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Skills Shortage Will Worsen Unless Industry Seeds IT Talent in Universities

A new study warns of dire consequences if the industry doesn’t work with higher education to promote the viability of IT as a career.

If systems integrators and customers don’t become more proactive in seeding new IT talent, the shortage of skilled technical and sales personnel could become dire in the coming years, preliminary findings of a new study from Forrester Research show.

Enrollment in college, university and trade-school programs focused on IT and programming is significantly down, said Laurie Orlov, vice president and research director at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester, and the keynote speaker at a luncheon Tuesday at the VARBusiness 500 Conference in New York.

Orlov said the report will offer a call to action to customers and solution providers to work more closely with institutions of higher learning to promote the viability of IT as a career and the likely need for skilled personnel over the long term.

By Jeffrey Schwartz
VARBusiness

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