To boost their chances in today's highly competitive job market, retrenched IT professionals looking for employment need to extend their focus and be proactive in their hunt, say recruiters.

Although one in five IT organizations in the region say they are likely to cut jobs this year, opportunities remain for retrenched IT workers, new research shows. The 2009 Employment Trends Report, ...

A meeting with his HR manager at IBM spelled doom for 43-year old software engineer Amarnath S*. He was told that he was no longer needed in the company. The father of two teenagers now wonders what ...

The majority of retrenched employees of the now-defunct Jetstar Asia have already secured interviews or landed jobs in other firms, according to union leader Ng Chee Meng. Ng, Secretary-General of the ...