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IMIS 2006 IT Skills Trends Report released
"Quality not quantity: Handling the challenges of global competition for ICT jobs" the synopsis IMIS 2006 IT Skills Trends Report will be released to the press at 18.00 on Wednesday 5th April
The headline points include:
"Advertised salaries … have failed to keep pace with …wage inflation for the second year running because previously outsourced jobs are now subcontracted to India and the Far East. … recruitment effort for skilled and experienced ICT staff …is falling and there are reports of hundreds of suitable candidates applying for vacancies"
BUT
"The neglect of the skills necessary to identity applications requirements ….means that those with relevant training and experience …now command a growing premium … current on-line systems are rarely designed to make good use of the customer’s time … Hence the implosion of e-commerce as paying customers migrate to those websites …whose reputation is such that they are content to accept performance enhancing spyware."
ALSO
"Recruitment effort for the skills necessary to deliver the infrastructure for the 2012 Olympics will peak in 2008 - 9. If the planned transformation of government services, is built around large scale, shared service contracts …there will be a similar peak ... Those who do not start planning reskilling and retention programmes ... will therefore face growing problems from spring 2008 onwards …the Olympic programmes will then be handled by contractors drafted in from around the world while non-Olympic programmes will fall by the wayside … The reputations of those who did not plan ahead are unlikely to survive "
The author, Philip Virgo, Strategic Advisor to the Institute for the Management of Information Systems, will be available on 020 8761 5926 for most of the 5th and 6th April for comment.
A summary of the report is available as a PDF file.
