| v> | | | | grow in popularity amongst IT students. |
| | | | | According to IT Jobs For Graduates, Java graduate |
| Become a graduate Java specialist | | | | jobs account for more than 5% of the total jobs on |
| Recent research in the United Kingdom has shown an | | | | site. Aside from that these jobs offer advantageous |
| increase in the shortage of IT specialists entering the | | | | salaries starting from £25,000 for a Java graduate |
| sector from 4.2% last year to 6.8% this year, | | | | job position in the United Kingdom. |
| according to the National Computer Centre (NCC). | | | | In the meantime companies like Sun Microsystems |
| The three main factors driving this shortage are; | | | | have already started preparing for the IT skills |
| - According to WhatPC the demand for IT services | | | | shortage, in order to be able to fill Java graduate job |
| and software is driving growth. Last year the | | | | positions in the future. To cope with this future skills |
| industry in the UK was worth £66.5 billion and there | | | | shortage in Java graduates, Sun Microsystems has |
| is therefore a great demand for IT graduates to fill | | | | launched a few initiatives to make programming |
| positions such as graduate developer jobs, java | | | | appeal to the students and young people. These |
| graduate jobs and graduate programmer jobs to | | | | initiatives include Java for kids which is an introduction |
| sustain growth. | | | | to computer programming that provides an |
| - New research has shown that the number of IT | | | | interactive, self-paced tutorial to Java. Students will |
| students has fallen by 50% over the last five years. | | | | learn about project design, object-oriented |
| - With an ageing population there will be a high | | | | programming, console and graphic applications and |
| number of retirees by 2015 with 20% of the work | | | | many elements of the Java language. The tutorial |
| force aged 55 years old or over. | | | | also includes some detailed computer projects for |
| These figures from the IT industry have revealed | | | | students to build and try, through guessing games, |
| that the lack of IT staff has created a substantial | | | | card games, noughts & crosses, and even basic |
| skills shortage in the sector, with over 140,000 new | | | | video games. These initiatives are understandable for |
| recruits needed to fill demand. This is the main reason | | | | kids aged 10 and up, and no programming experience |
| why there is such a push for graduate Java | | | | is necessary, which makes it the perfect way for |
| specialists to enter the field. | | | | kids to start their graduate Java job career. |
| James Gosling, also better knows as the father of | | | | BlueJ is another initiative which provides an integrated |
| the programming languages for Sun Microsystems, | | | | development environment for the Java programming |
| recently announced his concern about the lack of IT | | | | language, developed mainly for educational purposes, |
| education in countries such as the US. He therefore | | | | but also suitable for small-scale software |
| decided to set up partnerships with universities and | | | | development. |
| schools and succeeded to make Java graduate jobs | | | | |