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• Atlassian to invest $10 million in NSW ICT jobs in 2010-11

  Australian software development company, Atlassian, has announced it will invest $10 million in the creation of ICT jobs in Sydney in 2010-11.

• NBN Co goes on hiring spree

  The NBN Co has dramatically ramped up its hiring activity, posting an average of three new roles a day on its job vacancy site as its rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) ramps up.

• ACS: Australian ICT workforce increases

  The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has released its annual overview of the Australian ICT market revealing that 15,000 more employees joined the ICT workforce during the past year.
  

• IT contractors not feeling the love: IPro Index 2010

  IT managers have been advised by the head of a leading contractor management organisation to work more actively to meet the needs and welfare of independent IT contractors or risk losing staff.

• Female ICT professionals need further training to reach senior roles

  Female ICT professionals must seek greater professional training and development if they are to ascend to senior management roles, according to one female ICT leader.

• Careers spotlight: Hires and fires

  Your wrap of the local industry's job appointments

• Telstra staff face six month pay rise wait

  Telstra's (ASX:TLS) Consumer Division staff will have to wait at least six months before their claim to a pay increase is considered, the telco has confirmed.

• Employers have shrugged off election fears: Olivier

  The IT jobs market has come through the period of political uncertainty with flying colours, recording a 2.9 per cent increase in jobs ads run throughout August and outpacing the wider jobs market.

• NSW DET on hunt for new CIO

  The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) has finally begun to advertise for a new CIO on Australian jobs site, SEEK, to replace Stephen Wilson who resigned from the role at the end of June.
  

• DFAT looks for new CIO (updated)

  The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is looking for a new chief information officer with an advertisement for the position running today.

• M&A activity drives IT jobs growth

  The revival of M&A activity is fuelling a growth in demand for business change and transformation specialists, a new jobs report has found.

• Permanent IT employee numbers set to rise

  Over 40 per cent of employers are likely to increase their number of permanent IT employees during the second quarter of 2010, according to the latest Hudson report.

• Want a job? Get a computer science degree

  Here's a tip for incoming and current college students: If you want to have a high-paying job on graduation day, study computer science.

• SEEK lifts net profit 13% to $37m

  Revenue grew 19% to $130.4m, but ebitda fell 1% to $55.8m

• Education expert Denise Bradley to join SEEK board

  Bradley will join the board as an independent director