Category Archives: News

December Visa Statistics: Canada & the USA

Canada, Edmonton Tier 1 Highly Skilled (formerly HSMP) 20% of applications processed within 5 Days 60% of applications processed within 10 Days 100% of applications processed within 15 Days 100% of applications processed within 30 Days 100% of applications processed within 60 Days Total Monthly Decisions: 5 Tier 2 Skilled (formerly Work Permit) 40% of […]

December Visa Statistics: Australia & New Zealand

Australia, Canberra Tier 1 Highly Skilled (formerly HSMP) 69% of applications processed within 5 Days 83% of applications processed within 10 Days 91% of applications processed within 15 Days 98% of applications processed within 30 Days 100% of applications processed within 60 Days Total Monthly Decisions: 56 Tier 2 Skilled (formerly Work Permit) 89% of […]

Online Reputations & Job Applications

The study, conducted in December 2009, was undertaken by 275 recruiters, HR professionals and hiring managers and 330 consumers from France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. A surprising piece of information will surely be that ‘41% of UK Recruiters have rejected candidates based on their online information compared with just 9% of […]

Microsoft Report Record Profits

In response to the results, Peter Klein, Chief Financial Officer at Microsoft said “Exceptional demand for Windows 7 led to the positive top-line growth for the company. Our continuing commitment to managing costs allowed us to drive earnings performance ahead of the revenue growth.” Report Highlights for Microsoft Corporation’s Second Quarter Revenue – $19.02 Billion […]

Turkish ECAA Deadline Approaching

Out of Country ECAA Visa Applications On the 7th September 2009 the UK Border Agency opened up a new route for Turkish Nationals applying under the provisions of the ECAA agreement. Until this date an application could only be made where a Turkish National was already in the United Kingdom, the new route opened the […]

Free Software challenges Adobe & Microsoft

The report published by Global Graphics follows a survey conducted in January 2010 of 400 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) from 300 organisations in the United States and 100 organisations in the United Kingdom. The organisations covered a ‘range of commercial and public sectors’ and each company consisted of 1,000 plus employees. The report highlighted that: […]

Oracle finally acquires Sun Microsystems

In the letter Mr Phillips said ‘There is no doubt that this combination transforms the IT industry. With the addition of servers, storage, SPARC processors, the Solaris operating system, Java, and the MySQL database to Oracle’s portfolio of database, middleware, and business and industry applications, we plan to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems […]

SAP Implementation at Deutsche Bank

In a joint statement Deutsche Bank & SAP (the multinational software development and consulting firm based in Walldorf, Germany) announced plans to start a ‘multi year initiative in 2010’ to replace individual software solutions with a new core banking system based upon SAP for Banking Solutions. The announcement follows a letter of intent agreed between […]