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  Revealed: What students think of tech work - Management - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com 

  http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39250355,00.htm?r=1

  If IT is to plug its skills gap by attracting graduates from other disciplines the industry needs to convince students the work can be as exciting as its potentially wallet-fattening pay packets. Research ... released today by a career development charity CRAC has found students' main reason for avoiding going into IT is a perception the work will be dull, dull, dull. CIO50 2008: Top 10 The UK's leading CIOs revealed 1. Robin Dargue Royal Mail 2. David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland 3. Neil Cameron Unilever 4. Catherine Doran Network Rail 5. John Suffolk UK government 6. Gordon Lovell-Read Siemens UK 7. Paul Coby British Airways 8. Tania Howarth Birds Eye Iglo Group 9. Simon Post Carphone Warehouse 10. Ben Wishart Whitbread More than 60 per cent of non-computing students cited "boring work" as the primary reason they would avoid joining the sector. Yet the vast majority of the nearly 2,000 students surveyed believe IT offers good career prospects and highly paid jobs. This is good news as i   [More...] [Less...]

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