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• 12 Tips to Help College Grads Land Their First IT Job

  Technology and HR pros, as well as IT recruiters, share their advice on how recent graduates and those still in college can best position themselves for a technology career.

• How to Attract and Retain Tech Talent by Using Compensation Benchmarking

  Companies that rely on top tech workers are turning to real-time compensation benchmarking tools to ensure they're paying competitive rates to both attract workers with in-demand skills and reduce turnover.

• IT Skills Gap Is Really an Education Gap

  In Part 2 of CIO.com's three-part series on the technology skills gap in America, Gary Beach suggests that the issue is really an education gap. When it comes to math and science education, is the United States a nation at risk?

• Independent contractors fairing well despite GFC: report

  Despite the severity of the current financial crisis, only one in four Australian contractors, have been required to take a pay cut to stay in employment, a new report has found.

• IBM, Monash extend IT education partnership

  IBM and Monash University have partnered on a new $1.2 million Future Leaders Scholarship program aimed at developing IT leaders versed in both technology and business.

• CIOs' job satisfaction increases despite recession

  Despite having to cope with massive budget cuts, salary freezes and demoralized staffs, most employed IT executives are more satisfied with their jobs this year than they have been in previous years, according to the results of a job satisfaction survey conducted by ExecuNet.

• Wells Fargo CIO of Operations on Hiring IT Pros

  Theresa Wilson knows a thing or two about staying power. During the course of her 33 year career with Wachovia (now part of Wells-Fargo), Wilson has steadily climbed the corporate ladder while surviving countless layoffs (or "efficiencies," as she calls them), mergers and acquisitions. She began her career with Wachovia as a programmer in 1976 and was promoted to senior programmer, senior analyst, project manager and division manager. In 2002, she was named a CIO.

• Staffing: IT professionals want job security, not high fives

  A survey conducted by IT research firm Gartner earlier this year pinpointed the staffing conundrum facing CIOs today: It's hard to reward and retain key IT staff who weren't laid off from their organizations when there's no money in the IT budget for raises.

• Job search tips: addressing job hopping on a resume

  Call it "The Job Hopper's Dilemma." It's the fear, uncertainty and doubt that overcomes IT professionals who've held multiple jobs during a short span of time when they need to apply for a new job. They worry that their job hopping will hamper their job searches, but they don't know how to mitigate the issue.

• How job seekers can assess an employer's office culture

  With job opportunities so scarce these days, job seekers are under tremendous pressure to impress hiring managers during job interviews. In fact, they're so caught up in making a good impression that it's easy for job seekers to forget that the job interview remains their opportunity to assess a prospective employer's corporate culture and to determine whether that work environment will suit them, says Vanessa Hall, author of The Truth About Trust in Business.

• Twitter tips: how to find job posts on Twitter

  Although many companies have been shedding jobs, some employers and recruiters have turned to Twitter to post positions and find new talent.

• IT consultants still in demand in June: SEEK

  The growing rate of unemployment in Australia may be stabilising, according to the findings of the latest SEEK Employment Index (SEI).

• Digital literacy: buzzword or job requirement?

  Graduation season just finished and the air still rings with bad advice given to bored students. Calls for "digital literacy" filled many auditoriums as speakers unclear on the concept tried to hype technologies such as <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> without understanding the technical details they struggled to explain. That made me wonder what people mean when they say digital literacy, because I can think of a dozen definitions. So I asked around, and my suspicions were confirmed: if you demand digital literacy for your employees, be prepared to define exactly what you expect.

• IT consultants in demand in May: report

  If as a CIO you are finding it hard to find the mid-level IT skills of late then you are not alone, according to Seek’s latest Employment Indicator report.

• Global Recession an opportunity for IT organisations to skill up?

  As the global financial crisis continues to bite and staff are laid off, the question of whether the recession presents an opportunity organisation to pick up some highly skilled workers at fire-sale prices has emerged.