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Administrator on May 3rd, 2012

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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Mmiller2507 on May 16th, 2011

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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Administrator on August 1st, 2010

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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Administrator on March 31st, 2010

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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