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Technology people Entry level salaries up for ICT industry
Technology people Entry level salaries up for ICT industry | Entry level salaries up for ICT industry |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Monday, 05 October 2009 | |
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Most popular skills tags.NET Active Directory C# Cisco Development HTML Infrastructure Management Network Oracle Project Management SAP SDLC SQL Server Support Sybase TCP/IP Unix VB.NET Web Services/SOAP XML“Along with the salary increase our students are being placed within 2.5 weeks of completing their course – further vindication that the industry is travelling well. Enrolments are still strong. If anything, we have recorded an increased demand for more enrolments for our deluxe and masters programs indicating that students are willing to spend more on their technology education so as to acquire better skills to set them apart from the rest of the pack.” Ashworth attributes the rise in salary for technology workers to companies being more select in choosing the right candidate and being willing to pay for that. “Employers are currently looking to do more with less. Having staff with multi skills, knowing how platforms work with each other and the soft skills to articulate to clients is a powerful combination.” According to Ashworth, the results of Excom’s survey are in line with the recent survey conducted by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council which highlighted that 70 per cent of ICT graduates wish they had undertaken more work experience when at university. CONTINUED PAGE 2 |
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