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Published on: 11/1/2006
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Cassandra Ashworth, the National EXpress IT Manager stated, "The IT industry is extremely fast paced and perpetually evolving, so it is important that IT students are trained on the latest technologies, keeping abreast of industry changes and be job ready."
"The dilemma of proving their technical abilities is something that many IT aspirants face," she said.
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"The reality is that the information technology marketplace is continuing to expand rapidly in line with the Australian economy, and the demand for skilled professionals in the IT area is exceeding available supply," said EXCOM's EXpress IT National Manager, Cassandra Ashworth.
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"The Australian IT sector over the next few years is going to be facing problems until educational institutes start fuelling the fire with enough appropriately skilled new entrants into the industry," Ms Ashworth said."There are major skill shortages in specialised fields.Those roles require experience that we just don't have enough of across Australia today, and aren't doing enough to prepare for future demands."
Reflecting the ongoing corporate demand for qualified IT professionals, EXCOM has had no problem in being able to place 100 per cent of its Express IT program graduates.
"Every person that has been through our program, which provides training in key IT platforms such as Microsoft and Novell, has been placed into a job on completion, and in many cases graduates are allocated for positions well before they have finished," Ms Ashworth said."The latest industry figures show that employment in the Australian technology sector is rising strongly and is close to a record high," Ms Ashworth said.
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Cassandra Ashworth, Express IT National Manager Tel: (03) 9696 7706 or Mobile 0439 977 870
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"We are finding that more and more students are enrolling into our courses rather than paying huge fees to go to university and then finding that they can't get a job because they are not sufficiently skilled on a technical level and are not job ready," says EXCOM EXpress IT National Manager, Cassandra Ashworth."We actually have a number of students who have already obtained university undergraduate and masters degrees, and who have enrolled in our program just to get up to the IT skill level that employers are demanding.More students are also coming into the program straight from high school because of the same reasons and because the cost of doing a program like ours is substantially cheaper than going to university and spending upwards of $50,000."
Ms Ashworth says universities and other tertiary programs are simply not meeting the needs of employers in teaching their IT students the knowledge and hands-on skills required to get a job.By comparison, EXCOM's Express IT program guarantees job placement for all students on completion, and often students are offered positions before they have completed the program.
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Cassandra Ashworth, EXpress IT National Manager Tel: (03) 9696 7706 or Mobile 0439 977 870
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EXCOM's Express IT National Manager, Cassandra Ashworth, adds "The Australian IT sector over the next few years is going to be facing problems until educational institutes start fuelling the fire with enough appropriately skilled new entrants into the industry".
"There are major skill shortages in specilased fields; these roles require experience that we just don't have enough off across Australia today and aren't doing enough to prepare for future demands" Ashworth states.
EXCOM's EXpress IT Program produces trained and certified graduates through hands on technical training and experience, creating ideal candidates for entry level positions, including Help Desk support, network administration and PC support.
Ms Ashworth said the program had a 100 per cent job placement rate nationally with an average placement time of just over three weeks.EXCOM is really bridging the gap as they guarantee its Express IT graduates an IT job with four months of completing the intensive, and quick, training program.
"We recognise the "catch-22" situation the majority of graduates face , how do I get my first job when employers want me to have IT experience, so how do I get IT experience when I cant get my first job.We get their first job for them, and bridge that gap", states Koukounaras
According to Ms Ashworth, the Australian Technology industry is "on the up" again and has been gathering momentum due to a healthy Australian economy.
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Cassandra Ashworth, EXCOM's National Express IT course, identifies an acute shortage of Windows 2003 Server Project Management.She attributes this to project managers dropping out from the industry in the dot com crash and the Y2K non-event."Since then there has been economic relief and some people are up grading to Windows XP and 2003 now," she says.
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Ms Cassandra Ashworth, National Manager of EXCOM Education's EXpress IT training and job placement program has seen first hand the effect that the skill drought has had.
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