IT jobs for the picking - degree or not

Stan Beer
Sunday, 27 July 2008 16:04

IT People - Enterprise

"Well they're obviously looking at the number of jobs that are posted and doing a kind of analysis on the dip on those jobs. I can only speak from experience, from where we sit, we haven't seen that dip in jobs and our employers who responded to the survey are anticipating that they will be hiring this year."

The two biggest investors in IT&T infrastructure and services in Australia are the government and financial services sectors.

So what about the beleaguered financial services industry? Surely there must be a contraction in that IT&T jobs space? Not so, says Ms Howard.

"In financial services, we're not seeing any major drop-off," she says. "In fact, you would have seen in reports over the last few months that they're embarking on some big programs of work. So there is clearly an appetite for investment in their technology solutions on the financial side."

However, Ms Howard does admit that there has been some impact on IT&T jobs in the federal government sector.

"With government, the biggest impacted area we've seen is in Canberra," she says.

"That's really to do with the (Australian) Gershon Review currently taking place and looking at how they're going to shape either their outsourcing or insourcing of their major pieces of work. We're actually expecting once that review has been completed, the findings are out and there are some decisions made that it will ramp up. We're not expecting it to be flat like it is forever."

So what are the top 3 positions that employers are going to be looking for? Please read on to page 4