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HEADLINES AT A GLANCE:


*	Permanent IT Jobs Returning to Growth
	
*	Steering Grads to Start-Ups
	
*	The IT Labor Market: Volatile, and No Tranquility in Sight
	
*	The Five Things Job Recruiters Want from You Now
	
*	Start Planning Your Future at the Finish
	
*	Web Worker Survey 2010
	
*	What to Do When You?re Overqualified
	
*	IT Career Burnout: What to Do When the Thrill is Gone
	
*	Are You Invisible In the Workplace?
	
*	SC10 Announces Opportunities to Participate Through Education, Diversity and Volunteer Programs 
	

 

Permanent IT Jobs Returning to Growth
Network World, June 14 


The IT jobs market is showing signs of recovery, particularly on the permanent side, according to Reed Specialist Recruitment. The number of available permanent jobs is increasing in small and mid-sized enterprises, as well as in the financial services and software segments. Over the last five or six months, the IT jobs market has started to pick up again as companies look to build up their permanent teams to meet current demand. As a result, job search cycles are shrinking and IT salaries are starting to see an uptick.

The lead time between interviews and job offers has shortened to that of before the recession. Generally speaking, the time between interview and job offer has shortened to four weeks, down from two months or more. In terms of the roles that are in demand, there is a growing trend for project management and change management roles, mainly in the financial services sector, due to banks merging. 

IT salaries are also starting to see an upward trend. Some clients, in a bid to finish projects quickly, are paying above-market rates to attract workers away from other contractors. Moreover, .NET and PHP skills are in high demand in the SME market, where smaller clients are choosing to upgrade legacy systems rather replace them with new ones. The emerging consensus is that the forecast public sector recession will not be quite as bad as people are expecting. However, there is still concern about the potential freeze on IT projects with significant budget. 


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Steering Grads to Start-Ups
Wall Street Journal, June 9 

HackNY, a new nonprofit organization in New York City, hopes to steer more area graduates in computer science, math and related fields to careers at technology start-ups. In doing so, the organization is changing the typical career trajectory for these youth, who typically have considered high-paying careers on Wall Street or prestigious positions at large technology companies. As Chris Wiggins, a HackNY organizer and a professor at Columbia University, points out, many recent grads who have taken finance jobs haven't been happy with their decision. In contrast, challenging positions at new start-ups give these students an opportunity to use their computer science knowledge from the first day. 

The HackNY program started approximately six months ago after a meeting among Mr. Wiggins, New York University professor Evan Korth and Hilary Mason, a former academic and chief scientist at bit.ly. The three had separately been trying to encourage more links between academia and New York technology companies, and came up with the idea of a 24-hour student 