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• Career Watch: Sorting out the best developer candidates

  When two candidates look equally good on paper, how do you choose between them?

• Visa creating 800, seemingly well-paying, IT jobs in Austin

  Credit card issuer Visa USA plans to create a global IT center in Austin, Texas, and hire about 800 workers to run it.

• White House opposes GOP STEM visa bill, as heat rises

  The White House is all for the idea of a STEM visa, just not the one proposed in a bill proposed by House Republicans.

• Outlook for IT bonus pay murky: survey

  IT pros are divided when it comes to bonus expectations, according to tech jobs site Dice.com, and most believe company performance determines bonus payouts, not individual performance.

• The renaissance IT professional

  As technologies evolve, so must the skill sets of IT professionals. The IT department of the future will look dramatically different -- perhaps smaller -- and definitely with new capabilities.

• Facebook launches app to help users find jobs

  Facebook announced Wednesday that it's launching an app to help users find jobs.

• Pay gap, lack of role models to blame for ICT gender imbalance: EOWA

  The pay gap between women and men in ICT and the lack of senior female role models are the main reasons why young women are not taking up a career in ICT, according to Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA).

• 2013 IT salaries: 15 titles getting the biggest pay raises

  Mobile application developers and wireless network engineers can expect a 9% and 7.9% increase in starting salaries, respectively, says recruiting and staffing specialist Robert Half Technology.

• IT sector rebounds, gains 12,500 jobs in October

  The IT sector is back in growth mode, adding 12,500 jobs in October, according to U.S. employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• Gartner upbeat on Big Data jobs

  The economic picture that Gartner's head of research painted at his firm's recent Symposium/ITxpo conference was upbeat in a surprising way.

• GM plans to hire 3,000 HP IT workers

  Hewlett-Packard has agreed to transfer 3,000 of its employees to the General Motors payroll, as the automaker moves IT operations in-house

• Want a security pro? For starters, get politically incorrect and understand geek culture

  While complaints can be heard far and wide that it's hard to find the right IT security experts to defend the nation's cyberspace, the real problem in hiring security professionals is the roadblocks put up by lawyers and human resources personnel and a complete lack of understanding of geek culture, says security consultant Winn Schwartau.

• How to spot high performers, drivers of business: Hudson

  The increasing demand for IT to do more with less and help drive the business is redefining the skills that are needed to succeed in an IT career, according to the latest Hudson ICT Leaders Series report.

• Q&A: What's needed to get a big data job?

  The torrents of data produced by social networks, sensors, supply chains and every imaginable device are creating thousands of new jobs, as Michael Rappa projected when he created the first master's degree program in the U.S. that's devoted to data analytics.

• Killer resumes for techies

  If you have tech skills and experience, odds are you're going to get a call from an IT recruiter in 2012. That's because IT departments are <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/100411-sim-survey-251549.html">ramping up hiring</a> at the same time that more IT professionals are ready to leave behind employers offering flat salaries, limited flexibility and aging technology.