NCC definitive IT Skills Guide. (IT News).The NCC NCC See National Clearing Corporation (NCC). has released its Best Practice Guide to IT Skills - Recruitment recruitment /re·cruit·ment/ (re-krldbomact´ment) 1. the gradual increase to a maximum in a reflex when a stimulus of unaltered intensity is prolonged. 2. and Retention. The Guide is aimed at decision makers in IT responsible for planning and implementing IT staff recruitment and retention strategies. It contains key recommendations for addressing this critical issue of national concern. Achieving organisational stability and changing business objectives are primary concerns for all organisations - the effective use of IT in meeting these objectives is critical. With the current estimated UK shortage of skilled IT practitioners running at mound mound, prehistoric earthwork erected over a burial place as a memorial or landmark, a defensive embankment, or a site for ceremonial or religious rites. Such structures are found in many parts of the world, but the name is applied in particular to those of North 50-70,000, workforce stability and ensuring the right IT skills are essential business requirements. IT Skills - Recruitment and Retention emphasises that the shortage is of people with the right skills, not a shortage of IT practitioners. The fundamental reasons for this shortage are analysed and explored as the basis for understanding how best to approach recruitment and retention issues. The Guide is underpinned by the NCC's authoritative and independent surveys of IT spending and salaries, and is the first publication of the IT Skills Knowledge Network. This Network is one of a number of expert communities convened by the NCC to define, refine and disseminate dis·sem·i·nate v. dis·sem·i·nat·ed, dis·sem·i·nat·ing, dis·sem·i·nates v.tr. 1. To scatter widely, as in sowing seed. 2. best practice on a range of business critical IT issues. The Guide identifies some clear findings * Effective training and clear career development paths are the best way to retain staff; * The percentage of women in IT has dropped from 290 in 1994 to 18% in 2001; * There is a need for diversity in the workplace; * Flexible rewards and benefits schemes are increasingly sought by staff; * Understand Skills requirements and develop a Skills strategy; * Be aware of `Work-Life Balance' issues - understand your staff and what's important to them. In the light of these findings, the Guide provides detailed analysis and recommendations on: Business issues - determining skills requirements, staff requirements, reward strategies, training and retention incentives; Recruitment - objectives and opportunities, motivating staff, tactical and strategic approaches, workforce diversity Retention - earnings, employability, environment, work-life balance The expression work-life balance was first used in 1986 in the US (although had been used in the UK from the late 1970s by organisations such as New Ways to Work and the Working Mother's Association) to help explain the unhealthy life choices that many people were making; they were , career development, dealing with resignations. www.ncc.co.uk |
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