Hard times for IT graduates

I KEEP on reading about the shortage of IT graduates expected in a few years when we come out of this recession and how students shouldn’t be switching courses.

I have never read about the countless IT graduates around the country who have been unemployed for the past year or two.

There are people with years of good IT experience who are now on the dole and have little prospect of finding work in the coming months.

I am lucky enough to have had several years’ work, but I would fear for anyone graduating in IT.

I’m sure things will turn around, but for the moment we should be concentrating on helping the thousands of unemployed IT people either to find employment or, as I am doing, to retrain.

Conor Ryan,

3, Elm Drive,

Caherdavin Lawn,

Limerick