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Industries still reporting IT skills shortage Communication most in-demand ’soft’ skill - also in greatest shortage Linked-In beats out Facebook for social network recruitment. Despite the current economic downturn, demand for experienced and higher skilled IT professionals remains, according to the latest findings from a national workplace survey.

The survey of senior IT decision makers and hiring managers across a range of New Zealand businesses, by global workforce solutions leader Kelly Services, finds over 71% of respondents report an increase or no change in demand for skilled IT professionals in their industry.

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As every media outlet in the UK and beyond has been repeatedly telling us for the past couple of months, we are already in a period of economic recession. As you will also be aware, this means a tough time for businesses small and large. A topic that might not immediately spring to mind when you think of this, however, is that of Employment Law and in particular the risks you are taking if you your employment procedures are not compliant.

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UK advertising spend in 2010 will rise by 2.8% by the end of the third quarter of this year, with online’s share growing 4.2 percentage points during 2009, according to new research. The modest rise comes despite nine consecutive quarters of year-on-year decline. According to new figures from the Advertising Association (AA) and Warc.

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Over three quarters (76%) of UK employers revealed that they do not currently have a formal policy regarding employee use of external social networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn, according to research released today by recruitment outsourcing specialists, Manpower.

By comparison, the independent research of over 2,100 UK employers reveals that one fifth of those surveyed (22%) said that they do have a policy in existence. Of those employers that do currently have a formal policy regarding employee use of external social networks over half said having such a policy in place helped avoid productivity loss (60%) and protected company reputation (55%). While 42% of employers believed that such a policy helped to protect intellectual property and propriety of information (42%) and a fifth (21%) claimed it helped recruitment efforts.

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The unemployment rate shows little sign of improving anytime soon, and if you’re unfortunate enough to be one of those unemployment statistics, what should you do? City resident Leslie Jacobs thought she’d write a book about it, and the result, “Survival in the Unemployment Line: A Humorous Look at being Unemployed,” has taken amazon and other book outlets by storm!

“It’s a humorous look at unemployment, but contains lots of tips I learned from being unemployed,” said Jacobs, who wrote the book’s original manuscript during a mid-1990s bout of unemployment, then updated and published it after being laid off in 2008 from a job she’d held for eight years.

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The UK economy may be proving exceptionally slow in emerging from recession, but this has not harmed the London’s position in the global labour market. London is the number one destination city of choice for international jobseekers, according to global research.

The survey - based on responses from 66,000 workers in 40 countries worldwide - reveals that nearly half (46%) would be willing to seek employment abroad. Among this group, the preferred city destination is London, mentioned by 22%. The next most popular cities are New York and Sydney, cited by 16% and 12% respectively.

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