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ACS
ACS encourages federal leaders to think bigger around tech jobs
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) is calling for greater visionary thinking from federal leaders around the industries of the future, particularly relating to IT technology roles.

Jobs
JobAdder reveals how COVID-19 has impacted recruitment
"This report demonstrates the year-on-year differences the pandemic has made to the talent acquisition and recruitment sector."

Recruitment
NZ sees universal wage growth, highest paying regions revealed
Wages are largely up this year, so money may not be the factor it once was in influencing employees willingness to resign.

Jobs
Best city for cybersecurity jobs revealed
Cyber specialists are in hot demand and it doesn't look like the demand is in any way faltering.

Employee Experience
Study finds huge disconnect between managers and employees
"As a manager, you may think you're doing a good job, but our research is demonstrating that there's a disconnect between what you think and what your employees are feeling."

Customer experience
Qualtrics announces ambitious plans for APJ region
With plans to add 1,200 new jobs by the end of 2024, Qualtrics is increasing its investment in APJ to accelerate the significant growth already achieved since launching in the region in 2015.

Jobs
Relief from COVID impact spurs A/NZ job market
"Employers and employees are signalling more confidence," says report.

Jobs
Border restrictions block Konica Minolta Australia managing director replacement
Konica Minolta Australia chairman and managing director Dr. David Cooke has announced his resignation, however will stay with the company as it navigates border restrictions due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Managed Services
Irish IT services company to open Auckland ops centre
Evros aims to create up to 100 IT jobs in Auckland over the next two years.

Jobs
Forget disruption, you should be worrying about our lack of tech
According to the new report, ‘New Zealand, technology and productivity’, it isn’t that New Zealand has too much technology it’s that we don’t have enough.

Jobs
Job ads are down and salaries are up - SEEK
The latest SEEK Employment Report shows a decline of 6.5% in jobs advertised compared to May 2018.

Infrastructure
Relentless demand for IT experts in Southeast Asia
A new report has shown hiring activity in Southeast Asia to be surging with double-digit growth.

Business Intelligence / BI
DXC Red Rock looking for NZ analytics leadership after M-Power acquisition
The company says the opportunity to employ an 'experienced consulting leader' has come about as a result of the M-Power acquisition.

Jobs
Tech Data announces new CEO as Robert Dutkowski steps down
Ex-IBM channel veteran Richard T. Hume will fill the position of CEO, after serving 2 years as Tech Data's executive vice president.

Jobs
Hitachi Vantara A/NZ channels leader exits as the company prepares for partner program changes
The company says it regrets that the business changes they have made impacted Teagues position, who left at the end of March.

Internet
NBN CEO Bill Morrow to step down before the end of the year
Morrow will have led the organisation for a total of four years and nine months by the time he steps down.

Machine Learning
The robot-CFO is soon to be a reality - is your career AI-proof?
With more and more white collar jobs falling into the ‘could be done by software’ category, should CFO’s AI-proof their careers?

Startup
Government to introduce 457 visa replacement program to lure tech talent
The new scheme will be aimed at both businesses with over $4 million annual turnover as well as technology-based and STEM-related start-ups.

Cybersecurity
Is AI actually the scary monster under the bed?
AI was once feared by all, but it is now giving us the ability to do certain things more efficiently than ever before.

Jobs
47% of Aussie IT employees will look for new work in 2018
The Australian IT employment market is in good stead with high confidence among recruits.

Chatbots
Chatbots and AI are the future of your job
Organisations are now exploring how they can take advantage of AI technologies in the workplace...

Infrastructure
Lenovo announces shake-up of global data center leadership team
Lenovo has made a host of new job appointments to its global data center leadership team in a bid to accelerate growth.

Smartphone
Xiaomi to create 20,000 jobs in India over next three years
The Chinese technology firm says India is one of the important markets for the company.

Jobs
New year brings new CEO for Eagle Technology
The new year brought a wave of things for a lot of us (mostly headaches), but for Eagle Technology, it brought change.