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• Aussie tech talent wait for opportunities to 'fall into their laps'

  ​Australia's ICT professionals are sitting back and waiting for the opportunities to come to them, according to IT recruiter Greythorn.

• CIOs Talk Hiring and How to Win the 'War for Talent'

  Technology executives met in San Francisco this week at a CIO Perspectives event to talk recruiting and to share strategies for hiring and managing top-notch tech talent.

• Q4 hiring plans slow, hint at IT recruiting challenges

  Fewer CIOs are planning to expand their IT departments in Q4 than were three months ago, according to Robert Half Technology. But on the positive side, fewer CIOs have plans to freeze hiring or reduce their staffs in the coming quarter.

• Former CIO fights skills shortage with 'grey army'

  To combat a "chronic" skills shortage, CIOs should look to engage more independent, middle-aged contractors who, while wanting to work on their own terms, are good value and don't come with the artificial demands of Gen-Y workers, says a former CIO turned consultant.

• IT job seekers get personal: survey

  IT professionals are more likely to rely on personal and word of mouth-based referrals when searching for a new role rather than turning to social networking sites, according to new research.

• Strength-based recruitment to dominate by 2020: experts

  Strength-based recruitment, collaboration and diversity are vital for employee success according to a panel of IT leaders and psychology experts.

• Social networking ever more critical to job search success

  Jobvite, a maker of recruiting software, released the results of its third-annual social recruiting survey this morning, and the findings underscore the many reasons job seekers need to incorporate online social networking into their job searches.

• IT workers stick to their guns through GFC: survey

  The global financial crisis may have left many people uncertain about their job security, but IT professionals remained stoic and refused to consider an alternative career throughout the downturn, according to new research.

• Social recruiter offers CIOs $1000 hire bounty

  Melbourne-based social recruiting service HooJano is offering CIOs who successfully recruit a person through its service up to $1000 in reward money until the end of June.

• UK kicks off program to recruit security gurus

  The U.K. is planning to hold computer security exercises later this year to spark interest in the field and address a shortage of professionals in the country, a program modeled after one started in the U.S.

• Recruiter flags IT opportunities amid downturn

  New research by recruitment firm Randstad indicates that while the economy is in a downturn more than half of employers believe there remains a skills shortage that will lead to job opportunities.