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The IT sector has been cast as the “real corporate game changer” for business in Australia, with the latest report on executive demand in the sector showing a 9% increase for March over February, with New South Wales and the ACT the clear leaders - and executive jobs up 47% on a year ago.

The Information & Communication Technology sector has been one of Australia’s strongest performing industry sectors for year on year jobs growth, according to a new report which showed an increase of 26% in the number of ICT job ads for February compared to 2017.

The Victorian Government has launched Tomorrow Me – a new digital game experience designed to help young people transition from education to full time or secure employment.

Demand for ICT executives has risen markedly with the latest employment report pushing the demand in February up by 16% to its highest level since 2012.

Technology is among the business and industry sectors to record a strong increase in jobs advertising for the three months to the end of January.

Australian businesses, like their counterparts around the world, are missing out on top talent because they are alienating candidates with poor communication and long hiring practices, new independent research reveals.

Analytics professionals are still in high demand, with the biggest pay increases for key roles and emerging talent, according to the latest Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia skills and salary survey.  

With surveys showing increasing jobs demand for IT professionals there’s also expected to be an uplift in salaries across the sector despite salaries in most Australian states being flat over recent months.

The first Australian employment marketplace to embrace the skill of voice-activated job searching with Amazon Alexa is SEEK, with company reviews, job search skills and weekly employment market updates also available through Alexa.

The Australian ICT sector jobs market for executives hit a high note in November with a 35% gain, coming second only to management in gains, according to the latest executive demand index from EL Consult recruitment.

Telecommunications and data centre provider Macquarie Telecom is opening a new network operations centre in Sydney in a move which the company says will “rescue’ at least 13 jobs which would have been moved offshore by a third-party provider.

The Melbourne team of national recruitment firm, the Finite Group, has moved to new offices on the back of an expansion in headcount and business demand.

There are signs Australia’s “booming economy" might be hitting a flat spot, according to recruitment firm EL Consult, which says its executive demand index for October showed the Information Technology sector was the smallest supplier of executive-level jobs for the month.

Finite Recruitment has renewed its commitment to candidate care and providing best-in-class service with the launch of its new website.

The ICT sector offered one of the highest number of job opportunities of any business and industry sector in October on the back of what has been described as a boom in Australia’s economy, according to the latest jobs advertising report from recruitment firm SEEK.

Job seekers feel that there are plenty of available jobs in the IT market, with 47% of them indicating that they are likely to actively look for a new role, according to the latest workforce survey from Clicks IT Recruitment.

Victoria’s Swinburne University of Technology has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with global IT services company DXC Technology to establish the first “neurodiversity” hub for students in Australia – and to increase the number of roles available to Swinburne students in the IT professions.

Technology industry lobby group the Information Technology Professionals Association is buoyant about the latest employment data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics which it says shows IT industry employment in Australia has grown by 45% over the 10 years from 2006 to 2016.

The demand for executives in the IT sector continues to decline, with a fall of 11% in October reversing gains made earlier in the year.

Specialist recruitment agency ClicksIT says a recent study it undertook shows continuing low participation rates in the IT industry, with the proportion of women candidates remaining steady at 23% for the past five years.