In Depth

In Depth

IT technical skills

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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