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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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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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