IT crisis, depending on your perspective..
According to this article, in the UK,
"... in the past four years demand for IT and computer graduates has doubled while at the same time the number of students studying the subject has declined by a third."
I've also heard similar things from the US in recent weeks. Even India is supposed to be having a skills crisis according to a few articles I've read recently. Demand there is so out of match with supply that the annual wage inflation for IT workers is running at almost 20%. This is all good news for IT workers incomes. More evidence that shifting from academia to industry now might be a good idea.
If all this industry demand is for real, I find it strange that the demand for people doing theoretical AI research appears to be so bleak.
"... in the past four years demand for IT and computer graduates has doubled while at the same time the number of students studying the subject has declined by a third."
I've also heard similar things from the US in recent weeks. Even India is supposed to be having a skills crisis according to a few articles I've read recently. Demand there is so out of match with supply that the annual wage inflation for IT workers is running at almost 20%. This is all good news for IT workers incomes. More evidence that shifting from academia to industry now might be a good idea.
If all this industry demand is for real, I find it strange that the demand for people doing theoretical AI research appears to be so bleak.