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• Tech workers gain confidence as employment prospects lift

  Confidence levels among IT workers improved in the second quarter, buoyed by reports of employment gains in the U.S. tech sector.

• IT résumé makeover: Make your messaging clear

  Whether you work in IT or any competitive field, a résumé that doesn't quickly illustrate who you are, what you do and why an employer needs you will be summarily dismissed.

• Tax law may keep Australian startups from hiring 'quality talent'

  Australian tax rules may stunt growth of startups and push them out of the country, according to the Norton Rose law firm and a survey by Deloitte.

• Five tips to find and hire data scientists

  Data scientists are in demand in this era of big data. IT hiring managers, however, are struggling in their search for qualified candidates (as even the candidates themselves may not realise they are a fit for the role). Here are five ways you can recruit data scientists.

• Diversity in IT Is About Business Objectives

  Tech insiders stress the value of broadening the IT talent pool for tech startups, starting with amplifying the message that IT is universal and 'tech is in everything.'

• Seven steps to happy hires with long-term potential

  Here are 7 lessons on hiring staff that you can use to build your own homegrown talent pool

• The CIO's lament: 20-something techies who quit after 1 year

  Louis Trebino, CIO and senior vice president at the <a href="http://www.harryfox.com/index.jsp">Harry Fox Agency</a> (HFA) in New York City, is experiencing significant turnover on his Web development team.

• Can you keep your IT staff in 2012?

  IT staff retention is shaping up to be one of the biggest challenges facing CIOs in 2012.

• Bold hiring strategies from fearless CIOs

  Everyone's afraid. You can't read an article, watch a news broadcast or speak to another human being without tasting the fear. We all may agree that we'd be stupid not to be cautious, but smart leaders are working to mitigate fear and move their organizations forward.

• A Law Firm's Hiring Strategies for Handling New Security Concerns

  As CIO and managing director of Morrison and Foerster-ranked among the 50 largest law firms in the world by revenue-Neeraj Rajpal is responsible for implementing strategic and tactical global IT and for managing records initiatives for the firm's 1,200 lawyers in 16 global offices.

• Three creative ways to add talent to your team

  I recently interviewed dozens of CIOs about their hiring concerns and was left amazed. Not by their revelations, but by their level of frustration.

• Four emerging positions CIOs need to fill

  As someone with a mild-to-moderate addiction to Bare Escentuals cosmetics, I have to admit that my heart skipped a beat while reading Kim Nash's cover story ("Four Kinds of IT Professionals CIOs Need to Hire Now").

• Virtualization and cloud computing hiring outlook for 2011

  Despite so many optimistic predictions from Gartner, IDC and other surveys about the growth of cloud computing that they're almost an industry in themselves, there's no better indication of real interest from real companies than spending on a new technology.

• BYOT: Hype or a hiring dealbreaker?

  Bring Your Own Technology, or BYOT, can strike fear in the hearts of CIOs and security officers, who are split on whether the concept is an urban legend or the wave of the future. Regardless, the CIOs I've spoken with say it has not yet become a standard question that applicants ask. Sure, there are CEOs and salespeople who want to sneak tablets onto the network, but at this point, the roar of the consumers is really just a whisper.

• Paying top dollar for tech talent pays off

  In the early 1990s, before the browser and search wars, Bill Gates was asked to identify Microsoft's biggest competitor. His answer was a surprise: "Goldman Sachs."