Malaysia short of IT specialist
According to PIKOM, Malaysia is having a shortage of IT specialists, especially in the networking field. Part of the problem is due to lack of exposure among IT graduates in the real world of IT business.
This situation leaves IT graduates who only have generic knowledge and skills in IT with a mismatch between the skills they have and the skills wanted in the job market.
Sandy Walsh, Cisco regional Networking Academy Programme manager, said Malaysia is short of 4,200 networking specialists, according to statistics from a study by research firm IDC. The study had been commissioned by networking vendor Cisco.
The problem spans the Asia-Pacific region, which faced a shortage of 210,000 networking professionals last year, said Walsh.
She said the region-wide shortage would double by 2009, leaving some 40% of networking positions unfilled, especially in the most critical areas of network security, wireless networking, and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol deployment.
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