Importance of ICT (Information Communication Technology) is not unknown to us. Almost every sector is depending more on ICT for increased productivity, it is becoming a function like finance and human resources in many non-tech companies and gaining high momentum every day. There is huge need for skilled personnel in various technologies.

However ICT sector has been experiencing a slide in skilled executives and at the same time countries around the world are seeing slump in number of students opting ICT as field of study. This is a clear indication of how university education is unable to meet the skill needs as expected by employers which has resulted in huge number of IT graduates being left unemployed or underemployed even when there are numerous jobs available.

For long the debate has been going on if it is the responsibility of the government or the universities or the employers to provide up to the mark skilled training to the youth. The technology sector does not find it as a plausible solution to depend on the government to bridge the existing gap. Universities are extending partnership with training institutions to make their courses more useful for the youth making them job ready. Companies such as Microsoft, Cloud and HP have been devising many curriculums to deploy enhanced training for the youth and ever in a lookout for tangible platforms.

A study into employment in the Australian (ICT) industry estimates that Australia will need an additional 33,000 ICT professionals by mid 2017 and that there will be insufficient skilled workers to meet this demand. - Australian Workforce Productivity Agency (AWPA). Yet ICT graduates are finding it difficult to find suitable employment. 

It is important to enable the youth today by offering them courses that are skill centric making them employable. Measures to remove the fear of unemployment is imperative as increased number of unemployment and the situation where the youth are at loss of ideas on what should be done with future, disheartened youth with huge burden of loans and underemployment is resulting in loss of hope in IT(Information Technology) education among newer generations.

Information Technology jobs are on an increase and so is technology ever developing. Students need access to hands on learning aiding to skill acquirement in live simulations. IIHT Technologies is a training institute in ICT and IM (Infrastructure Management). Recognizing the need for skill centric training and hands on environment, IIHT Technologies has pioneered in creating structure training programs in many IT and IM technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, Virtualization, IT Security, Programming, Network Management and other latest and trending technologies. Careers in IT are a step away once the course is completed. Partnership with Microsoft, Cisco, and VMware are crucial for such courses as they prepare the youth and make them truly job ready. IIHT Technologies franchises across Asia and Africa has achieved success as a result of success of its students.

Youth are in need for IT proffering such as of IIHT Technologies’ due to the ability of its education and training to transform youth as skilled IT majors. Students of IIHT Technologies have been taking up ICT jobs from Major IT companies of the world.

Such initiatives could help many countries in attending to the crisis of skill slide and students slump in the ICT sector.

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