Skills Guarantee procurement guide released by DEWR Economy & Industry Procurement Connected applies to Commonwealth procurement in construction and ICT worth $10 million or more.
Premium Insights and analysis Budget 2024: What we know about Future Made in Australia May 5, 2024 By Dan Holmes Economy & Industry Treasurer Jim Chalmers spruiks “fourth economy” in a Future Made in Australia speech ahead of federal Budget 2024.
APSC announces 24% CALD target for SES ranks April 30, 2024 By Dan Holmes Federal The CALD employment strategy sets out clear standards and expectations that the APS needs to better reflect the community it serves.
The five most in-demand skills in the government sector in 2024 March 18, 2024 By Bernadette Bentley Career Matters A government recruitment agency says there’s been a spike in demand in for specific jobs nationally and lists the strong in-demand skills.
New DTA marketplace live, several procurement crackdowns included March 18, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology Digital Marketplace Panel 2 has landed for tech suppliers to the government; gender-equity-target failure exclusions are on the way.
VET needs more attention to solve public sector tech skills shortage March 11, 2024 By Dan Holmes Education With 61% of VET providers prioritising ICT courses, TAFE can provide IT qualifications more quickly, less expensively than universities can.
State of the Service? Yet again, tech and digital top APS declared critical skills shortages November 30, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Career Advice It’s crisis-as-usual on the APS IT recruitment front. The (not) good news is a data nerd shortfall is breathing down the neck of developers.
Premium Insights and analysis DITRDCA on clarity mission to work out exactly what it wants to achieve for Australia September 18, 2023 By Melissa Coade Editors' Picks DITRDCA is an organisation that can be forgiven for wondering who and what it is, and it needs to update its narrative and purpose statement.
Tech skills, recognition finally hit APS pay bargaining table June 27, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Federal With the huge public-private tech skills pay gap officially exposed, the CPSU is backing government IT staff for a real wage increase.
WA launches grad program to attract next gen of ICT bureaucrats June 5, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Communications & Technology The state government hopes to recruit 40 graduates with ICT expertise for the WA’s public service.
How the first APS pay bargaining offer translates into cash, cost to taxpayers: a few graphs May 16, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Community & Social Obviously, the fatter the APS pay packet the fatter the rise, but there are also swings and roundabouts. This is how it looks in graph form.
Services Australia reveals APS tech salaries now +$100k behind market February 16, 2023 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology Senator David Pocock has extracted what outsourced Centrelink IT contractors get really cost: $1,300 a day or almost $300k a year.
Services Australia contractor cull cuts 1,000 positions November 30, 2022 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology Australia’s welfare agency is terminating hundreds of temporary tech staff just before Christmas, under a new policy to slash contractors.
Percentage of women in APS continues to grow but gender equity issues persist November 24, 2022 By Anna Macdonald Culture The makeup of the APS is now 60.4% female, although that number changes depending on classification level.
Premium Insights and analysis Release your inner nerd: Thistlewaite tells Defence techies to dev-up October 16, 2022 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology When Defence’s whole IT shop is a target, the entire organisation needs to be constantly developing, testing and deploying better security.
