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Coles plans to hire more than 70 digital professionals to join its eCommerce business, in a move the retail giant says will help to drive rapid digital transformation and shape the future of Australian retail.

FinTech Integrated Payment Technologies, better known as InPayTech, is rebranding to wrkr.

Information technology consulting company Cognizant is opening a new global delivery centre in Adelaide, Australia, and will hire and train 1,600 newly created roles for digital engineers, graduates, and apprentices by 2026.

Remote hiring company, Deel, announced it has raised $US 425 million in Series D funding taking its total amount raised to over $US 630 million and now valuing the company at $US 5.5 billion. It has become the highest-valued company in the global hiring, payments, and compliance space.

Globalization Partners has concluded its annual Pangeo global employment conference, providing a forum to help leaders and businesses everywhere in navigating the “new normal” under COVID.

Middle aged and older Australians suffered the brunt of scams in September with those aged 45 to 54 the hardest hit financially during the month and the aged 65 and over reporting the highest number of scams at 5,642.

A newly published survey on 2021 global youth unemployment in several sectors including tech, has revealed that 26% of youth have spent the past 12 months job searching, with 67.9% citing ‘little or no work experience’ as one of their main barriers to employment.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Just as security is now built into products, services and businesses from the ground up, so too should important legal issues be considered when starting a business, employing staff, dealing with data, IP, working form home, data breaches, staff who leave and much, much more, as lawyer Nicholas Stewart explains.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Just as security is now built into products, services and businesses from the ground up, so too should important legal issues be considered when starting a business, employing staff, dealing with data, IP, working form home, data breaches, staff who leave and much, much more, as lawyer Nicholas Stewart explains.

Industry superannuation fund HESTA is collaborating with social enterprise Girls of Impact in a move aimed at encouraging more young women to consider a career in financial services.

Accounting software provider Xero has revamped its flexible work policy.

Australian technology industry digital micro-skills marketplace Skills Finder has launched 20 new dedicated Career Pathways it says will help meet the growing demand for skilled workers in high-demand jobs such as data analytics, digital marketing and UX design. 

Australia's managers consistently overrate both their own — and their organisation's — efficacy at engaging and recognising the value of employees, according to a new study commissioned by Achievers, the progressive choice for employee voice and recognition solutions that accelerate a culture of performance.

The information technology sector just pipped marketing at the post to be the best performer, assisted again by increased private sector positions, according to the June executive demand index report from executive search firm EL Consult.

Business software provider Pegasystems is working with WithYouWithMe to help improve the employment prospects of ex-military personnel.

Jobs site SEEK has Chewied through a veritable Sith-load of Star Wars stuff, just in time for May the Fourth, and I've got to Han it to them, it's no fluke, sky walkers, that SEEK wants you to be a Job Jedi.

Those seeking jobs during a pandemic are already struggling for opportunities. It doesn’t help when interviewers ask questions but have something else in mind. Here’s how you can respond to this common curveball.

SAP Australia and New Zealand now offers its employees life leave: five additional days off in recognition that stuff happens in real life – some of it good, some bad – but all requiring attention during what would normally be working hours.

Japanese ICT giant Fujitsu has signed a three-year contract with the Australian Department of Defence to uplift and modernise Defence’s existing and planned future ICT environments.

Microsoft specialist Avanade has granted its employees additional leave entitlements. An unspecified amount of gender transition leave is now available, and paid parental leave is available to employees regardless of gender.