Unemployment figures – Realism up, Optimism down

After the optimism of yesterday’s post about the state of the employment market, here’s a bout of realism from the latest unemployment stats.

Reasons for optimism in IT employment market?

The latest news on the IT employment market, from the Labour Market Outlook report from the CIPD and KPMG.

Can’t find a job? Should you sue, or is there anything else you can do?

What do if you’ve left University with an awesome degree but subsequently failed to land that dream job.

Graduate Recruitment Brands: Tech Big Guns Fight it Out in Awards Battle

We’re not normally that interested in the various ways in which the Recruitment industry dishes out awards to itself. That’s why, frankly, we couldn’t be bothered even mentioning the Recruiter Awards for Excellence this year. We can tell you that lots of awards were won by some companies. Great.
However, there’s an [...]

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When we started the blog, we PROMISED we wouldn’t post job adverts up here. But this one is just too pertinent to blogging in general the we couldn’t help ourselves….if you’re interested, mail us at contact@idealpeople.net for more information.
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What makes a Great Software Tester?

After 7 years of hiring people from Entry-Level to Head/VP/Director of QA who do Software Test, QA, Release, Configuration, UAT and Packaging, Idealpeople wanted to reflect on what makes a super-wicked Software Test Professional.
I’m talking about a Software Test Engineer who knows why they got into Software Testing, even if it was accidentally.
A QA Engineer [...]