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IT professionals turning to small firms for work

20 August 2009 • 1 min read

Recruitment firm sees flood of candidates preferring to work for SMEs during downturn

IT staff are turning to SME jobs More than 70 per cent of IT professionals moving to a new job in the past three months have been gone to work for small businesses, according to recruitment firm ...

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