ITWeb/JCSE IT Skills Survey Round Table discussion
The ITWeb/JCSE IT Skills Survey assesses local ICT skills landscape. The Roundtable held to discuss the results concluded that the recession and the fact that university graduates are emerging into the job market lacking key skills are the major skills issues.
27 January 2010
The round table consisted of: Harold Wesso, acting CEO of Meraka e-Skills Institute; Oupa Mopaki, CEO of ISETT SETA; Janette Cumming, director of Paracon Holdings; Barry Dwolatzky, professor of software engineering at Wits University; Peter Scheffel, executive for Barone, Budge and Dominick; Alison le Roux, executive head of talent acquisition at Vodacom; Sean McLean, university relations manager at IBM; and Inno Masilela, training manager at Tactical Software Services. The round table was chaired by Adrian Schofield, manager of the applied research unit at the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering.
Read the survey results and the round table conclusions here.