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IT technical skills

• Thought for the day: Give youth a chance

  Companies are turning their backs on younger people because they have the skills but not the experience. Omar Sharif says there...  Continue Reading

• Pack your IT skills and head for the sun

  Working abroad seems tempting: more sun, better hours. But how practical is it? Sally Whittle says great opportunities exist for...  Continue Reading

• HP-UX still boasts exceptional reliability as users enter 64-bit era

  Hot skills: In the SSL/CW list of top skills, HP-UX is number 107.  Continue Reading

• All you need to know to find the best IT job

  The best companies, the prime locations and the hottest skills on the market.  Continue Reading

• Matchmaker event brings together would-be volunteers and charities in need of IT skills

  The recent IT Matchmaker event, the first to bring London-based charities face-to-face with potential IT professional volunteer...  Continue Reading

• Hot skills for the pick of IT jobs

  The first half of 2003 has been a great time for employers and tough for IT staff. Right now it’s very much a buyers' market,...  Continue Reading

• Internet drives demand for IT skills

  The growth of e-commerce continues to create the biggest job opportunities, according to the latest SSP/Computer Weekly Survey of Appointments Data and Trends  Continue Reading

• Develop skills in a buyer's market

  The IT jobs market has fallen over the edge of a cliff over the past two years. Now, there are signs that it has found its first...  Continue Reading

• Demand for CRM skills rises 19%

  In the SSP/CW list of top IT skills, CRM is number 35.  Continue Reading

• Next move: Where can a Cobol coder get new skills?

  I am an analyst programmer with 30 years' experience of Cobol and a variety of 4GL and report writer tools on a range of...  Continue Reading

• Good for business in any language

  .net is number 23 in the CW/SSP list of top IT skills  Continue Reading

• UK aims to give small firms a voice in Whitehall and boost number of IT staff

  A new government initiative aims to attract 40,000 more people to the IT industry E-Skills UK aims to give small firms a voice in...  Continue Reading

• Job seekers need to get smart in a tough market

  There is no prospect of a major rise in demand for IT skills, and job hunters must work hard to present themselves to employers...  Continue Reading

• IT skills: Ring in the new for 2002

  As the slowdown bites into the UK economy, the IT industry could be forgiven for feeling like a turkey. But as you will see from...  Continue Reading

• Hot skills for 2002

  IT's time to spice up your career with a fresh look at the skills you need to make the most of changing opportunities. Our...  Continue Reading

• Your Shout! What's all this about a skills shortage?

  Is there an IT skills shortage? In a recent Thought for the Day piece, CW360.com columnist Colin Beveridge asked to see the...  Continue Reading

• Skills: Aim wide to hit the target

  As the IT jobs slump continues, now is a good time to get your existing skills certificated or train to gain new ones - but not...  Continue Reading

• Why is the skills pool still dry after so many redundancies?

  Anyone who is looking for staff with specific IT skills will disagree with the Government and a contractors' group which claim...  Continue Reading

• IT skills shortages persist despite economic slowdown

  The latest E-skills UK survey of IT in the UK describes an industry battening down the hatches to survive a long haul, and still...  Continue Reading

• Next move: How can I develop my Java skills?

  I have worked in IT for 12 years, and currently work for an insurance company. The major skills involved are Powerbuilder,...  Continue Reading

• Are IT employers asking too much?

  Many IT workers believe employers are increasingly asking for an unrealistically large number of skills in the people they take...  Continue Reading

• Communication skills: Speech therapy

  Frustrated by constantly having your infrastructure projects shelved? Then you probably need to learn to justify the project...  Continue Reading

• DfES puts Disability Group magazine in online centres

  The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) is backing a new online version of the BCS Disability Group's magazine by...  Continue Reading

• The skills gamble

  ITers are only as good as their skill sets but knowing what skill will be most wanted in six months' time is a constant guessing...  Continue Reading

• Low pay puts pressure on e-government targets

  Concern about pay and the impact of the skills shortage on e-government are two of the main themes emerging from this year's...  Continue Reading

• Bring on the brokers

  Selling the role of IT to the business can be a headache for systems managers who lack business skills. What you need are...  Continue Reading

• South African looking for UK work

  My problem, besides being on a working visa, is that employers seem to look down on my qualifications because my experience is non-UK.  Continue Reading

• Life's little luxuries

  Despite the fact that the IT industry is shedding staff right, left and centre, there remains a skills shortage and companies are...  Continue Reading

• Worklink helps employers find the IT skills they need

  A service that matches employers with undergraduates seeking work placements has gone live on the BCS Web site, writes John...  Continue Reading

• Consultancy forum highlights skills gap

  A skills gap between system development and IT consultancy has been highlighted by the first meeting of the new BCS Consultancy...  Continue Reading

• Beef up your soft skills to land the best IT jobs

  So called "soft skills" such as people management and interpersonal communication used to get short shrift in the IT world....  Continue Reading

• Find a new skills pool to fish in

  Women and late entrants to the IT sector have great potential for closing the skills gap, but employers will first have to shake...  Continue Reading

• Technology: Get the right staff

  With the e-commerce sector still overshadowed by a skills shortage, Danny Bradbury details how you can get the staff you need -...  Continue Reading

• How can I use management skills?

  I have worked in IT support for a couple of years. I have a degree in computer science and over 10 years' experience as a...  Continue Reading

• A penguin on the radar

  There has been a sharp downturn in demand for IT skills.  Continue Reading

• Strategy clinic: I want to use my maths skills

  After graduating with a maths degree I joined British Airways' graduate scheme. After three years, mostly doing mainframe work -...  Continue Reading

• Communication becomes a key skill for techies

  The days of the backroom techie are long gone. With IT now integral to all large businesses, communication skills have become a...  Continue Reading

• Employers' failure to train perpetuates skills shortage

  High-tech employers are perpetuating the skills shortage by failing to cross-train experienced IT staff in e-commerce skills, it...  Continue Reading

• Industry giants sign up to e-skills charter

  Twelve leading IT employers this week pledged urgent action to tackle the growing shortage of IT professionals.  Continue Reading

• Talking loud on skills

  The ICT business think-tank the Real-Time Club hosted a "working dinner" last week to discuss the recommendations which the...  Continue Reading

• Europe faces massive skills shortfall

  Europe faces an ICT skills shortfall of massive proportions which the region's educational systems will be unable to fill, says...  Continue Reading

• Bottom of the class

  Most people quit the education system utterly lacking in the IT skills so badly needed by business. Kris Sangani investigates...  Continue Reading

• India's stars rise as dot-coms sink

  Despite the dot-com gloom, Silicon Valley is still hungry for skills. Stephen Phillips in San Francisco reports  Continue Reading

• On course to a Java job

  With Java still the hottest programming skill on the market, we meet some Java trainees from a variety of professional backgrounds and ask them about their learning experiences  Continue Reading

• Stopping the skills shortfall

  Employment minister claims UKmoves to tackle e-skills shortages are a model for the EU  Continue Reading

• Silicon Valley looks East

  "Cross border sourcing" is gaining in popularity in the US where an expanding skills vacuum has led Silicon Valley businesses to...  Continue Reading

• Take a break to fight poverty with IT skills

  Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is crying out for IT professionals to work on an increasing number of IT projects around the...  Continue Reading

• A lack of skills is all that will hold us back

  Advances in software, data storage and microelectronics will be held back not by the limits of physics, materials or ingenuity...  Continue Reading

• E-skills battle plan for UK plc

  "Unsustainable" shortage of IT staff could damage the UK's e-commerce growth. Bill Goodwin reports  Continue Reading

• Make IT an election issue

  IMIS calls for government to address the growing IT skills shortage as UK companies relocate overseas  Continue Reading

• Skills gap to slow Europe's e-development

  Workplace Net users in Europe will rise to 77 million by 2004. But there are not enough skilled IT staff to let Europe's...  Continue Reading

• E skills for the future?

  Jane Dudman explains how young people in Newham have the chance to be apprentices in a scheme to lessen the blow of the IT skills...  Continue Reading

• A thoroughly modern e-apprenticeship

  Jane Dudman explains how young people in Newham have the chance to be apprentices in a scheme to lessen the blow of the IT skills...  Continue Reading

• Legacy skills still in demand

  
  
  Ross Bentley

  The dwindling number of job advertisements for legacy skills belies the need for old-world skills in the brave new world of...

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• Skills shortages: learning to get rid of the vicious circle

  Computer telephony integration is here and so is the skills shortage. Nick Langley examines what the industry and Government are...  Continue Reading

• Catch the job get the right skills

  With the rapid growth in specialised IT programming skills, which one should you gun for? Nicholas Enticknap reports  Continue Reading

• Web skills are where it's at

  The e-business savvy programmer is a far cry from the techies of old. Jane Dudman introduces the millennial programmer  Continue Reading

• Women still shun IT

  Skills: As skills shortages bite, IT industry stereotypes still ring true.  Continue Reading

• ITers' ageist employment fears

  
  
  Bill Goodwin

  Revelations in Computer Weekly that IT employers are exacerbating the skills shortage by ignoring older workers...

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• Convergence leads to skills gap incomms

  New network technologies and mobile devices are altering the telecoms skills market at an exponential rate and staff can benefit...  Continue Reading

• PC in IT: attracting staff from outside the sector

  Shortages of IT skills are attracting people into the sector from different walks of life. Guy Campos meets a former policeman...  Continue Reading

• Ageism fuels skills gap

  Employers are cutting their own throats in the long run by discriminating against older ITers  Continue Reading

• Demand for web skills rises

  
  
  Demand for ITers skilled in internet technologies such as HTML, XML and Perl is continuing to rise, according to research released by IT recruitment...  Continue Reading

• IT joins club 18 - 30

  
  
  While business development in the UK continues to feel the effects of a worsening IT skills shortage, new evidence suggests that the IT industry itself may...  Continue Reading

• Are mainframe skills redundant?

  
  
  I have 11 years' experience as an MVS (IBM mainframe) systems programmer and experience in storage management, SNA networks and systems programming. I...  Continue Reading

• CRM held back by skills dearth

  Customer Relationship Management implementations are being thwarted by a lack of IT workers with the relevant skills, says a...  Continue Reading

• I want to be a MS Office 2000 trainer

  I would like to gain the skills to be able to train other users or provide technical support in the area of MS Office 2000. I am...  Continue Reading

• Java skills demand hits all-time high

  Employers look to Asia to fill posts while staff command high salaries - especially when they have business knowledge, reports...  Continue Reading

• Employment growth hits a two-year high

  Employment growth has hit a two-year high, with skills shortages continuing to impact on the IT sector, according to the latest...  Continue Reading

• Lorien backs on-line jobs exchange

  On-line information exchange TheSkillsMarket, has joined forces with IT resourcing firm, Lorien in an initiative aimed at...  Continue Reading

• Web development skills in demand

  
  
  Growth in demand for permanent and contract IT staff is levelling off but is still holding at its highest point for almost two years, according to the...  Continue Reading

• RPG plus skills are still in demand

  Duncan Abbott has, he says, specialised in AS/400 recruitment ever since Dr Frank's wunderkind first trundled off the production line; he even considered calling his company Silverlake, settling only at the final moment for the catchier monicker ...  Continue Reading

• Framework to find lost IT skills

  The Skills Framework for the Information Age aims to create the IT profession's first industry-wide definition of the skills needed by IT employers at every level in an organisation  Continue Reading

• Team building: are you some kind of comedian?

  Forget outward-bound courses: if team building and communication skills are your goal, a comedy workshop is just the ticket....  Continue Reading

• Employers opt for staff with e-talent

  E-commerce boom is fuelling demand for staff with internet and web-related skills  Continue Reading

• Time to pay

  Contractors are now subject to the IR35 tax laws, and price rises and skills shortages loom, Bill Goodwin report  Continue Reading

• South Africa fills skills gap

  
  
  Bill Goodwin

  Telecoms firm Energis has been forced to look overseas for its IT and telecoms experts, after failing to find suitable...

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• Look to disabled to ease skills shortage

  Microsoft is to encourage more disabled people to take the Microsoft Office User Specialist (Mous) exam following the pioneering...  Continue Reading

• Shortage of Net skills could hamper UK growth

  The huge boom in the Internet marketplace is good news for UK companies. However, as Mark Vernon discovered, a skills shortage...  Continue Reading

• Employers go for graduates as skills crisis takes effect

  Research shows growing awareness of need to train IT staff as vacancies stay unfilled. Bill Goodwin reports on changes in...  Continue Reading

• Calls on Brown to plug IT skills gap

  The Chancellor is under pressure from IT users and suppliers to take radical steps to ease the UK's skills shortage  Continue Reading

• Skills crisis set to hit Europe

  Bill Goodwin looks at the impending IT skills slump and asks what IT directors and companies can do to make sure they attract the...  Continue Reading

• Women can solve the skills shortage in IT

  During the 1960s, 42% of the computer industry was made up of female workers.  Continue Reading

• How to keep staff

  
  
  How do small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) attract the right people, skills and mindset, and then ensure these critical resources are trained, and...  Continue Reading

• Web reshapes IT's workforce

  Skills strategists must run fast to stand still  Continue Reading

• Jobs: Internet skills buck the trend as demand trails in 1999

  The IT recruitment market continued to drop in the run-up to the millennium, but e-business and Internet skills bucked the trend, according to our exclusive SSP survey  Continue Reading

• How to prevent a staff exodus

  To avoid a stampede of qualified staff to greener pastures, try rewarding individual skills rather than branding everyone with...  Continue Reading

• We should be chasing people, not skills

  By focusing on skills, IT departments are delivering grey people into grey jobs for grey organisations. We need to get some "big...  Continue Reading

• It staff need better interpersonal skills

  Are you the ideal IT staffer? Rob McLuhan uncovers the rising demand for interpersonal skills within the coding community  Continue Reading