Careers and Skills
CRN: September 2017
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Female-led MSP takes on first female engineer
AAG boss Alexa Greaves admits it has been hard for the Sheffield firm to achieve gender balance in its technical team
REVEALED: How much everyone in the channel earns
From sales staff to technical roles through to the CEO: here's what everyone in a reseller business earns. So are you being underpaid?
Five golden rules for meetings
Meetings needn't be hell, according to UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones
Mirus seeks score of apprentices
MSP says it sees apprenticeships as key to its growth
Former Incisive Media chair Dame Helen Alexander passes away
Dame Helen was chairman of CRN parent company Incisive Media between 2009 and 2014
Help needed: Wannacry helps fuel rise in tech vacancies
IT pros specialising in cybersecurity and digitisation commanding high salaries right now, according to recruitment firm
IT channel's 'answer to Monster' seeks 500 vendor, distie and reseller clients
Channelpeople.co.uk claims it is the first ever channel-only jobs website
Tech branded one of worst-offending sectors for pay gap perceptions
Female tech workers are paid 15 per cent less than their male counterparts - not as big a gap as some other sectors - but perception of gender discrimination in our industry is higher than any other sector, research finds
Hire as many women as possible, Jack Ma urges as Alibaba branded IaaS 'visionary'
Women will be 'very powerful' in 21st century, Alibaba founder says, after Chinese giant's cloud arm makes it into Gartner Magic Quadrant for first time
UK tech sector turning to non-EU citizens to plug skills gap
Number of work permits issued to non-EU IT professionals has risen from 24,000 to 36,000 since 2012, according to Home Office data obtained by law firm
Logicalis to move 65 UK roles to South Africa
Integrator says nearshoring move is part of a wider managed services growth strategy, adding that it is working with Welsh government to ensure soft landing for affected staff
Just 11 per cent of global cybersecurity workforce is female, study finds
Europe bringing up the rear as study concludes that enterprise and government has failed to move the needle on under-representation of women in IT security sector over last four years
Should IT industry being doing more to secure female panellists?
Attendees of industry conferences are often confronted with all-male panels. Vote in our latest poll to let us know what you think of this
All-male industry panels given short shrift by GDS
'Women not suited to a career in business' among responses given by event organisers that have failed to secure female panellists, according to Government Digital Services blog
UK tech industry defies Brexit woes with growing job vacancies
More UK IT jobs advertised last year than ever before
New recruiter courts fast-growing MSPs with flat-rate model
Former MSP boss says his experience of having to pay upfront fees for sub-standard candidates compelled him to launch Avantsys, which charges a fixed monthly fee
Coretx pursues perfect ten for apprenticeship push
Managed services provider launches apprenticeship scheme
Microsoft issues channel call to arms on apprenticeships
Microsoft says it needs its partners' help if it is to fulfil its goal of delivering 30,000 new Microsoft apprentices by 2020, with more mature staff eyeing a sideways move a prime target
Microsoft vows to create 30,000 UK apprenticeships
Vendor declares post-Brexit commitment to UK - and pledges to triple the rate of apprenticeships it is creating with partners - as it hosts chancellor Phillip Hammond at its Reading HQ
Grey hairs flagged as a top channel concern for 2017
One look around a channel conference is proof that the industry is failing to attract Millennials, CompTIA asserts as it express concerns around the ageing workforce
EMC man Sparks takes on Cisco's commercial business
Kevin Sparks to take on part of the role once carried out by Richard Roberts
Soaring salaries and out-of-hours interviews: channel job seekers wield power as skills gap widens
Recruiters report a busy start to January as channel workers put getting a new job at the top of their new year's resolution list
Four ways to plug the IT skills gap
The IT channel is crying out for ways to recruit and retain the best staff
