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IT jobs and recruitment

• Retail’s IT talent search intensifies

  Retailers from different sectors are on the hunt to fill similar IT job roles, but are all finding different ways to source the sought-after talent  Continue Reading

• Tech’s ongoing mental health crisis

  The pandemic shone a light on the impact long hours and high pressure can have on the mental health of technology workers – an issue that is at risk of continuing long after Covid  Continue Reading

• Tech companies join UK four-day work week trial

  Computer Weekly speaks with tech companies taking part in the UK’s upcoming four-day work week trial, which will measure the impact of shorter working weeks on productivity, wellbeing and the environment  Continue Reading

• How to retain cyber talent in the Great Resignation

  The cyber security industry is experiencing alarming rates of resignations, leaving organisations vulnerable to cyber attacks. How can we better retain cyber talent?  Continue Reading

• How algorithmic automation could manage workers ethically

  Managing workers by algorithm and automated process has generated ethical problems aplenty. Can such means be pressed into the service for a more ethical mode of worker management? We find out  Continue Reading

• Recruitment risks: Avoiding the dangers of fraudulent candidates

  Tech companies are seeing an increase in fraudulent job applications, with associated impacts on risk and cyber security. So how can organisations protect themselves from fraudulent applicants while ensuring they recruit the best talent?  Continue Reading

• Why you need soft skills to excel in your tech career

  With deliberate practice you can hone your soft skills, increase the impact of your work and grow your influence in an organisation  Continue Reading

• Why post-pandemic reskilling must focus on mainframes

  A major contributing factor to UK-wide skills shortages is the significant number of people who have left the workforce since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic  Continue Reading

• A plan for technical and security training

  An array of options is available to help IT leaders refresh security skills or update tech skills. We look at how to decide what is best  Continue Reading

• How Dutch hackers are working to make the internet safe

  We hear how the personal mission of a Dutch hacker grew into a serious organisation with international ambitions  Continue Reading

• What neurodivergent people really think of working in cyber security

  Many firms are filling cyber security skills gaps by hiring neurodivergent talent – but more support is needed for neurodivergent cyber security professionals, writes autistic tech journalist Nicholas Fearn  Continue Reading

• Is the tech sector facing an IT skills exodus?

  Three out of five of tech professionals say they are looking to move jobs over the next year. Why is this, and how big a skills problem is the tech industry facing?  Continue Reading

• Bridging the gender gap in cyber security

  Some professional groups and companies in Asia are working hard to improve awareness of the cyber security profession and mentoring talented women in a bid to bridge the gender gap  Continue Reading

• Age discrimination: An overlooked diversity issue in tech

  When people talk about a lack of diversity in technology, age discrimination is not the first issue to come to mind, but it’s one that is prolific across the UK’s tech sector  Continue Reading

• Making a mark in cyber security

  Claudean Zheng’s knack for hacking landed her a career in cyber security, one that has been dotted by stints in both public and private sectors  Continue Reading

• How women can succeed in cyber security

  A cyber security professional at Australia’s IAG shares her career journey and insights on how women can succeed in the field  Continue Reading

• What steps can we take to finally close the tech skills gap?

  Despite ongoing efforts from government, education providers and industry to close the tech skills gap, not much has changed, so will new initiatives start to close the chasm?  Continue Reading

• APAC career guide on cloud computing

  Besides having engineering chops and certifications, aspiring cloud professionals should have curiosity and soft skills to succeed in the evolving cloud computing landscape  Continue Reading

• Why some jobseekers have turned to cyber crime during the pandemic

  Research shows that many people have been seeking cyber crime-related work on the dark web, but why?  Continue Reading

• Starting a career in the digital economy

  What is it currently like for young people trying to hit the ground running with digital careers? What do employers want from them, and how has the last year of lockdowns affected their chances at a digital career?  Continue Reading

• APAC career guide: How to become a DevOps engineer

  A DevOps career can be highly rewarding, as long as you are open to learning new things and collaborating with team mates to solve problems in software development  Continue Reading

• How the pandemic has affected women in the tech sector

  The coronavirus outbreak has created uncertainty across all sectors, but how specifically has it affected women working in the tech industry?  Continue Reading

• Learning on the job when working from home

  Learning a new job and inducting hires when working from home has been tricky for employees and employers alike. We look at what workarounds have been adopted that could become the post-pandemic normal  Continue Reading

• What will increased remote working mean for tech salaries?

  As remote working becomes more popular because of the coronavirus outbreak, people have less need to be near city centres – but what might this mean for tech workers’ salaries?  Continue Reading

• Is the dial shifting for underrepresented groups in the UK’s tech sector?

  George Floyd’s death and the resulting Black Lives Matter movement has raised awareness about the disparity in many areas of society, including the tech sector. Many firms claim to be headed for change, but will this change be sustained into the ...  Continue Reading

• Storage skills in the age of the cloud and convergence

  Storage skills was a discrete area in the IT jobs market, but that’s being eroded by the cloud, hyper-convergence infrastructure, and virtualisation. So, what are the key storage skillsets today?  Continue Reading

• Will the Covid-19 crisis accelerate a shift in tech talent out of London?

  As the coronavirus pandemic has forced firms to work more flexibly, threatening traditional large office spaces in London, will tech talent make a long-term shift away from the capital?  Continue Reading

• Diversity in coding bootcamps

  Coding bootcamp operators must actively engage with issues of access, diversity and inclusion if they want to stop reproducing the same gendered, racialised and class-based outcomes the tech sector keeps promising to address  Continue Reading

• Making the most of coding bootcamps

  Computer Weekly explores how aspiring developers can make the most of coding bootcamps, with a focus on how to avoid being duped by a programme that promises more than it can deliver  Continue Reading

• How to build the perfect tech team despite talent shortages

  The technology skills gap is growing worldwide, despite digital skills being as important as ever. So how can IT leaders develop the perfect tech team in the current talent environment?  Continue Reading

• Whisper it… but could a cyber attack be good for your career?

  All too often it’s the CISO who carries the can for an enterprise security failure, but this might not be a bad thing. There’s lots of evidence to suggest that falling victim to a cyber attack may actually enhance your CV  Continue Reading

• Virtuous circles: Skilling up for an ethical web

  Tim Berners Lee’s Contract for the Web aims to drive the internet in a more ethical, open and human-centred direction. What does this mean for the future of IT skills and governance?  Continue Reading

• Can the UK government’s efforts solve the cyber skills gap?

  There has been an active effort by the UK government to tackle the lack of skills in the cyber security space – but is it enough?  Continue Reading

• Reskilling the UK in the face of AI growth

  The government has introduced the National Retraining Scheme alongside funding to tackle the UK’s growing tech skills gap, but will it be enough in the wake of artificial intelligence adoption?  Continue Reading

• Do non-compete clauses risk stifling cloud innovation?

  Non-compete clauses in tech employment contracts are commonplace – and understandably so – but could they be limiting innovation in the public cloud?  Continue Reading

• What is UK plc doing to address the tech skills gap in the face of Brexit?

  The growing technology skills gap in the UK is widely known, with firms complaining of a lack of skilled workers – but what are they doing fill their empty roles?  Continue Reading

• Interview: Tapping into the invisible talent pool

  As the technology talent gap grows, charity Astriid aims to help organisations connect with people who are chronically ill to meet some of their mutual needs  Continue Reading

• Cutting the cord: Negotiating cloud contracts with problematic customers

  How accountable should cloud firms be for the actions of the customers that use their platforms, and how much thought should they give to aligning themselves with problematic brands before hosting them?  Continue Reading

• Finding a fix for the IT industry's recruitment woes: A datacentre perspective

  The datacentre industry is in the midst of a well-documented skills crisis, caused by a mix of sector-specific challenges and some more generalised ones  Continue Reading

• Retailers engineer new ways to recruit and retain IT talent

  Senior leaders at Holland & Barrett, Feelunique and BrandAlley offer tips on finding and keeping sought-after engineering and developer talent  Continue Reading

• Employee activism: How staff revolts are shaking up the IT recruitment landscape

  As staff at tech giants Microsoft, Google and Amazon continue to speak out about pressing social issues, pressure is growing on firms to better align themselves with their employees on ethics  Continue Reading

• Interview: Rackspace EMEA CTO on why it pays to put people at the heart of IT transformation

  Rackspace EMEA CTO Lee James opens up about how taking a people-first approach to digital transformation raises staff morale and engagement levels while helping the managed cloud provider win new business  Continue Reading

• Rise in business-led IT spend increases risks and opportunities

  Digitally leading businesses benefit from faster time to market, better employee experience and improved finances, but lack of partnership between CIOs and business units can jeopardise progress, says Harvey Nash / KPMG survey  Continue Reading

• Regional differences in the UK’s computing curriculum

  Teaching young people about the importance of digital skills is a focus of the education system across the UK, but the delivery of these skills is different across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – who has it right?  Continue Reading

• How to find a much sought-after data scientist

  Every organisation seems to be hunting for a data scientist, but securing the right people with the right skills is a challenge  Continue Reading

• Career choices for storage admins as technologies converge

  There is collateral damage in datacentre convergence, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for storage administrators to stick with storage-centric skillsets. Two solutions exist  Continue Reading

• University vs Apprenticeship: The education debate

  Traditionally, a degree is the preferred route into the technology industry, but many now believe an apprenticeship may be a more valuable path into the sector  Continue Reading

• Gig for victory: Addressing the stigma of the gig economy

  As companies continue apace with digital transformation, the need for ad hoc tech workers is growing. But traditional contracting is giving way to the looser idea of ‘gigging’ – and not just for low-level roles  Continue Reading

• Interview: Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley: 'Scared silly' by Brexit

  Renowned entrepreneur and philanthropist Steve Shirley talks robots teaching children, and why Brexit has her “scared silly”  Continue Reading

• Spotlight on the Digital Career Institute, Berlin

  Digital Career Institute is teaching refugees and unemployed people to do web development in Germany  Continue Reading

• Is the UK’s computing curriculum too focused on coding?

  The government introduced its computing curriculum in 2014 to give young people the digital skills they need for the future, but is it fit for purpose?  Continue Reading

• DevOps done right: Securing grassroots support for a top-down DevOps enterprise push

  As more and more enterprises rush to join the DevOps movement, practitioners share details of how they secured grassroots support for their senior leadership team's top-down agile adoption mandates  Continue Reading

• UK technology recruitment: Turn on the talent

  The hottest tech skills will always be in short supply and UK businesses increasingly struggle to find competent people to fill digital roles. But do companies’ approach to recruitment need to change?  Continue Reading

• Assessing the disparate initiatives tackling the UK’s technology skills gap

  As the UK’s skills gap widens, initiatives aim to ensure the population has the skills needed for roles now and in the future, but are these disparate efforts helping or hindering the cause?  Continue Reading

• What are the retail jobs that don’t exist yet?

  As in many industries, technology and new consumer behaviour is changing the shape of retail. But what yet-to-be-created jobs are on the horizon for the sector?  Continue Reading

• Four CIO trends to watch in 2018

  As automation becomes more popular, bringing with it plenty of opportunities, 2018 is all about investing in in-house skills and innovation, with a focus on equality and flexibility  Continue Reading

• DevOps in the public sector: Assessing the challenges and the benefits

  Public sector IT leaders trying to transform the way their organisation works using DevOps talk about the challenges they face  Continue Reading

• How Southeast Asia is keeping pace with AI

  Forward-looking organisations in the region are embracing artificial intelligence, but uneven access to connectivity and a lack of skills and understanding of the technology are holding back wider adoption  Continue Reading

• Brexit uncertainty dominates UK’s digital conversation

  Uncertainty over the impact of Brexit dominated conversations at TechUK’s second annual Supercharging the Digital Economy event. Can technology really lessen the impact?  Continue Reading

• Malaysian women making their mark in IT

  There is no limit to what women can achieve in Malaysia’s IT industry, as a small but growing group of prominent women IT leaders in the country has found  Continue Reading

• Breaking the glass ceiling in IT

  The CIO of Malaysia’s Prince Court Medical Centre has broken the glass ceiling for women in technology in a 20-year career that has progressed from selling IT products to setting up her own IT consulting firm  Continue Reading

• From chemistry researcher to IT luminary

  Inspired by the potential of technology to change the world, Chong Yoke Sin went from calculating the strength of molecular bonds to driving one of Singapore’s biggest IT initiatives  Continue Reading

• How AI can aid, not replace, humans in recruitment

  Artificial intelligence is gaining prominence in a number of industries and brings advantages and disadvantages in the field of recruitment  Continue Reading

• The correlation between creativity, diversity and the future tech workforce

  Many believe the UK computing curriculum should put more emphasis on creativity to prepare young people for an automated future  Continue Reading

• Why and how men in the technology industry have helped women progress

  Many have argued gender parity will not happen in the technology industry without help from the top. Since the top is predominantly male, we’ve reached out to some of the men in the industry who are helping to drive tech equality  Continue Reading

• How will automation affect the IT skills gap?

  According to research, automation is putting some job roles at risk, but could it also be the answer to the growing IT skills gap?  Continue Reading

• BP stresses importance of apprentices to its DevOps and digital transformation plans

  BP explains why IT apprentices are central to the success of its agile and DevOps ambitions, as well as its wider digital transformation programme  Continue Reading

• Successful CIOs in 2017 will be those who look outwards

  CEOs increasingly want IT leaders who can look outside the IT department and improve wider perceptions of the organisation  Continue Reading

• CIOs must become hybrid IT and digital leaders to avoid becoming unfashionable

  It looked for a while that CDOs would replace CIOs, but organisations are realising that what they need is a mix of both roles  Continue Reading

• Lauri Love: the student accused of hacking the US

  How did a brilliant but fragile computer science student from a rural English town end up facing life imprisonment in the US? Computer Weekly speaks to Lauri Love  Continue Reading

• [email protected]: Women in technology – the shifting gender landscape

  As Computer Weekly celebrates its 50th anniversary, we look back on the great women who have made technology as well as the IT industry possible  Continue Reading

• Isle of Man: From seaside getaway to tech startup hub

  The Isle of Man government is stepping up efforts to position itself as the low-tax jurisdiction of choice for the startup community. But what's it like to do business there?  Continue Reading

• Why are telcos so readily adopting open standards for NFV?

  Communications services providers are lining up to make their future virtualised networks as open as possible. What’s the attraction?  Continue Reading

• Striving for a balanced mobile world: the Connected Women of MWC

  At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the GSMA’s Connected Women initiative began a new drive to connect more women in the developing world. Computer Weekly meets programme director Claire Sibthorpe  Continue Reading

• Acquire new skills for technology management

  The age of the customer requires organisations to focus on both the business technology and IT agendas  Continue Reading

• Netherlands uses female role models to encourage girls into IT industry

  The Netherlands needs to shake up its education system to attract more girls into IT, as only 10% of its IT workforce are women  Continue Reading

• Shining a light on the male mentors of IT

  Who are the male mentors encouraging the women in IT to succeed?  Continue Reading

• How George Osborne's latest tax changes affect IT contractors

  The government seems to be clamping down on taxation rules that affect IT contractors. Experts give their advice on what to do  Continue Reading

• NetSuite SuiteAcademy opens cloud doors in Europe

  NetSuite's SuiteAcademy programme is teaching students cloud computing skills to prepare them better for the workforce  Continue Reading

• How Ordnance Survey will use 250 years of data to support startups

  Ordnance Survey is embarking on a project to foster startups, applying its vast repository of data to solving emerging challenges around urban spaces and smart cities  Continue Reading

• Case study: City & Guilds skills up on Microsoft cloud to unite global workforce

  Vocational training organisation City & Guilds uses Microsoft's collaboration, video conferencing and productivity tools to keep its global workforce connected  Continue Reading

• Europe rallies together to solve digital skills crisis

  There have been several major announcements to develop skills and ensure the IT workforce adds to Europe’s economic value  Continue Reading

• Is it time to jump off the Windows bandwagon?

  The growth of user power has forced organisations to re-think IT strategies as employees demand mobility, collaboration and the latest technology  Continue Reading

• TUPE or not TUPE? That is the question

  Designed to enable employees and business units to be transferred from one owner to another, TUPE legislation is now 33 years old  Continue Reading

• Netherlands takes steps to become the startup-friendly 'West Coast of Europe'

  New immigration laws and Startup Delta’s Neelie Kroes propel Netherlands towards startup success  Continue Reading

• England's computing curriculum: How was the first term?

  Teachers’ confidence grows as the first term of the English computing curriculum goes down well with teaching staff and students  Continue Reading

• How the BBC became digital in three-and-a-half years

  The BBC has undergone a digital transformation that started 18 months prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games  Continue Reading

• Interview: Ed Vaizey MP talks digital economy and digital skills

  Minister for the digital economy Ed Vaizey discusses his new role and the future of digital policy  Continue Reading

• The wrong skills: Why are computing students unemployed?

  Students are finally taking an interest in computing careers – so why are so many unemployed?  Continue Reading

• CIO Interview: Gary Steen, CTO, TalkTalk

  Gary Steen, CTO at ISP TalkTalk, says transforming internal IT will help him meet growing demands for superfast data connectivity  Continue Reading

• Changing jobs mid-career: Digital is not just for the tech elite

  Computer Weekly attended a Free:Formers workshop to see how digital-skills barriers are being broken to open the sector to anyone  Continue Reading

• The UK’s new computing curriculum is here: Are teachers ready?

  The computing curriculum is finally commencing, so have teachers found the support they needed to prepare in time?  Continue Reading

• SAP User Group offers industry experience to Birmingham City University students

  Students at Birmingham City University are gaining industry experience through a link with the UK and Ireland SAP user group  Continue Reading

• Dame Stephanie Shirley: Entrepreneurs learn to survive

  Dame “Steve” Shirley shares her experiences of being an entrepreneurial woman in IT during the 1950s and 1960s  Continue Reading

• Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust secures government backing for £6m IT modernisation programme

  CIO interview: Joanna Smith, CIO. Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: How digital technology will change the way organisations work

  If you are an IT leader, digital technology is likely to be a pivotal factor in your career over the next five years  Continue Reading

• CW500 Security Club: The next threat landscape - what to expect

  The next threat landscape -- what to expect: IT security experts discuss the challenges facing organisations today  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: How digital technology will change the role of IT leaders

  We have now reached the point where corporate IT as we know it will succeed or fail  Continue Reading

• How to make the most of your annual appraisal

  Industry experts share their tips on how to make the dreaded annual appraisal successful and productive  Continue Reading

• Let’s not forget the computing curriculum’s bigger picture: Computational thinking

  Computing curriculum is about computational thinking and problem solving, not just coding/programming say education experts  Continue Reading