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• Australian ICT job market on the mend

  New financial year budgets, combined with 18 months worth of economic recovery are expected create an uptick in the ICT jobs market, recruitment firm Hays argues.

• Two top ICT researchers to get over $2m each

  Two of Australia’s leading ICT researchers will receive more than $2 million each in funding from the Federal Government as part of the Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme.

• IT résumés: Think twice about the advice you've been given

  Recruiters, professional résumé writers and other career experts give out tons of advice on how best to write a résumé that will stand out from the competition. Their intentions are noble - they want to help people land jobs - but the problem with their advice is that it doesn't always apply to IT professionals and the nature of the work they do, says Shana Westerman, a recruiting manager with IT staffing firm Sapphire Technologies.

• Job-hopping the key to a 'razor sharp global career'

  Businesses must be flexible and provide alternative career paths for their employees in order to survive the current skills drought.

• In Brief: Mitsubishi Electric appoints new MD

  Mitsubishi Electric Australia has appointed Kotaro Yamanaka as its new managing director.

• CIOs who took an alternative route to the top

  A high school physics teacher. A hockey coach and referee. An intern at the National Science Foundation.

• More promotion needed to fix IT gender imbalance: CIO

  Getting the word out that IT is an ideal career path for women is the best way to reverse the wide gender imbalance, says a female CIO.

• Gender imbalance IT's "white elephant"

  Males outweigh females in the IT industry by a factor of more than three to one, according to statistics released by recruiting firm Greythorn.

• ICT jobs outpace wider jobs market in May

  The Australian job market has shown its resilience in the face of tough global economic conditions, recording a 5.47 per cent increase in the number of job ads run during May.

• Oracle to lay off more Sun workers

  Oracle is making further job cuts related to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, primarily in Europe and Asia, the company said in a regulatory filing Friday.

• HP tight-lipped on local cuts

  HP Australia has declined to comment on the number of local staff expected to be shed under recently announced global job cuts.

• HP job cuts point to shifting IT skills

  Hewlett-Packard Co. today said it is cutting 9,000 jobs, but also plans to hire 6,000 new workers as part of shift to highly automated data centers that rely less on people with hands-on IT skills and more on those with sales and delivery expertise.

• CeBIT 2010: Government CIO pushes for in-house IT workforce

  The CIO of the federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Glen Archer, has admitted there are fewer places for IT contractors in Canberra, but stopped short of saying there in a new skills crisis in the nation's capital.

• Microsoft departures shake up entertainment group

  Two longtime Microsoft Entertainment and Devices division executives are leaving the company in a move that will give CEO Steve Ballmer more control over the group.

• Cultivating a healthy addiction for career success

  In the Career Compass program, the initial exercise focuses on identifying and distilling five key elements that differentiate the participant from others. The purpose is to move beyond standard statements to unearth what really sets each of us apart. It is preparation to successfully respond to a general question of "Why should I hire you?"