That's an important point, as there is a apparent lack of interest in IT as a career among school students, which may be due to the lingering echoes of the 'tech wreck' early this decade plus the more recent trend to offshoring. IT is no longer seen by students and their advisors as a reasonably safe, challenging and rewarding career, but rather one involving long hours of drudge work, ordinary pay, poor prospects and a good chance of periods of unemployment. The 2006 survey of graduate employment and salaries did little to put the gloss back on the idea of an IT career. 

AIIA chairman Peter Kazacos said "Building and maintaining a world-class ICT workforce is necessary to meet the current and future needs of the economy. ICT is becoming more pervasive and more embedded in every aspect of human activity.  So, we are going to need more people with ICT skills, not fewer."{moscomment}