Category: Jobs
Facebook: Employers Demanding Login Details
Facebook has threatened that it could potentially take legal action against employers or job interviewers which ask employees or potentially job candidates for their login credentials. This is a bold claim and one which may be extremely difficult to police. Frustration from Facebook follows incidents such as that which occurred last week when Justin Bassett was asked to hand over his login details after it emerged that his profile could …
Loose Data Affecting Student Career Prospects
Students are not facing the most prosperous times with regards to career prospects but recent data suggests that many are concerned about data they post online affecting their chances of getting a job. In fact of the 500 students surveyed in a study conducted by ICO, 42% expressed concern that personal data hanging around online may affect whether companies would take them on. Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner stated “In touch …
Federal Data Centre Decommission
The U.S federal government is planning to close down a massive 40% of its data centres over the course of the next four years. This means that 800 of the 2000 data centres which exist across the country will be decommissioned. The hope is that the strategy will drastically reduce the hefty federal budget which is spent on technology every year, freeing up billions of dollars as well a substantial …
Overall affect of Government Cuts on IT spending
PricewaterhouseCoopers has predicted that IT suppliers in the private sector are set to lose a total of £3.7 billion in revenue a year as a direct result of the government’s impending spending review. More specifically, computer service suppliers are expected to lose £2 billion in revenue, while the machinery and computers sector will lose £1.7 billion a year by 2014/15, as a knock-on effect of cuts expected to be made …
What do job prospects look like in the Cloud.
There has always been a strong relationship between business technology and employment levels. With the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicting that the worldwide spending on Cloud Computing will be around the $42 billion mark in 2012, it appears that this advance is no exception. The question remains as to exactly how the rise of Cloud Computing will affect the job market. Will there be a significant rise in the number …
