Neil Williams

Neil Williams, CIO at the University of Derby and finalist in the CIO of the Year category of the 2012 UK IT Industry Awards, speaks to BCS about his career and what it takes to be a top CIO.

Neil Williams: What makes a top CIO?

Susan Cooklin, CIO at Network Rail and winner of the CIO of the Year category of the 2012 UK IT Industry Awards, speaks to BCS about her career and what it takes to be a top CIO.

Susan Cooklin: What makes a top CIO?

Phil Pavitt, CIO at HMRC and finalist in the CIO of the Year category of the 2012 UK IT Industry Awards, speaks to BCS about his career and what it takes to be a top CIO.

Phil Pavitt: What makes a top CIO?

Lance Fisher

Lance Fisher, CIO at Sthree and finalist in the CIO of the Year category of the 2012 UK IT Industry Awards, speaks to BCS about his career and what it takes to be a top CIO.

Lance Fisher: What makes a top CIO?

James Fairhurst, CIO at Hastings Insurance and finalist in the CIO of the Year category of the 2012 UK IT Industry Awards, speaks to BCS about his career and what it takes to be a top CIO.

James Fairhurst: What makes a top CIO?

A case study on how Microsoft went about formally demonstrating professional credentials.

Demonstrating professional credentials

Steve Dennis, SQS Director, Training &amp; Conferences Division, talks to BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT about the testing market, related job opportunities, the skills needed by testers and what the future holds for software quality assurance and testing training.

Software quality and testing as a career

A case study on a first class professional development scheme acknowledged through accreditation.

Driving greater professionalism in IT

A case study on how Colt aimed to raise IT employee satisfaction through clear career progression.

Raise IT employee satisfaction

When the game development firm DR Studios’ Clive Robert and his colleagues worked for struggled to get staff with the right skills, they decided something needed to be done. They launched Train2Game, a blended learning college that offers courses to qualify games designers, games developers or games artists and animators. Henry Tucker spoke to Clive about the college.

Training for gaming

Ali meets Chris Muktar, who is Entrepreneur at WikiJob, the UK's largest graduate jobs website.

ExcITing careers: Social networking

Ali meets Adam Carr, who is Systems Administrator at Jagex Games Studio, a world-leading developer of high-quality, browser-based games.

ExcITing careers: Gaming

Ali meets Sophie Tatham, who is Senior Programmer at MX Telecom, a leader in the field of wireless technology, providing specialist wirelesss IT services to various corporate partners

ExcITing careers: Wireless

For a fast-evolving global organisation like Unilever, change is a fact of life, and exploiting IT effectively is one of the company’s key weapons in the race for competitive advantage.

Ensuring best practice

Ali meets James Proud, Teenpreneur and founder of GigLocator, a website that enables like-minded lovers of live music to find and keep up-to-date with gigs.

ExcITing careers: Teenpreneurs

Ali meets Talli Peled, Digital Lighting Director at Framestore, the largest visual effects and computer animation studio in Europe. She is one of the few female animators, with credits like the Golden Compass to her name.

ExcITing careers: Film animation

Ali meets Phil Yates, who works as web programmer at Codegent, a web development and online marketing agency.

ExcITing careers: Web development

Ali meets Perry Price, Innovations Director are Dare, an interactive marketing agency that specialises in marketing for the digital world.

ExcITing careers: Digital marketing

Stephanie Dedhar, Senior Instructional Designer at Saffron Interactive, was the first to win the newly introduced IITT Instructional Designer of the Year Award. In this interview, she explains what her job is all about and what is important when trying to engage the learner.

Instructional design: In the learner's shoes

Over the last few years, IT security has become one of the top choices for IT professionals and those looking to move into IT. So what is the best way to become one of the much-envied chief information security officers (CISO) or join the league of sought-after hacker-combatants? Gary Flood investigates.

Getting into the IT security job market

Careers in IT

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