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Job Opportunity, June 2007
Axe Group - Senior Intermediate Java Developer
Axe Group is an Australian IT company that delivers Internet-based technology solutions that transform business. Axe is currently looking for a Senior Intermediate Java Developer to join their growing team in Sydney.
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In the News
Interview: Motorola CIO on recruiting, retaining talent by Matt Hamblen (CIO) Jun 07
Four of the five business unit CIOs who work for Patricia Morrison are women. How does she happen to have so many women in top IT positions at Motorola?
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Report: Tech's Gender Gap Widened by Uninviting Workplace by Deborah Perelman (eWeek) May 07
"There is a kind of conventional wisdom that goes around that maybe women don't like technology. So, for us to learn through this research that they do like it and do find it to be a place where they can make a difference and would go as far as to recommend it to others is very telling.."
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Report: Among Tech Execs, Men Face Gender Wage Gap by Deborah Perelman (eWeek) Jan 07
A recent study shows that women CIOs and CTOs in addition to women working on help desks make more than their male colleagues, but in jobs such as database administrators and other senior IT positions, the gap remains wide. And maybe to no one's surprise, another study says that telecommuting is a career-limiting option for most people regardless of gender.
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Study Finds Professional Women Negotiating, Not Opting Out by Deborah Rothberg (eWeek) Jan 07
"Women are leading the way in how all employees in the future will take more control over managing their careers. They are shifting the career paradigm... women who had asked for flexible work arrangements did not experience decreased earning power. More than 85 percent of the women studied reported financial success..."
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Strangers in a Strange Land by Sue Bushnell (CIO) Dec 06
"With the skills shortage escalating in IT and men continuing to dominate executive posts, the work of the growing army of researchers pondering the role of gender in IT is taking on new urgency. As surveys paint a dismal picture of the number of women working at senior levels in the country's top companies, some sectors of business are becoming increasingly alarmed about the way women are being largely locked out of positions that have significant influence over the company's business direction."
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It takes a Woman by Sue Bushnell (CIO) Dec 06
Almost half of all IT job openings will go begging this year. At the same time, women are leaving the IT ranks at twice the rate of men. How can we stop this madness?
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ACS-W Presents
Career coaching will help you to identify options and choices available to you and assist in creating an action plan to get you to where you want to go. It is a "package" of four one-hour meetings at two-weekly intervals over a period of eight weeks.
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ACS-W
ACS-W is a community formed to bring together women who have an interest in the ICT industry. This includes women who wish study IT, women who are in the industry, women who are involved in IT as part of their work and women re-entering the industry.
ACS-W is not only an information portal for it's members but also a support group that encourages women to reach their IT goals.
