Story: UK sees worst IT skills shortage for a decade

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ShortFall? from an ex student

Being a graduate in IT i was among a great deal of people in IT, It took me 20 interviews to actually get a job, i don't think it is lack of skills it became apparent that companies wanted experience over qualifications or both in a nice low paid package. Even with a job having these qualifications don't make any difference regarding duties and wages, well it seems that way from my angle qualifications are not as valuable as experience doing a set of tasks even if they allow you to do more than one set of tasks.

Having been through it all i can say if i had know then i would not of bothered as much as 34K debt and a wage that barely covers the student loans and tax on top of that working life is the same as student life, of having to cut corners on food etc. The whole thing leaves me with yey i got bits of paper allowing me to do lots of high skilled jobs but those without that paper and just have experience seem to be better off.

To cut his short the skills are there they are just being over looked and most graduates cannot get a job using the skills they went to uni to get and even with the job the wages are normally lower. I think the government needs to work on helping students more instead of punishing them for trying to better themselves.

also the industry needs to start looking at graduates and making the most of the qualifications thy work for, after all they will never get experience's in their chosen field if no one hires them to use the skills they studied for.

Sorry for the rant but this is how it feels from an ex student point of view

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