There has long been the suspicion that a number of recruitment agencies use fake job board advertisements in their never-ending mission to harvest fresh CV's from job seekers. All contractors know this happens, and the various contractor discussion boards contain numerous postings on this subject. Although industry guidelines forbid the use of 'phantom vacancy' ads, we all know they are used on a daily basis.

A growing number of overseas techies are taking mid-tier IT jobs.

The bench is busier now than at any time in the last three years.

Whitehall thinks the online encyclopaedia is too good, or bad, to put down.

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Banks emerge as the hardest hit IT spenders of the credit crunch.

Contractors are always complaining about the 'tricks' that agents get up to, in order to 'rip them off', find out who's recruiting, and to get them to sign contracts before they go to other interviews etc.

The value of offerings to buy-to-let Britons has halved.

Export your code are you're more likely to be hacked, clients are told.