Kerching!! After the bad news recently some good news.
From The Times
Olympics signals race for IT talent
By Elizabeth Judge
BRITISH companies may be about to face a “brain drain” of IT staff as technology experts race to find lucrative work providing computer systems for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Atos Origin, the Paris-listed company that is contracted by the International Olympic Committee to manage the IT systems for the London Games, wants to recruit thousands of British IT specialists.
The project will be one of the biggest and most high-profile IT challenges in Britain since the millennium bug, which saw thousands of IT contractors poached from British companies to deal with a “year 2000” computer crisis. Systems worldwide were expected to collapse because they would not be able to cope with the change in date from 1999 to 2000.
Atos will use its own 46,000 employees but it has to work on the Beijing Games until 2008 and has confirmed that it will also be looking for local, British IT professionals as early as next year to help with London. The work will involve everything from building secure IT systems to hold data on the athletes and other people involved in the event to ensuring the fast display of results on the internet and elsewhere.
Richard Banks, of Computer Futures, the British-based recruitment specialists, said: “The Olympic work will be exciting, sexy work for people to get involved in. People will be approached for particular projects.” IT professionals from the public sector would be likely targets, he said.
Atos has been contracted to provide all IT work at the Olympic Games since 1998. Recently it had its contract renewed through to the 2012 Games.
Patrick Adiba, an executive vice-president at Atos, said: “As we did in Athens, we will be looking for potentially thousands of local people to get involved — some of them contractors, some of them as volunteers.”
Atos will send its own team to London to start work in earnest once the Beijing Games have finished in
From The Times
Olympics signals race for IT talent
By Elizabeth Judge
BRITISH companies may be about to face a “brain drain” of IT staff as technology experts race to find lucrative work providing computer systems for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Atos Origin, the Paris-listed company that is contracted by the International Olympic Committee to manage the IT systems for the London Games, wants to recruit thousands of British IT specialists.
The project will be one of the biggest and most high-profile IT challenges in Britain since the millennium bug, which saw thousands of IT contractors poached from British companies to deal with a “year 2000” computer crisis. Systems worldwide were expected to collapse because they would not be able to cope with the change in date from 1999 to 2000.
Atos will use its own 46,000 employees but it has to work on the Beijing Games until 2008 and has confirmed that it will also be looking for local, British IT professionals as early as next year to help with London. The work will involve everything from building secure IT systems to hold data on the athletes and other people involved in the event to ensuring the fast display of results on the internet and elsewhere.
Richard Banks, of Computer Futures, the British-based recruitment specialists, said: “The Olympic work will be exciting, sexy work for people to get involved in. People will be approached for particular projects.” IT professionals from the public sector would be likely targets, he said.
Atos has been contracted to provide all IT work at the Olympic Games since 1998. Recently it had its contract renewed through to the 2012 Games.
Patrick Adiba, an executive vice-president at Atos, said: “As we did in Athens, we will be looking for potentially thousands of local people to get involved — some of them contractors, some of them as volunteers.”
Atos will send its own team to London to start work in earnest once the Beijing Games have finished in
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