Foreign secretary William Hague has announced the devotion of £500,000 a year to the opening and running of a global cyber research centre to be sited at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. The Global Centre for ...
IT contracting is being favoured over permanent hiring in the current market but some senior roles are moving back in-house, a recruitment expert says. Hays IT senior regional director Peter Noblet said permanent roles were steady but ...
Why WestHolland? With almost 500 million residents, and a purchasing power second to none, Europe is one of the world's most important business and consumer markets. Dutch know-how and expertise in international trade and commerce make ...
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Gozaik , a free social web application for recent graduates and young professional job seekers that allows users to produce multimedia, mosaic-style resumes for Twitter, launches in Beta today. The platform makes all jobs tweeted searchable ...
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"Don't you have a conference in Shanghai? Why don't you go there?" "We have 'cloud conference' now. I can attend conference on Internet and I don't need to take flight." "How is the effect?" "Data viewing, multi personal audio video, it's ...
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A dessert manufacturer is building a 2.5M factory in Cumbria that will create 50 jobs to cater for the growing trend for miniature desserts. Shot glass portions give customers a quick hit of indulgence "Everything's going miniature," ...
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A just-released forecast of labour supply and demand says construction will need to recruit more than 250,000 workers—including the traditional number of new entrants to the workforce—to meet building needs from now until 2021. ...
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IBM and ASTRON are on the hunt for scientists to take part in what is described as the world’s biggest big data challenge – researching the origins of the universe. The two organisations are inviting professors, scientists and ...
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Yesterday, Chancellor George Osborne delivered his Budget statement. He pledged to scrap a 3p rise in fuel duty, cut national insurance payments and raise the personal allowance to £10,000 next April. Every business in the country ...
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AkzoNobel is pleased to announce its involvement in an important new initiative to inspire young people into careers in the manufacturing sector. Leading global paints and coatings company AkzoNobel is joining an exclusive group of ...
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Health Insurance Innovations (HII) has procured its contract rights with TSG Agency (TSG) as well as certain other assets for a potential value of $5.5m. Around $0.3m of costs related to the transaction is expected to be incurred by HII. ...
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The Cyber Security Challenge (CSC) is not only about recruiting talent, but is aimed at raising awareness and widening the IT security talent pool, according to the competition's CEO, Stephanie Danan. Danan was responding to Computing's ...
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Eng. Omar Abdullah Al Nomany, Vice President of IT, STC Saudi Arabian STC this week inaugurated what it calls the largest information security control centre in the region to improve the security features of the telco’s systems and ...
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Marissa Mayer has been challenged on her hiring practices in internal meetings, with Yahoo employees accusing her of missing out on top engineering talent, an unnamed employee has alleged. Speaking to Reuters, the employee said that Mayer ...
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The UK market was at its seasonal low in February, although one should avoid any undue gloom…demand was entirely in line with expectations. Indeed, it may surprise you to note that January was actually up some 8% up on the same month ...
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