Indigenous Australians are being given a look into the world of IT and opportunities for employment in the industry with the launch today of an initiative by telecommunications specialist, Comscentre, in partnership with the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES).

Entry level salaries for the ICT industry are up and employers are increasingly looking for staff who are multi-skilled, according to the latest survey of the market by Excom Education.

Cognizant of a recent ACS survey which found that IT graduates in Australia were technically proficient but not ‘work-ready', Dimension Data has implemented a training program for new graduates which gives them professional technical training and hands-on industry experience at the same time, to better prepare them for going into the workforce.

An IBM-funded Future Leaders Scholarship program will fund a dozen Bachelor of Business students. The first recipients have been selected.

Indonesia is attracting more companies to use its outsourcing services, with the quality of its labour force, particularly IT graduates, underpinning the growth in services.