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IT jobs and recruitment

January 28, 2009 28 Jan'09
Investment banks' IT recruitment falls less than the rest

Investment banks account for more than a third of new IT job vacancies in the financial services sector despite major cutbacks.
January 28, 2009 28 Jan'09
SAP cuts 3,000 jobs

The mixed results from SAP, and poor outlook for 2009 has prompted the enterprise resource planning (ERP) company to cut 3000 jobs and freeze salaries.
January 27, 2009 27 Jan'09
Texas Instruments axes 3,400 staff after sales and profits plummet

Texas Instruments is axing 3,400 staff after posting an annual 30% decrease in sales and a 95% fall in operating profits for its fourth quarter.
January 27, 2009 27 Jan'09
IT firms plan bigger staff cuts than other sectors

Technology and media firms plan to make more substantial staffing cuts than companies in other sectors.

January 26, 2009 26 Jan'09
Unisys cuts 1,300 jobs, 160 in UK, says union

Unisys is planning to cut 1,300 jobs this year, with 160 going in the UK, according to the union Unite.
January 26, 2009 26 Jan'09
Intel chairman Craig Barrett retires

Intel chairman Craig Barrett will retire in May at the company's annual shareholders' meeting.
January 26, 2009 26 Jan'09
ING to cut 7000 jobs

Dutch bank ING is planning to cut 7000 jobs as it attempts to save €1bn.
January 26, 2009 26 Jan'09
'Timing sucks' for London banking IT training centre

The government and major banks are backing an IT training centre that will produce up to 20 PhD students specialised in financial services computing.
January 23, 2009 23 Jan'09
Average Advertised IT Salaries - by year

This is a table showing the advertiused salaries of different roles of IT Professsionals in the UK from Q4 2006 - 2008.
January 23, 2009 23 Jan'09
Yahoo freezes staff pay

Yahoo is freezing staff pay this year in response to the recession.

January 23, 2009 23 Jan'09
Axa move 1900 staff to Capita

A total of 1900 staff in the UK and India will transfer to UK IT outsourcing service provider Capita from insurer Axa as part of a £500m deal.
January 23, 2009 23 Jan'09
Government starts search for ID card commissioner

The government has begun the hunt for an independent commissioner to oversee the national identity card scheme.

Advertising the post in the Sunday...
January 23, 2009 23 Jan'09
IBM makes job cuts despite buoyant Q4 results

IBM workers are shocked at job cuts announced straight after the company issued glowing fourth quarter financial results, says employee union [email protected]
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
The UK recession: Impact on the IT sector

The credit crunch has taken its time to spread beyond financial services out into the rest of the UK IT sector, but the latest research shows all areas are being hit hard.
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
Transferred Friends Provident IT staff could face chop

T he 200 Friends Provident I T workers that are transfe r ring to IBM, as part of the firm's £200m outsourcing deal with IBM , will...
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
Women must ask for pay rises to fight IT gender gap

Women in IT must ask for more money if they are going to overcome the gender pay gap, career coach Julia Thrul has said.
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
IBM employees expect 16,000 job cuts

IBM has started laying-off staff in the wake of its announcement of strong fourth quarter financial results, a union website has reported.
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
UK's top 20 most wanted IT skills for permanent staff

This table lists the IT skills in most demand for permanent staff in Q4 2008 in the UK by number of vacancies advertised.
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
Average paid salaries in the UK for IT jobs by job roles

Below are figures for average paid salaries for IT roles in the UK, in the fourth quarter of 2008.
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
CIOs failing to market themselves, survey finds

Most CIOs are failing to market their achievements effectively even though most see it as essential to their careers.
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
Intel to close chip plants, 6,000 jobs losses expected

Intel is to close two chip manufacturing plants and two test facilities by the end of the year, with up to 6,000 job losses expected.
January 21, 2009 21 Jan'09
UK's IT job vacancies by industry sector

Table giving the number of UK IT job vacancies by industry sector.
January 21, 2009 21 Jan'09
SAP and SaaS key to jobs market

SAP and software-as-a-service (SaaS) will remain strong areas of employment in 2009.

Alex Farrell, managing director of The IT Job Board, predicts...
January 21, 2009 21 Jan'09
Ericsson makes another 5,000 redundant despite solid quarter

Ericsson is making another 5,000 staff redundant as part of a $1.2bn cost reduction programme, despite reporting better than expected fourth quarter results.
January 20, 2009 20 Jan'09
IBM job cut announcement imminent

IBM is expected to announce thousands of US job cuts , either along with fourth quarter results due out later today or within the next few days. IBM's...
January 19, 2009 19 Jan'09
IT vacancies decline by 24% in three months

The number of job vacancies in the IT sector fell by nearly a quarter in the last three months of 2008, according to the latest research by SSL and Computer Weekly.
January 19, 2009 19 Jan'09
CIOs failing to build personal brands, survey finds

Most CIOs are failing to...
January 19, 2009 19 Jan'09
AMD makes another 1,100 staff redundant

AMD is axing another 1,100 jobs - around 9% of its 12,000 workforce - to further reduce its costs in a worsening market. In addition, senior management...
January 19, 2009 19 Jan'09
Nortel UK bankruptcy threatens staff pensions

The UK pension fund of Nortel Networks is bust, threatening the pensions of 43,000 current and former employees of the Canadian company.

Nortel was...
January 19, 2009 19 Jan'09
Cisco CTO in frame to be appointed first US CTO by Obama

Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior is in the frame to be appointed the US' first CTO by president-elect Barack Obama.
January 16, 2009 16 Jan'09
Government tax breaks needed on IT training to survive recession

The government should introduce tax credits for the IT industry as businesses in the sector call for more money to train their workers, according to...
January 15, 2009 15 Jan'09
Barclays cuts more jobs

Barclays Bank has announced 2,100 job cuts, which include IT roles, in its retail and commercial business a day after news of the same number being cut...
January 15, 2009 15 Jan'09
Google axes 100 recruitment staff

Google is axing about 100 recruitment staff as the recession continues to hit leading IT firms. Google had already decided to slow the number of hirings...
January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09
Fujitsu Services UK chief executive quits

Fujitsu Services UK chief executive Dave Courtley has resigned. Executive chairman Richard Christou has taken hold of the reins while a search for a successor...
January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09
Brits help crash tropical island caretaker jobsite

A website offering the chance to be a £70,000 caretaker on a tiny tropical island in Australia has crashed, after sparking so many applicants - a quarter of them British.
January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09
London councils save cash with shared grid student comms

London Grid for Learning (LGfL), a consortium of all London's local authorities, has launched Microsoft [email protected] network services for up to one million students...
January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09
HMRC advertises for £205,000 CIO

HM Revenue & Customs has advertised for a new CIO at up to £205,000 a year.

The new CIO will replace Steve Lamey, now HMRC director general for benefits...
January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09
Nortel files for bankruptcy protection

Network and telecoms equipment manufacturer Nortel Networks has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States, according to Reuters.
January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09
Becta launches school IT progress scheme

Schools learning agency Becta has launched a new technology charter to help schools join the digital revolution. Every school in the country is being...
January 14, 2009 14 Jan'09
Barclays UK investment banking IT jobs hang in the balance

Barclays is planning another 2100 global redundancies in its investment banking businesses . T he UK and London are set to see...
January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09
Manufacturers may lose thousands of IT jobs

Thousands of IT jobs in the manufacturing sector are at risk despite the sector outperforming the rest of the economy, a manufacturers' association says. Leading...
January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09
Oracle making 'up to 8,000' redundant

Oracle is said to be making almost 10% of its worldwide staff of 84,000 redundant. The unconfirmed reports say jobs are going worldwide, with job losses...
January 12, 2009 12 Jan'09
New board at Satyam following chairman's arrest

India's government has imposed a board of directors to stabili s e troubled Indian IT services supplier
January 09, 2009 09 Jan'09
Video: Satyam senior executives outline plans

Satyam’s senior executives held an emergency conference on Wednesday to outline their plans following the turmoil created by the discovery of a $1bn fraud at the Indian IT service provider.
January 09, 2009 09 Jan'09
HMRC appoints ex-Tesco CIO to board

Colin Cobain, a former chief information officer at Tesco, has joined HM Revenue & Customs as a non-executive director.

Cobain was CIO at Tesco until...
January 09, 2009 09 Jan'09
Tech sector job cuts could signal end-user gains

Technology suppliers are slashing thousand of jobs around the globe as they go into economic survival mode. Chinese computer maker Lenovo started 2009...
January 08, 2009 08 Jan'09
New ideas wanted for increasing diversity in IT

Rebecca George is approaching the problem of the gender balance in the IT industry in a new way. It is not just women who are alienated by IT's traditional working culture, she says, but young men too, and something needs to change if the sector is ...
January 08, 2009 08 Jan'09
Video: Marks and Spencer whistleblower remains defiant

Tony Goode, former customer database manager at Marks & Spencer, has few regrets about blowing the whistle on the retailer's plans to cut redundancy payments, even though it cost him his job.
January 08, 2009 08 Jan'09
US Congress urged to invest $30bn in IT infrastructure

The US Congress is being urged by an IT thinktank to allocate $30bn to IT infrastructure this year to create or retain nearly 1 million jobs.

President-elect...
January 08, 2009 08 Jan'09
Dell to axe 1,900 jobs in Ireland

Dell is transferring its European PC manufacturing from Ireland to Poland to cut costs, in a move that will see 1,900 assembly plant workers in Limerick...