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The Latest Recent intelligence received through the 7C Alliance network about the state of the recession and its impact on IT and Telecoms (ICT) contractors suggests there’s a recruitment freeze, growing unease with costs and value of recruiters and a shift of hiring businesses towards doing their own sourcing. The 7C Alliance’s Response In response [...]
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Following seeing a posting by one of the bloggers in the Open Practice Technology Network LinkedIn group, I attended the seminars associated with the CRN Partner Connect show-case in Coventry last week. It seemed more like it was the Partner Correct Conference, as it had all the large players in operating platforms and infrastructure – including Google, HP, [...]
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Introduction As a further development of the “open practice” technology networking concept that it has trialled with its group on LinkedIn, and which has attracted a mix of over 400 UK and European IT contractors, contract recruitment agencies as well as businesses interested in IT contractors, the 7C Alliance is now looking to take sharing [...]
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Promised simplification of the UK’s tax regime and financial incentives for small businesses are two key notes arising out of the eagerly awaited Emergency Budget. The rest is “TBA” with technical details to be fleshed out later. In the SME IT arena the Budget Report indicates tax breaks around Intellectual Property and R&D tax credits. [...]
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With the ups and downs of IT recruitment generally, the topsy turvey nature of IT in banking, the tap versus slide to answer your smartphone, the SUN behind The Cloud – or not at all – and Bill Gates no longer the richest man in the world, some of us are wondering where IT has [...]
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Having just read Bob Evans’ latest article in Information Week about Larry Ellison’s comments on Oracle’s acquisition of SUN Microsystems – and what that means for the future – I thought I would share some predictions that a few good friends, colleagues and I have thought are likely to be “in store” for us in 2010 [...]
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At the recently held 7C Alliance Job SAW event, I presented a workshop on the Top 5 Challenges in applying for jobs online and the challenges that IT contractors face in getting through to the end-client and to interviews. Presentation background These challenges are from a number of market observations gathered by Matt Miller in [...]
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Job Search Analysis Week (Job SAW) is a new concept of event that 7C Alliance piloted on Thursday 10th September 2009 in West London and which, despite short notice to hold it, had full attendance at every workshop presented. It is an event that involves a series of small workshops where presenters are organised to [...]
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