Demand for IT Graduates Still High

November 26, 2007: A recent survey by an IT recruitment site in the UK has shown that the global demand for IT graduates is still surging ahead.

In a grim sign that things are only getting worse in the IT skills shortage crisis, the latest survey of 50 key organisations by the UK based IT jobs for graduate’s shows that 56% of organisations plan to increase their graduate hiring numbers in 2008.

Contrasted to this is a mere 8% of organisations planning to decrease their graduate intake and 36% planning to keep it steady.

“With the shortage of young people entering the IT industry, it is imperative that we keep a positive view of the employment outlook – especially within the banking sector. The results of this survey confirm our beliefs that it’s still a strong sector from an IT perspective, and graduates are still very much in demand.” Said Alex Farrell, Director at the IT Job Board Group.

Interestingly some of the open comments from the survey indicated that a lot of projects are still running and scheduled for 2008 and marked graduate recruitment as a new source of talent to ease the pangs of the skills shortage.

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