[Year 12 IT Apps] What Future IT?

[Helen Chenoby]

Hi Keith,

Please let me know who is desperate for skilled and qualified IT system 
engineers,
programmers etc ? I will send my husband CV (Master degree in Maths and 
Computer Science )  and my IT CV and we will see what is happening in real 
IT market ...

Cheers,

Helen

Maths/IT teacher looking for full time employment for 4 years


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Richardson" <keithcr at fastmail.fm>
To: "itapps list" <itapps at edulists.com.au>; "List ITA" 
<itapps at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 5:23 PM
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] What Future IT?


>I have read with interest the many contributions to this ongoing
> discussion.
> The REAL situation out there in the workplace...
> One of my sons is a software engineer who has worked in the industry for
> around 10 years.
> They are desperate for skilled and qualified IT system engineers,
> programmers etc. People with the necessary qualifications can almost
> name the salary they want.
> I think that we are all suffering the extended backlash from the
> tech-bubble-bursting. Immediately prior to it, many hopeful
> wannabee-millionaires studied IT, some of whom were really unsuited to
> it either psychologically or intellectually or interest-wise, so some in
> the industry welcomed the clean-out that happened, but it has gone too
> far, and people's memories are long.
> Sorry, these observations are no solution, but I would like to know what
> is going on in the hundreds of brains who would have chosen IT in the
> past, but now are not.
> FACT - there are plenty of good-paying jobs out there for everyone who
> get IT qualifications.
> NEED -  we need to get this message through to all and sundry - career
> advisers, parents, friends & relatives who give ill-informed-advice, and
> the kids themselves.
> Cheers, Keith
> Keith Richardson
>
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