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Australia’s tech industry peak body the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) says its support for the growth of Australia’s ICT workforce has seen more than 1,340 Queenslanders participate in the two pilot Queensland Government supported ICT micro-credentialing courses in the past 12 months. 

The information and communications technology jobs sector was absolutely hammered in March, listed among the top three sectors contributing to the decline in job ad numbers compared to the same month in 2019 as a result of the COVID-19 shutdown of the economy.

Australian workers are feeling the effects of emerging technologies across industries as jobs are augmented by technology - specifically automation - at an unprecedented rate, according to a new report.

Tech professionals are feeling the impact of the skills gap, with 60% of pros recently surveyed saying they are not actively pursuing a new skill or completed a certification in the last six months, despite advice they need to upskill to advance their careers.

ICT executives continue to face an uncertain employment market as demand waxes and wanes in a generally volatile jobs market across all business and industry sectors nationally.

The ICT jobs market in Australia and globally is going through a transformation with a significant shift to hybrid roles bringing formerly siloed skills such as IT, marketing and business together into one role.

The New Zealand capital Wellington has launched a campaign to attract Australian technology talent to the city in an effort to meet an increasing demand for workers fuelled by its booming ICT and creative sectors.

The Information Technology & Contract Recruitment Association (ITCRA) has formed a partnership with New Zealand’s Burning Glass to facilitate deeper analysis of its SkillsMatch data.

There’s encouraging signs that Australia's ICT jobs market has been gathering pace over the past quarter, with the market for ICT skills now at its highest point for more than a year, according to a newly published report.

Demand for ICT jobs in Sydney and Melbourne is picking up, and the first quarter of this year is showing improved prospects for the national hiring market over 2013, prompting one national recruiter to express cautious optimism about the hiring market for the remainder of the year.

The Information Technology Contract & Recruitment Association (ITCRA) has changed and re-launched its industry certification program after taking into account feedback to a 2012 survey from members of the association.

CeBIT attendees are set to get a taste of the country with the region set to be heavily represented at the upcoming Sydney tech summit.

Employment is continuing to drop in the ICT goods sector and remaining flat in most ICT services, while ICT services employment has been flat or increased slightly - by a mere one percent - in most countries, including Canada, Germany, Sweden and Chinese Taipei, according to a report on  the ICT industry by the OECD.

Australia’s now going through a period of sustained, increased demand for skilled ICT professionals and according to the largest ICT industry recruiter, Peoplebank, the Sydney, Melbourne and Perth markets, in particular, are experiencing a strong lift in demand for IT workers.

The majority of Australian companies have faced the downturn in the economy without cutting IT budgets or IT staff, instead achieving most of their much-needed cost savings in key organisational areas such as administration and operations.

ICT recruitment and consultancy group, FiniteIT, expanded into Western Australia earlier this year and has found the local jobs market has bounced back even faster from the financial downturn than the company anticipated when its new Perth office was opened.

The ICT jobs market in Australia is already emerging from the financial downturn with Candle ICT, in its September Clarius Index, forecasting that a recovery in the market is likely within the next six months.

There’s an increased reliance by employers in the ICT industry on temporary or contract workers as Australian businesses start to recover from the economic downturn but still grapple with measures taken to reduce overheads in the downturn.

Entry level salaries for the ICT industry are up and employers are increasingly looking for staff who are multi-skilled, according to the latest survey of the market by Excom Education.

The ACS Foundation wants more on-the-job learning for ICT students as part of their university studies after a survey of more than 700 recent graduates found that while there was satisfaction with the quality of technical preparation, both employers and the graduates themselves wanted improved work-integrated learning to better equip them for joining the workforce.