'Students believe IT jobs to be boring'
26/06/2008(17:04)
Despite believing the IT sector has a bright future, the majority of students perceive jobs in the industry to be boring, research has found.
In a poll of 2,000 undergraduates by Crac: The Career Development Organisation, more than 60 per cent of non-computing students cited boring work as the main reason for not wanting to join the IT sector.
The British Computer Society (BCS), which launched the research, claims its findings come at a time when half of IT employers are struggling to fill vacancies and numbers of computing students are falling.
In addition, fewer than ten per cent of respondents said the benefits of a computing degree had been effectively communicated to them while at school.
"We need to encourage more students to study computer science and computer related studies at universities in order to ensure that the IT industry can meet the demand for workers in the future," said Mike Rodd, director of BCS Learned Society, which is currently driving an outreach campaign at schools.
Careers author Sarah Berry recently claimed that IT jobs are "more credit crunch-proof" than those in other sectors as companies rely on the skills of their existing employees rather than outsourcing work.
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