Human Resources

If companies want to hire some of the best computer programming minds coming out of university today, they should offer them jobs that challenge their brains, according to a group of Canadian university computer science students.

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Games may be great fun to play, but developing them is no fun. There is a dark side to the gaming industry. Developers labour in the dungeons of major gaming corporations like the subterranean Morlocks in the sci-fi classic The Time Machine, working absurd overtime and enduring bad conditions to produce games for the Eloi-customers frolicking outside.

After more than five years of operation, Pilipinas Teleserv Inc. is finally expanding its business overseas. But the Filipino-owned call centre operator, which has anchored its business on Philippine-based clients -- primarily the government -- is not too keen on looking for foreign investors or expanding as rapidly as the bigger, foreign-owned players.

Industry observers watching the IT security job market are pointing to up-and-coming areas such as computer forensics and wireless security for the hottest jobs. The better-paying positions overall, however, are going to security professionals with management responsibilities rather than simply technical roles.

In the knowledge-based economy the work paradigm of