IT careers and IT skills
IT professionals increasingly need to take responsibility for ensuring that their IT skills are kept up-to-date, and for pursuing opportunities that will develop their IT careers. We examine the issues around career development at all stages of an IT professional's working life, from education through to training and recruitment.
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Opinion
17 Dec 2025
The grey door: Solving the UK’s self-inflicted skills shortage
Age discrimination has led to a significant loss of experience, leadership and technical capability in a sector chronically complaining of skills shortages. What can be done to reverse the trend? Continue Reading
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Opinion
17 Dec 2025
Tech community must play a part in closing the employment gap for blind and sight-impaired people
Tech and digital leaders have a vital role to play in making technology more usable and inclusive for sight-impaired people - boosting their employment and supporting the economy Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Mar 2004
Achieving the goal of CIO
What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading
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News
15 Dec 2003
IT staff predict e-government success despite councillors’ doubts
Tony Blair has failed to convince councillors in almost half of the UK’s local authorities of the value of e-government. Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Mar 2003
What's in an IT name?
What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job... Continue Reading
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News
14 Feb 2002
Industry recruits wrong people
UK industry could be recruiting candidates with the wrong personality type to be a success in IT. Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Jan 2002
Scale 21 conference will reveal key to IT success
The results of the largest ever survey of IT professionals and entrepreneurs are to be announced at the Building Britain's... Continue Reading
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News
27 Sep 2001
Infineon claims cost-cutting success
Semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies is claiming progress in its plan to cut costs by £630m over the next year, but... Continue Reading
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News
11 Sep 2001
Mitsubishi Electric looks to earnings revision
Mitsubishi Electric has described as "speculative" reports in a Japanese newspaper that the company is intending to reduce its... Continue Reading
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News
22 Aug 2001
IT spending will rise faster than inflation
Although suppliers may be shedding IT jobs, corporate users still plan to spend an extra 11% on permanent staff this year - five... Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Feb 2001
Feeling the pinch
The Internet age is not over just because a few dotcoms have run into difficulty, says Martin Butler, who believes that the... Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Feb 2001
Window of the world
Going online means going global. So why do so many companies give their website less consideration than other areas of the... Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Feb 2001
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
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Feature
10 Jan 2001
The world is enough
As a global business, IT offers managers and directors many opportunities to work abroad and, as Julia Vowler finds out, these... Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Jan 2001
Delivering digital streaming in the Real world
While the fortunes of streaming media firm Real Networks have been in decline, the company is not taking it lying down, writes... Continue Reading
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News
30 Nov 2000
Armed forces morale hit by Chinook say MPs
MPs said yesterday that the Government's refusal to move on the Public Accounts Committee report on the 1994 Chinook crash was hitting armed forces morale.... Continue Reading -
Feature
29 Nov 2000
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
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News
25 Oct 2000
IT man on the 5am ferry as Horizon reaches Orkney
James RogersPost Offices in two of the most isolated parts of the UK are the latest to go live as part of the Horizon counter...
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