IBM Helps Link College Students With High-Tech Jobs

IBM Helps Link College Students With High-Tech Jobs

IBM today announced a new initiative aimed at helping college and university students find employment in information technology jobs. The new program, the “IBM Academic Initiative Student Opportunity System,” enables students from accredited colleges and universities worldwide to post their resumes to a virtual career center that will be made available to thousands of IBM clients and business partners. As a result, IBM is making it easier for companies to locate and hire students skilled in open standards-based technologies.

With today’s news, IBM is taking another major step to help bridge the gap between skilled IT professionals and the increased number of technology jobs. According to the United States Department of Labor, computer software engineers are projected to be one of the fastest growing occupations over the 2002-2012 timeframe. The department projects that jobs requiring science, engineering and technical training will increase 51 percent through 2008. That could lead to 6 million job openings for scientists, engineers and technicians. However, even with this projected growth, finding skilled workers is increasingly challenging due to the lack of students entering the computer science field.

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