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Careers

Giving girls the code to a life in computing and engineering

Reshma Saujani, founder and chief executive officer of Girls Who Code.

Matthew Hall  An organisation encouraging young girls to develop an interest in computer science and engineering aims to bridge the gap in the number of women and men employed in computing fields, whether as engineers or developers.

Expertise

Boston's tech aspirations a lesson for Australia

An unidentified man takes a photograph at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. The city has a history of innovation.

Matthew Hall  The city of Boston is making a pitch as a global centre of tech excellence as Facebook and other digital giants open offices in the city better known for its Red Sox, revolutionaries and universities.

Expertise

Summer reading: brush up on your tech knowledge part 2

Even some classics can be interpreted in a new light.

Cynthia Karena  In the second of two articles, we complete your handy guide to the must-read books of the season.

Expertise

2014 summer reading: brush up on your tech knowledge

The quiet season is a good time to read the books that might help us in the year ahead.

Cynthia Karena  There's nothing like a few quiet days, a lounge chair and a couple of good books to expand our horizons. Part one.

New technology university to foster entrepreneurial mindset

New York City wants to be the centre for tech entrepreneurship education.

Matthew Hall  A partnership between American and Israeli universities aims to establish the leading technology educational institution in the world.

Jobs

Facebook fishing for new talent in Wollongong

University of Wollongong graduate Cooper Lees now works at Facebook.

Sylvia Pennington  Facebook is in Australia scouting scout out the best and brightest university students.

Jobs

Recruitment start-ups eye traditional jobs market

The Search Party founders Ben Hutt (left) and Jamie Carlisle.

Sylvia Pennington  Once a powerful conduit between candidate and employer, recruiters are seeing their traditional business model undermined by a slew of online competitors chasing a bigger slice of the $3 billion pie.

Expertise

Sheryl Sandberg: 'bossy' is good

"That's fantastic": Sheryl Sandberg says CEOs complained women now want to be paid the same as men.

Matthew Hall  Facebook COO tells women to assert themselves at work.

Expertise

Microsoft wins spot in school curriculum

Karen McFarlane, Albany Creek High School head of department senior schooling, with students.

Sylvia Pennington  In a move that will be hailed both as in the interest of preparing children for the workforce and as a creep into the schoolyard, Microsoft has won the right to be featured in the Queensland's high school curriculum.

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Jobs

NICTA in push to convince year 5 students of ICT career merit

NICTA is hoping to awaken technology career aspirations in children as young as 10 or 11.

Sylvia Pennington  A pilot program credited with reversing ICT enrolment decline is to be rolled out nationally.

Expertise

Branding now a marketing strategy for people too

Looking to get there first? Experts say you need to build your personal brand.

Sylvia Pennington  Lessons on dress style, body language, written and oral communication and the use of social media.

Expertise

Melbourne firm adding IT jobs, 100 at a time

Counting every job: Victoria Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips.

Lia Timson  As more organisations undergo business and technology transformation, one Melbourne company is reaping the rewards.

Jobs

Alcatel-Lucent job cuts will have 'minimal impact' in Australia: Sean O'Halloran

Alcatel-Lucent employees protest against the company's planned job-cuts on October 22, 2013 in Nantes, France.

Ben Grubb  Australian jobs are unlikely to go as telecommunications equipment maker undertakes global restructure.

Expertise

With no better prospect contractors are happy to stay

Entity Solutions CEO Matthew Franceschini.

Sylvia Pennington  They're in work and they like what they do - but two in three contractors think their prospects aren't brilliant if they lose their current gig.

Broadband

Help needed: NBN Co calls consultants for strategic review

NBN co issued a request for proposals for consultants to provide expert advice and skills for a strategic review.

Lucy Battersby   NBN Co will invite consultants to help its board conduct the 60-day strategic review promised by Malcolm Turnbull prior to the election.

Expertise

Twitter pays engineer $10 million as Silicon Valley tussles for talent

A talented engineer's pay packet is the second biggest at Twitter, after that of CEO Dick Costolo, pictured.

Sarah McBride  Among Twitter's highest-paid executives, Christopher Fry's name stands out.

Jobs

Please explain: job seeker exercises right to look at files

Adam Ezekiel says notes made by some recruiters on his file are enlightening and horrifying.

Sylvia Pennington  Is Adam Ezekiel arrogant, or a genius – and does either opinion explain why he can’t find a job?

Management

Bulk of IT spend tipping away from CIOs

IT departments are now directly responsible for less than 60 per cent of enterprise IT spending, report shows.

Stuart Corner  Responsibility for IT budgets is slipping away from CIOs as business units increase their involvement in technology strategy and purchasing decisions.

Innovation

What Marita Cheng did next

Young Australian of the Year, Marita Cheng assembling a robot at Melbourne University last year.

Sylvia Pennington  This twenty-four year old had so many choices. She picked the boldest one.

Start-ups

'You can be a multimillionaire': Tech festival hopes to inspire the next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates

Could Australia have a Mark Zuckerberg in its ranks?

Ben Grubb  Australia's first technology start-up festival hopes to inspire entrepreneurs to become the next Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs or Larry Page.