kevinh
15-11-2007, 08:44 AM
An article in the Fin Review earlier this week made reference to a "demographic time bomb" which is forecast to hit IT industry in the USA. Research indicates that over the next 12 years 5 million new workers will enter the US IT industry, while 25 million will retire!
I believe we will have similar problems here in Australia, the numbers will be smaller but as a proportion of our workforce they will be similar to the US. To some extent this is due to the IT market bubble bursting after Y2K and school leavers avoiding IT at university level, but even if our shortage is not quite as acute as that in the US, the US will almost certainly be looking to attract skills from other countries and Australia will be high in their hit list.
I believe we will have similar problems here in Australia, the numbers will be smaller but as a proportion of our workforce they will be similar to the US. To some extent this is due to the IT market bubble bursting after Y2K and school leavers avoiding IT at university level, but even if our shortage is not quite as acute as that in the US, the US will almost certainly be looking to attract skills from other countries and Australia will be high in their hit list.