Tech job market coming back
Australia’s ICT job market has picked up over the past quarter with the market for new skills standing at its highest point for more than a year.
Australia’s ICT job market has picked up over the past quarter with the market for new skills standing at its highest point for more than a year.
Employers in healthcare and education have been the hungriest for ICT skills over the past three months, according to the latest Peoplebank Salary Survey.
Online education provider Open Universities Australia is in talks to initiate corporate partnerships with the likes of IBM, HP and other major IT companies in a bid to combat the declining number of qualified IT personnel in the Australian market.
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.
Contractors have left Canberra and the public sector behind as they seek higher pay in Sydney and Melbourne, according to the latest statistics from recruitment firm Peoplebank.
As the global financial crisis continues to bite and staff are laid off, the question of whether the recession presents an opportunity organisation to pick up some highly skilled workers at fire-sale prices has emerged.