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• Forecast 2010: 6 hottest skills for 2010

  Pent-up demand for new projects. Veteran employees leaving the company. Who could complain about such pressures in the waning months of 2009, when the year was spent under a cloud of economic misery?

• The Truth About CIO Tenure

  Conventional wisdom has long held that CIOs should never say "Wait until next year," because that year often doesn't come for them. Everyone knows that CIO stands for Chief Information Officer, but in the early 1990s, it stood for something disparaging--"Career Is Over"--due to their purported brief tenures (two to three years, we were told).

• Job search scams: Protect yourself against identity theft

  As unemployment has increased, so too has the number of job search scams identity theft rings are perpetrating against desperate job seekers.

• Industry body forming to address IT graduate skills

  A pilot group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is months away from creating a global IT education-focused body to address the needs of the industry.

• IT hiring spree in sight as contractors lead the way

  While the last three months has seen flat IT employment levels, a rise in contractor hiring across Australia has contributed to very early signs of green shoots of recovery in the sector, according to IT recruitment firm Peoplebank.

• 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.

• 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.

• Who You Gonna Hire?

  The hottest jobs in IT are for business, architecture and policy experts.

• IT Jobs Market Down But Not Out

  Some online job boards are seeing a steep decline in the number of IT jobs employers and recruiters are posting. The good news for your IT career? Executives at these job boards don't anticipate IT unemployment and job losses to be nearly as bad as 2001 and 2002.

• 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.