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Recruitmentfair first for UK The reality was quite different. The small size of the exhibition hall meant that stands were too close together with little walking space between them. Candidates queued endlessly waiting to be interviewed which caused bottlenecks. The attendance was high over the two days at over 4000 people, but the calibre was not what most of the exhibitors expected. This was not meant to be a student recruitment fair but an opportunity for experienced personnel to talk to blue chip companies. The first day saw a predominance of graduates, school leavers and unemployed. Few companies saw candidates they were looking for. The vacancies reflected the standards required from junior programmer to senior DP positions, and consultants. Salaries management ranged from 58 000 to around &40 000 though the majority appeared to be in the &lOOOO- &18000 bracket. ICL was looking for VME product consultants, customer software support as well as systems analysts. ‘This is just a trawling inverview session,’
said an ICL spokesman. ‘We are not getting the people we are looking for, the skilled people are not here.’ Another from Synapse Computer Services indicated that only about five per cent of the people he had interviewed had the right technical expertise. Many appeared to be GLC redundancies, he said. Not only did the exhibitors offer criticism, but the candidates said that the job titles on offer did not reflect the job content. One complained that the job titles appeared to be the same as they were five years ago, but the work involved in many DP departments had changed radically. However, the Fair did give exhibitors the opportunity to try an alternative form of recruitment as well as raise their profile in the computer marketplace. Most companies felt it was a worthwhile exercise and hoped to break even at recruiting two to three people. Dependent on this success, they will then make a decision whether to exhibit again at a repeat event to be held in September.
ISDN makes connection
kbitis (B channels) and the one signalling channel (D channel) which together comprise the interface. The box then transmitted the information in 48 bit frames at a rate of 192 kbitis. The PC handled the ISDN software. At the British Telecom end, the equipment consisted of a captive exchange, a remote multiplexer and network terminators (NTls). As a result of the experiment, information is being fed back to the standards committees, with contributions being made to the working groups of both the CCITT and CEPT .
UK. The UK’s first Computing Recruitment Fair took place in April. Thirty companies were invited to exhibit offering a total of 1500 jobs. However this figure did not coincide with the exhibitors numbers of vacancies. Most were testing the water at their first recruitment fair and were more interested in the calibre of candidates attending the fair for future reference than filling particular positions on the spot. Organized jointly by Computer News and Intro UK, which had already established fairs in the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden, the policy behind the recruitment fair was to offer a cost effective method of recruitment and the opportunity for candidates to meet employers and DP managers face to face. To avoid competition, each exhibitor had the same floor space and stand design and charged a flat rate of 54 200 per stand. By limiting the exhibitors to 30 it was hoped that this would :reate a more informal and intimate atmosphere not normally associated with trade fairs.
UK. The integration of worldwide voice and data communications with,n the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) came a step closer when IBM UK and British Telecom juccessfully concluded an experiment :o test signalling protocols based on 1SDN recommendations. The two organizations linked their independmtly developed equipment over a ligital network with a circuit distance If 140 miles.
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The link was made between one of IBM’s London offices and a British Telecom digital exchange in Ipswich. The circuit was tested simultaneously for voice and for data communications from a PC to a mainframe. To achieve the link IBM had developed an interface box and special software for the EC, written mainly in PASCAL. The interface box acted to multiplex and demultiplex the two switched channels operating at 64
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said an ICL spokesman. ‘We are not getting the people we are looking for, the skilled people are not here.’ Another from Synapse Computer Services indicated that only about five per cent of the people he had interviewed had the right technical expertise. Many appeared to be GLC redundancies, he said. Not only did the exhibitors offer criticism, but the candidates said that the job titles on offer did not reflect the job content. One complained that the job titles appeared to be the same as they were five years ago, but the work involved in many DP departments had changed radically. However, the Fair did give exhibitors the opportunity to try an alternative form of recruitment as well as raise their profile in the computer marketplace. Most companies felt it was a worthwhile exercise and hoped to break even at recruiting two to three people. Dependent on this success, they will then make a decision whether to exhibit again at a repeat event to be held in September.
ISDN makes connection
kbitis (B channels) and the one signalling channel (D channel) which together comprise the interface. The box then transmitted the information in 48 bit frames at a rate of 192 kbitis. The PC handled the ISDN software. At the British Telecom end, the equipment consisted of a captive exchange, a remote multiplexer and network terminators (NTls). As a result of the experiment, information is being fed back to the standards committees, with contributions being made to the working groups of both the CCITT and CEPT .
UK. The UK’s first Computing Recruitment Fair took place in April. Thirty companies were invited to exhibit offering a total of 1500 jobs. However this figure did not coincide with the exhibitors numbers of vacancies. Most were testing the water at their first recruitment fair and were more interested in the calibre of candidates attending the fair for future reference than filling particular positions on the spot. Organized jointly by Computer News and Intro UK, which had already established fairs in the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden, the policy behind the recruitment fair was to offer a cost effective method of recruitment and the opportunity for candidates to meet employers and DP managers face to face. To avoid competition, each exhibitor had the same floor space and stand design and charged a flat rate of 54 200 per stand. By limiting the exhibitors to 30 it was hoped that this would :reate a more informal and intimate atmosphere not normally associated with trade fairs.
UK. The integration of worldwide voice and data communications with,n the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) came a step closer when IBM UK and British Telecom juccessfully concluded an experiment :o test signalling protocols based on 1SDN recommendations. The two organizations linked their independmtly developed equipment over a ligital network with a circuit distance If 140 miles.
226
The link was made between one of IBM’s London offices and a British Telecom digital exchange in Ipswich. The circuit was tested simultaneously for voice and for data communications from a PC to a mainframe. To achieve the link IBM had developed an interface box and special software for the EC, written mainly in PASCAL. The interface box acted to multiplex and demultiplex the two switched channels operating at 64
data processing