Author Archive

December 9th, 2011

Managing High Risk Health

Appeared in: HCA Magazine
Author: Iain Hopkins
Date: December 2011

“Life is part of your time at work”

Check out Peoplebank’s comments in this month’s Human Capital Magazine.

November 24th, 2011

Inside SAP - What are your skills worth?

Appeared in: Inside SAP Yearbook
Author: Freya Purnell
Date: November 2011

Are SAP salaries the bananas of the IT world? Inside SAP uses Peoplebank’s data to chart the current market in its annual Yearbook.

Click here for the full article.

November 9th, 2011

Working from home can be productive

Appeared in: smh.com.au
Author: Sue White
Date: 29th of October 2011

Working from home can be productive, providing you follow a few guidelines.

Being the first to push a boundary is often nerve-racking, as the Peoplebank executive Michelle Cooper found when returning from maternity leave last year.

September 30th, 2011

Technology wage growth defies economic gloom

Appeared in: The Australian
Author: Jennifer Foreshaw
Date: 13th of September 2011

ECONOMIC uncertainty has not dampened tech sector salary growth. Rises are generally in line or slightly above the consumer price index and some specialty roles have a “retention premium”, a survey finds. Peoplebank, Australia’s largest IT recruiter, today released its quarterly salary survey, which tracks rates and salaries in more than 50 IT roles across the country’s capital cities.

It shows demand for technology skills continued to grow in Sydney, Canberra and Perth and remained steady in Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.

September 30th, 2011

IT jobs stable amid economic uncertainty

Appeared in: ZDNet.com.au
Author: Josh Taylor
Date: 13th of September 2011

Amid global economic fears, IT workers were in top demand in the last quarter but bosses weren’t willing to cough up much extra cash, according to the latest survey by IT recruiter Peoplebank.

The latest in the company’s quarterly survey of 50 IT roles in Australian capital cities found that in the last quarter to the beginning of this month, pay rises in those roles were in line or just slightly better than the CPI (consumer price index). Peoplebank noted that the pay rises tended to be in roles that had not had a pay rise in the last year, and were most common in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide.