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• Study: IT skills pay drops slightly overall in Q1

  A new study shows that pay for IT skills fell by 0.5 percent overall during the first three months of this year, but also that some 46 skills rose in value.

• Workplace wiki a wakeup for uni book-smarts

  A new online wiki project developed by the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) is helping to better prepare university graduates for the workforce.

• IT job ads, vacancies down in March: Survey

  The IT job market fell 15 percent in March, crashing to the level of 2005 and down by 53 per cent on the same time last year, according to the Olivier Job Index.

• Network skills in demand, pay well in down economy

  IT executives polled separately by IT staffing and consultancy firm Robert Half Technology and staffing firm Bluewolf revealed that the need for specific IT skills doesn't lessen because the economy is bad. Robert Half Technology surveyed 1,400 CIOs about their hiring plans for the second quarter (8 percent intend to add staff) and discovered the skills considered most in demand right now.

• Wall Street's losses may be computer science's gain

  The collapse of Wall Street may help make computer science and other IT careers attractive to students who abandoned those fields in droves after the dot-com bust of 2001.