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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Sunday, 10 February 2008 | |
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The number might just be enough to meet India's demand. According to a recent IDC report on global skills, cited by Cisco, India's surging economic development will create a demand for 137,000 more networking professionals by 2009. Australia too has a shortage of skilled network engineers, as Cisco highlighted last year, and a massive increase of skilled people in India could further fuel the outsourcing of those jobs that can be outsourced, or lead to employers importing skilled workers, either as permanent residents or on contract. Both outsourcing and the use of contract staff would further exacerbate the skills shortage: those with the higher level skills gained from on-the-job experience would not be within the Australian labour pool. In late 2007 Cisco Australia briefed journalists to try and raise awareness of what the company sees as a major global issue, and provide some details of its own contribution to addressing the shortage. Kevin Bloch, Cisco's director advanced technologies and engineering, pointed out that, video and its demands aside, the number of networked devices on the planet is growing exponentially: there are some 300 million PCs, some three billion cellphones and upwards of a trillion RFID devices and sensors, and this generates huge demand for network engineering skills. |
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