graduates in comment and analysis
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Our industry is demonstrably unkind to the over-40s and India alone, I'm told, is churning out 250,000 IT graduates from its universities each year, all eager to compete for our increasingly outsourced and overpaid European technology jobs. [17 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Migrant techies and BBC web budget busters…
Comment So we started by bemoaning the lack of graduates, then went to preferentially importing immigrants with the right skills, then with extreme reluctance admitted that women might be able to do the job, completely ignored all the people over 40 with... [05 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... 'me hearties shun Vista… techies on the move?… bosses out of tune
Comment Most universities have moved away from teaching essential and widely used skills like COBOL, leaving the graduates without skills to replace these retiring experts. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest... [06 Dec 2007]
Nandan Nilekani
AS Profile Panellists specifically commented on Infosys's decision to bring in talent from around the world, recruiting graduates from the US, UK and Europe. Nilekani stood down as CEO and MD of Infosys in June to become co-chairman of the board of directors... [12 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.07.07
Round-Up Around this time of year, all over the country, fresh-faced graduates are emerging into the real world after three or more years of academia and looking at the road ahead. However, the very same graduates flocking to finance and elsewhere may have... [13 Jul 2007]
The McCue Interview: Richard Snooks, CIO, Capital & Regional
Comment He's also critical of the quality of graduates from university IT courses. However that picture of the sector is slowly changing at London-based Capital & Regional, which focuses on property asset management in the retail and leisure sectors. [09 Jul 2007]
Q&A: Microsoft UK head of innovation Jim Lawn
Comment Lawn recently co-judged an Oxbridge version of Dragon's Den that saw students pitching their business ideas and facing an eight-minute grilling from the panel.silicon.com: There has been a lot of criticism that computing graduates are coming to... [01 Mar 2007]
Where did Dell go wrong?
Comment Unfortunately, most of them also associate only with their fellow business school graduates so they are often culturally disconnected from their customer base, which can and often does include 13-year-olds and IT managers at corporate branch... [01 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.01.07
Round-Up Unemployment among IT graduates is at 10.3 per cent whereas art and design sees 10.2 per cent of students end up on the jobless list, compared to 8.6 per cent among media studies students and an incredible 6.6 per cent among performing arts... [05 Jan 2007]
Leader: Closing the skills gap
Leader Despite this skills shortage it was surprising to learn this week that IT graduates have the highest unemployment rates of university leavers across all degree subjects - including performing arts and media studies. [04 Jan 2007]
Unwired: The office of the future
Comment They're attracting the best graduates, keen to work in this vibrant environment and the socialising leads to the sharing of knowledge, business leads and opportunities. Which technologies and working styles will dominate the office of the future? [15 Nov 2006]
Leader: Are the kids really 'all that'?
Leader Of course not but do you really want the tech-savvy, business-naïve teens and recent graduates getting their hands on your books? Google CEO Eric Schmidt has joined the growing ranks of tech leaders who are saying the coming generations of tech... [19 Oct 2006]
Leader: Are IT workers so badly off?
Leader Just last month a government agency deemed IT one of the most boring jobs for graduates. In the midst of the August 'silly season', a survey has appeared which claims three-quarters of techies hate their jobs - quite a substantial proportion. [16 Aug 2006]
Leader: Bored at work? Change job - not career
Leader One questionable feature of the research is that it was only graduates who were surveyed. Are you bored at work? You should be - according to a piece of research out this week. We've all been there - stuck with hours to kill before something... [27 Jul 2006]
Big bucks in China's software industry
Comment And software companies argue that although there are a large number of IT graduates, finding the people with the right skills is proving difficult. It might not receive the attention that internet- and even mobile-related sectors get but, finds Dan... [26 Jul 2006]
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