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• Event fosters software and STEM entrepreneurs for education

  Weekend hackathons for developers have been around for years. Now they are popping up everywhere.

• IT jobs outlook: High demand, higher salaries

  With the <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/2872701/it-jobs/hiring-streak-stays-hot-for-tech-pros.html">hot job market for technology professionals</a>, it is not surprising that salaries are up, too  though only a bit.

• 5 minutes a week to advance your career

  The New Year is always a good time to reflect on your career: where you've been, where you're heading, and where you'd like to go. It's also the traditional time for people like me -- industry analysts, pundits and consultants -- to tell you what hot skills you'll need to develop to advance your career in the next year. Of course, if developing your career were really that simple, every reader would be the CEO of a company by now.

• Full-time IT hiring is gaining ground, finally

  The end of the year is sometimes seen as an ideal time to find a new job. You pick up your year-end bonus, enjoy the holiday parties, and then plot your exit for something new.

• How automation could take your skills -- and your job

  Nicholas Carr's essay <em>IT Doesn't Matter</em> in the Harvard Business Review in 2003, and the later book, argued that IT is shifting to a service delivery model comparable to electric utilities. It produced <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2571616/it-management/it-does-so-matter-.html">debate and defensiveness</a> among IT managers over the possibility that they were sliding to irrelevancy. It's a debate that has yet to be settled. But what <em>is</em> clear is that Carr has a talent for raising timely questions, and he has done so again in his latest work <em>The Glass Cage, Automation and Us</em> (W.W. Norton &amp; Co.)

• IT hiring edges up: Why? Take your pick

  Whenever IT hiring picks up, as it did last month, the default explanation from analysts is this: The economy is improving.

• The IT freelance economy is growing, but not at large firms

  The type of company you work for may have a lot to do with whether you're hired as a full-time employee or a contract or contingent worker.

• Humans versus machines: Who will be employed in future?

  Are we heading towards a world where humans will have to compete with machines? Futurist Ross Dawson addressed this concern at the Australian Computer Society's YITCon event in Melbourne this week, and spoke about how to stay ahead of the game when it comes to jobs in the future.

• Millennials choose enterprise IT -- really!

  As a millennial entering the workforce, Amy Jackson had an enviable array of experiences under her belt.

• Career advice: Young and willing to move for a good job

  Ask a Premier 100 IT Leader

• One in three jobs will be taken by software or robots by 2025

  Gartner sees things like robots and drones replacing a third of all workers by 2025, and whether you want to believe it or not, is entirely your business.

• IBM cuts pay by 10 per cent for workers picked for training

  IBM has initiated a new training program that will cut the pay of participating employees by 10 per cent.

• Happy Labor Day -- will a bot take your help desk job?

  Competing forces are affecting people who work on help or service desks. One is improving automation tools, which advocates say can replace level 1 and 2 support staff. At the same time, the number of help desk tickets is rising each year, which puts more demand on the service desk.

• Chief data officer may go the way of chief electricity officer

  The U.S. Commerce Department plans to hire a chief data officer , whose job will be to make more of the department's data publicly available. Whoever takes the job will be part of an exclusive club.

• Super Retail Group CIO resigns

  Super Retail Group CIO, Alan Hesketh, has resigned from his post after four-and-a-half years at the helm of the retailer’s technology team.