Microsoft traineeship program expands into South Australia
A Microsoft Australia IT trainee program will expand into South Australia this September after receiving $200,000 in funding from the state government.
A Microsoft Australia IT trainee program will expand into South Australia this September after receiving $200,000 in funding from the state government.
A firm which helps military veterans find technology and cyber security roles is now working with large companies to help them reskill existing workforces and stop cycles of ‘fire and rehire’.
Labor says that if it wins the federal election it will invest $2 million in a TAFE cyber security training centre at Broadmeadows in Melbourne.
The University of Queensland (UQ) is launching a new quantum technology masters program, which it says is the “first of its kind” in Australia.
Monash University has launched a coding bootcamp, offering participants the chance to “become a web developer in 24 weeks”.
Five organisations have signed up to the government’s pilot Global Talent Scheme (GTS) program, launched in July in a bid to make it easier for big business and tech start-ups to hire overseas talent for highly skilled roles.
The 1200 new jobs will significantly increase the company’s local headcount, which currently stands at 4400.
A shortage of IT professionals in the region is driving ‘unsustainable’ wage growth and leaving smaller firms unable to compete for talent, says a report from tech role recruiter Halcyon Knights
More than half of the 3,000 Australian organisations surveyed by Hays in its latest Jobs Report say they intend to increase IT headcounts within the next six months.
The head of a major UK government initiative to upskill thousands of public servants is on her way to Australia to share her skills with the federal government.
Former Holden car manufacturing workers are set to become the country’s latest tech experts thanks to a new initiative launched by Microsoft Australia.
Australian TAFEs will this year offer "hands-on-keyboard" qualifications in cyber security, in response to the huge demand for skilled professionals coming from industry and government.
As cyber security becomes an increasingly important issue for Australian organisations, many are finding themselves hamstrung by a lack of qualified staff. Skilled security experts are proving hard to find and the rising salary expectations resulting from this scarcity is putting them out of reach for small and mid-sized firms.
Specialist recruitment firm Hays is employing artificial intelligence to accelerate the screening of candidates.
Australian organisations continue to struggle to overcome the skills gap in the IT industry. With new disciplines emerging all the time, such as big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence, the skills shortage will only get worse if the industry doesn’t act now to address it.