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• Technology jobs snatched up as skills gap closes

  ​Australia’s technology skills gap has closed by 29 per cent over the last two years, with at least a 45 per cent increase in online searches by job seekers looking for tech related roles.

• 5 ways to make underemployment work for you

  While the IT skills gap is an issue that largely impact employers, underemployment is a burden carried mostly by workers and candidates.

• How to Add New Job Skills Without Going Back to School

  E-learning is a cost-effective, accessible way to boost your job skills without the hassles of 'traditional' degree programs.

• How Unemployed CIOs Can Survive the Dark Days

  A long job hunt takes a personal and professional toll. CIOs have family and financial concerns while they reassess their careers and face a changing job market. But here's how CIOs can emerge stronger than ever.

• Seek ramps up development as competition rises

  Seek has overhauled its job search functionality as part of a broader development push at the Melbourne-based Web company.

• 15 Common IT Job Search Mistakes

  Searching for a new IT position in a competitive market can be an uphill battle. One little mistake could cost you the opportunity. Read on to make sure you aren't making one of these commonly seen blunders in your job search.

• 4 New LinkedIn Features for Job Seekers

  LinkedIn's redesigned Jobs page sports a new look and a handful of updated features, making it easier for you to find the perfect job.

• How to Use LinkedIn's Alumni Tool to Network, Job Hunt

  LinkedIn's redesigned Alumni tool helps you find contacts from college and gives you insights into the companies they work for, the fields they work in and where they live. Here's how you can use the tool to help find an MBA program or land that dream job.

• 4 LinkedIn Tips for Career Success in 2013

  Whether your New Year's resolution is to land that promotion, ask for a raise or find your dream job, here's how you can take charge and make it a reality.

• How to address failure in a job interview

  For CIOs who experience some kind of enterprise IT failure in the course of their careers-whether a high-profile security breach, massive network outage, or multi-million dollar ERP boondoggle-the incident can feel like a career killer. But unless a CIO repeatedly makes the same mistake, or the failure stemmed from some illegal or "just plain stupid" action, it won't end a CIO's career, says Mark Polansky, senior client partner and managing director of Korn/Ferry International's Information Officers practice.

• How to network: 5 tips for maximizing your meetings

  When you're involved in a job search, meetings over lunch or coffee with contacts in your network-and with your contacts' contacts-can help you uncover job opportunities or lead you to people who work at desirable organizations. Depending on how you approach these meetings, your networking will be either tremendously productive or a painful waste of everyone's time.

• Candle launches into mobile job search

  IT recruitment company Candle has launched a mobile-friendly version of its job search website Candle.com.au.

• How to build a network in 12 days (before Christmas)

  The holiday season is an ideal time for re-connecting, making new contacts and strengthening relationships. Networking is, in fact, the best job search method: It generates more than 80 per cent of new hires.

• CIO résumés: Compare yours to the cream of the crop

  If you've recently begun to update your résumé, you've probably encountered conflicting opinions on how to write a résumé for a CIO position so as to attract an executive recruiter's attention. For example, you may have heard or read that your résumé needs to tell a story about your work experience, and thus needs to include specific details about your professional accomplishments. Yet you've probably also read that a résumé, by nature, should be brief, and that the goal of your résumé is to give the executive recruiter just enough information to make him want to call you to find out more. Such contradictory advice can curse even the most effective communicators with writer's block when they have to re-write their résumés.

• How to network: 7 ways to give, not just receive

  One of the reasons you may not like to network is because, in asking others for help with a job search, you feel you're imposing on your contacts (and their contacts). But viewing networking as an imposition demonstrates several common misconceptions about the practice: that only one person benefits from the exchange; that job seekers have nothing to give to the people with whom they're networking; and that the people being contacted don't want to meet or see the job seeker.