling software overseas, Angus Kidman identifies the business issues you'll need to address. Read more »

Six "must haves" for the creation of highly productive software teams

An Inc. 500 profile from the SoftwareCEO Web site: Performance Software CEO Tim Bigelow shares his six "must-haves" for the creation of highly productive software teams. Read more »

Five ways to make meetings bearable

More annoying than even junk mail is the dreaded Outlook meeting invite. Find out how to make meetings more bearable. Read more »

Aussie IT unions rise from the dead

Australia's creaky technology unions have finally awoken from their long slumber and have started to throw their weight around. Read more »

Simple advice for job seekers

Commentary--We try and make some sense of the plethora of reports on the IT job market. Read more »

Are you only working for the money?

If you didn't need the money, would you do the same work that you're doing today without pay? Read more »

Top 10 reasons to avoid IT salespeople

Like the rest of us, salespeople and consultants are only doing their job -- but why do they have to be quite so annoying? Read more »

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Don't bother with the counter offer

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- While Australia is currently in a tight labour market should you really bother with a counter offer when an employee already has one foot out the door? Read more »

Web survey confirms the obvious

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- Web Design blog A List Apart has published the results of their first annual survey of web professionals, and the results should surprise absolutely nobody. I'll take this opportunity to break down the results (Warning: statistics ahead). Read more »

Take off your suit pants and jacket -- It's Web 2.0

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- With the shortage of talented IT staff on hand the smell of dot-com culture has made a comeback. Welcome to Web 2.0 work culture , the future of yesterday. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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