Become a graduate Java specialist

v>grow in popularity amongst IT students.
 According to IT Jobs For Graduates, Java graduate
Become a graduate Java specialistjobs account for more than 5% of the total jobs on
Recent research in the United Kingdom has shown ansite. Aside from that these jobs offer advantageous
increase in the shortage of IT specialists entering thesalaries 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 servicesshortage, in order to be able to fill Java graduate job
and software is driving growth. Last year thepositions in the future. To cope with this future skills
industry in the UK was worth £66.5 billion and thereshortage in Java graduates, Sun Microsystems has
is therefore a great demand for IT graduates to filllaunched a few initiatives to make programming
positions such as graduate developer jobs, javaappeal to the students and young people. These
graduate jobs and graduate programmer jobs toinitiatives include Java for kids which is an introduction
sustain growth.to computer programming that provides an
- New research has shown that the number of ITinteractive, 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 highprogramming, console and graphic applications and
number of retirees by 2015 with 20% of the workmany 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 revealedstudents to build and try, through guessing games,
that the lack of IT staff has created a substantialcard games, noughts & crosses, and even basic
skills shortage in the sector, with over 140,000 newvideo games. These initiatives are understandable for
recruits needed to fill demand. This is the main reasonkids aged 10 and up, and no programming experience
why there is such a push for graduate Javais 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 ofBlueJ 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 ITlanguage, developed mainly for educational purposes,
education in countries such as the US. He thereforebut also suitable for small-scale software
decided to set up partnerships with universities anddevelopment.
schools and succeeded to make Java graduate jobs