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• How to get a handle on the NZ skills crunch

  There is a lot said about the skills shortage, but getting a handle on exactly what skills are in short supply and the extent of current and future shortages is not easy.

• Trainers respond to skills shortage with innovation

  Skills remain in short supply, with rich pickings available to those who have the right set.

• Australia will target NZ IT skills as shortages worsen

  The Australians are coming and they’re after your body.

• Skills shortage makes hiring harder

  It’s no secret that today’s hiring managers need talent with technical skills and practitioners with domain and industry knowledge. However, the demand for these professionals is quickly draining the talent pipeline. Simply put, there aren’t enough candidates with the necessary skills to fill the number of positions available in today’s IT job market.

• New-style apprentice: Ace offers internships

  ACE Training, a privately owned computer training company, is offering students a one-year industry internship upon completion of one of its Microsoft courses — the Diploma in Computer Technology.

• ICT employers slow to hire migrants: survey

  Many New Zealand companies are reluctant to hire migrants or non-traditional workers such as part-time parents or older workers, according to recruitment consultancy Hudson’s employment and HR trends report for July to December 2006.

• High school ICT courses could help fight future skills shortage

  Secondary school ICT courses are being promoted as one way of encouraging students into an ICT career.

• 'ICT has no mana': Biggs

  The New Zealand ICT industry is at the point of crisis over the number of new recruits coming into the industry, according to a report commissioned by the Game Developers Association.

• Robots beckon: skilled automation staff needed

  There is an opportunity for New Zealand’s automated manufacturing industry to compete with lower-cost countries, says Keith Nosbusch, chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation, a US-based provider of automated systems. The future for countries like New Zealand is in manufacturing high-quality, complex products.

• Lincoln University degree to become more relevant

  The IT skills shortage and the plummeting numbers of ICT students are the main drivers behind Lincoln University’s decision to revise its computer science degree.

• Skills shortage keeps pushing IT salaries up, says survey

  The third IT salary survey, conducted by recruitment firm AbsoluteIT, shows that national permanent salaries increased by 4.43% from June 2005 to July 2006.

• IT skills shortage — fact or fiction?

  For several years we’ve been reading news stories about the impending shortage of skilled IT workers. The predictions have been fairly dire: as baby boomers retire and fewer young people join the IT workforce, hundreds of thousands of jobs in the US and other Western countries will go unfilled. IT projects will languish because companies can’t find the workers with the right skills to staff them. More imported workers will be needed and we’ll have to send more work overseas to outsourcers.

• Pay rises as skills shortage worsens: salary survey

  IT salaries continue to rise and the skills shortage remains a problem, according to recruitment firm absoluteIT’s latest salary survey.