January 2005 Newsletter

Tsunami Earthquake Appeal

Wishing you all a Happy New Year seems slightly glib now - especially as you have all no doubt heard the awful news in Asia by now.

Having almost finished a successful campaign to raise money for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), we can't stop at that. 

We are still collating funds for the NSPCC and these will be forwarded on completion of all the enrolments applicable for that campaign.

We will be now try to do something (no matter that it seems so small) to help the victims of this tragedy, donating a sum ourselves to the DEC Tsunami Earthquake Appeal. We will also contribute 1% from every enrolment received from now on - and we'll continue to give this for as long as it takes.

Even if you take advantage of the special promotion fees opposite you will still be contributing 1% of the course fees to the Appeal.

We wish you and your families a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

From everyone at ITlearneasy!

Career Information

Public Sector snaps up IT Pros:

Permanent vacancies for IT staff in the public sector grew by 18% in the second quarter of this year and contract positions grew by 19%.

For permanent jobs only the electronics and communications industry saw a larger increase: job vacancies in this market grew 31% between April and June 2004.

Richard Nott, sales director at CWJobs, said: "Demand for IT jobs in the public sector remains strong. The IT industry is the healthiest it has been in eighteen months and we anticipate that demand for IT personnel will remain steady as the industry makes a full recovery."

The most popular skills demanded by the public sector were Oracle, Office, SQL and Java. 

In terms of advertised salary Oracle Developers can expect £50k, SQL Developers £47k and Java Developers £43k, figures for Office Developers were not available. The rest of the Top Ten was: Unix (£51k), HTML (£48k), Prince (£NA), Windows 2000 (£NA), SQL Server (£54k) and Visual Basic (£49k).

The CWJobs/SSL survey takes information from all the jobs advertised in the UK's leading IT and multi-sector recruitment web sites along with press and trade magazine adverts.

22 Sept 2004

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Oracle OCP's earn the highest average income:

Oracle Corporation recently announced that ONLY 60,000 professionals worldwide have achieved the Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) certification.

The article cites a source from Certification Magazine stating that Oracle certification provides the best overall economic impact and return on investment for students training in this area.

Certification Magazine's salary survey found that OCPs brought in the highest average income of all IT certified professionals.

For more information, visit: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/617320.html

27 Jul 2004

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The day PC meant Perfectly Confused:

If you were ever wondering if now is a good time to become a PC Repair Technician, work on a help desk or set up on your own, the following clip from the Daily Mail may help you decide!

A technical helpline for owners of new computers was flooded with more than 25,000 calls over Christmas.

PC Servicecall, which handles queries from customers of Dixons, Currys, PC World and The Link, said it received an average of one call every 21 seconds on Boxing Day. Most related to cables - mainly with the devices not being properly plugged in. Others were about power supply, software installation or simply not being able to find the "on" switch.

31 Dec 2004

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IT skills shortage threatens humanity:

British business is already suffering material harm because of a lack of skilled IT staff, a Gartner survey has found.

Researchers believe the problem is bad now and will get worse in the future. They predict the IT workforce will grow at between 1.5% and 2.2% per annum for the next ten years.

Apart from new jobs, recruits are also needed to fill posts left empty by people leaving the industry, taking a career break or retiring.

This replacement demand is expected to be nine per cent for IT professionals and 14% for the IT industry. This means the UK needs to find between 156,000 and 179,000 entrants a year.

The UK has 580,000 people working in the IT industry and another 590,000 people working as IT professionals in other industries.

The survey also found that 20m out of a total workforce of 27m use technology as part of their jobs but 40% of them have never had any training.

For more information, visit: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/01/skills_shortage/

1 Nov 2004

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