South Africa’s information technology industry (IT) will need 115 000 professionals ahead of the 2010 Fifa World Cup with Microsoft Certified System Engineers (MCSE) in critical short supply, local IT group said on Tuesday.
IT Intellect’s Cape Town branch manager, Shaun Quin, said the mindset that the IT industry was flooded with MCSE’s was wrong as many of them had never been re-skilled on new software and technology that were introduced over the past five years.
“It is arguably true that five years ago there was an oversupply of MSCE graduates but now, I believe there is a shortage,” he said.
He added that software engineers who received MSCE certificates five years ago, were way behind the technology curve as Microsoft had since launched version 2000, version 2003 and soon there would be version 2005. – I-Net Bridge