• Optus Business restructure integrates Alphawest, NCS

  Optus has completed a business restructuring that integrates Optus Business with Alphawest and SingTel subsidiary NCS. The groups, which serve enterprise and government customers, previously operated separately.

• Australian startup snapshot: Airtasker

  After turning one year old, Sydney's Airtasker is considering expanding its online marketplace for contract jobs overseas, according to co-founders Tim Fung and Jonathan Lui. However, Fung and Lui wants to keep its HQ and said it’s critical Australia promotes an ecosystem that keeps startups Down Under.

• Tax law may keep Australian startups from hiring 'quality talent'

  Australian tax rules may stunt growth of startups and push them out of the country, according to the Norton Rose law firm and a survey by Deloitte.

• Telecom NZ cuts 120 at Gen-i Australia

  Telecom NZ has slashed 120 Australian jobs at its ICT services unit, Gen-i Australia, as the division refocuses on large customers.

• IT worker shortage continues as jobs remain unfilled

  There was a shortage of 4600 IT professionals across Australia during the December quarter with skills in data warehousing, business intelligence and SAP technologies remaining in high demand, according to the Clarius Skills Index.

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  Computerworld Australia's hot jobs round-up: 26 July 2010

  A look at the hot IT jobs and certifications around Australia this week

• Computerworld Australia's hot jobs round-up: 7 June 2010

  HP's looming job cuts to its enterprise services division hasn't been the most comforting news of the past week, but an inevitably impending sign of IT skills shifting in the market to take advantage of new automation technologies and other technological trends.

• Computerworld Australia's hot jobs round-up: 17 May 2010

  Last week's Budget saw little in the way of support for IT skills and education, from both the Federal Government and the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott's budget reply. State governments are still finding it hard to get enough skilled workers, though the job ad deficit seems to be continuing both in the public and private sectors.

• Independent contractors fairing well despite GFC: report

  Despite the severity of the current financial crisis, only one in four Australian contractors, have been required to take a pay cut to stay in employment, a new report has found.

• How to manage layoff survivor syndrome

  Chances are, if you've survived a round of layoffs in your career, you've probably experienced a pang of longing for lost colleagues, a lack of motivation and a decrease in productivity. According to a report by The Conference Board, an independent membership organization, such reactions can be described as "survivor's syndrome."

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