All Staffing and Training Podcasts

Podcast: Microsoft COO Kevin Turner on how to get a high-paying management job in IT

Podcast
Author: John-Paul Kamath
Date: 17 April 2008

Microsoft hired Kevin Turner to be its Chief Operating Officer and offered him base salary of $570,000 (£285,000) per year and a $7m (£3.5m) up-front payment in 2005. Kevin Turner, previously CIO at Wal-Mart, gives his top tips in six minutes on how IT staff can make the progression to managers and earn the big bucks.

IT news round-up podcast for 20 March: Patent warning and workplace bullying

Podcast
Author: Warwick Ashford
Date: 20 March 2008

Weekly round-up of UK IT news. This week, stories include a warning to IBM customers to check they're protected from patent lawsuits by third-party software developers and news that over two-thirds of UK IT workers claim that they have suffered workplace bullying.

IT news round-up podcast: IT jobs market - 3 March 2008

Podcast
Author: Warwick Ashford
Date: 03 March 2008

This week: Computer Weekly’s quarterly survey of the IT jobs market; the new national database of confidential patient records to be open to access by staff without professional qualifications; and EasyJet's website redesign.

Weekly IT news round-up podcast: Blair's politics interfered with NHS NPfIT practicalities

Podcast
Author: Warwick Ashford
Date: 18 February 2008

In this week's podcast round-up of the latest IT industry news, Warwick Ashford discusses stories including revelations that Tony Blair tried to shorten the NPfIT timetable to meet an election deadline, and the way in which a number of companies are making the most of the special skills of people with autism in the world of software testing.

Interviews with women working in IT: Not just a man's world

Podcast
Author: Rebecca Thomson
Date: 25 January 2008

Rebecca Thomson talks to senior female figures in the IT industry about the issues around working in what is still seen by some as a 'male' profession.

Unified communications with Nortel CTO John Roese

Podcast
Author: John-Paul Kamath
Date: 04 January 2008

Nortel CTO John Roese talks to Computer Weekly's deputy technology editor, John-Paul Kamath, about unified communications and making the leap from network manager to CTO.