IT Might be Part of the Solution for Youth Unemployment?

    MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 05, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Youth unemployment remains a significant problem for our community. The Australian Government's DEEWR website (http://www.deewr.gov.au/lmip/default.aspx?LMIP/LFR/Vic/Melbourne) puts the unemployment rate for October 2012 at 5.3%, and youth unemployment (15 to 24 year olds) at 12.5% and teenage unemployment (15 to 19 year olds) at a staggering 28.7%. There are a range of reasons given by the experts as contributing factors to this problem. These include the reduction in the need for unskilled labour, the shrinking of traditional employment bases like the manufacturing industry, and a mismatch between industry needs and available human resources. Whatever the cause or causes we need to address it.

On the flip side to youth unemployment, the Australian Computer Society (ACS) believes that there is a skills shortage in ICT and that this skills shortage and falling enrolment rates in ICT courses threatens Australia's $100 billion digital economy.

Course You Can and its parent company ProLearn work in the education and training space and in particular in IT. ProLearn is the preferred training manager for ITCRA (the Australian and New Zealand IT contract and recruitment industry association) and is working with ITCRA to address the training needs of the IT industry.

One of the programs that ProLearn is currently running through Course You Can its consumer arm is a program to get young people into the IT industry. ProLearn is working with Holmesglen TAFE and Computer Power to do this. Holmesglen and Computer Power are offering a jointly badged Diploma of IT. What makes this program unique is that it has over a 90% success rate in its graduates finding employment. The program is also specially designed to get candidates job ready. The campus requires attendees to wear work suitable attire and the course includes not only the Diploma but a number of vendor qualifications from Microsoft and Cisco and others. These vendors qualifications make graduates significantly more employable than those with just a Diploma.

The program also attracts government support for Australian Citizens, which means that applicants only need to find a $250 commitment fee up front, if students enroll this year.

Further, there is no ATAR score required, applicants are asked to sit an aptitude test and that is the only entry requirement, so the program is open to those students who did not get the ATAR score they were hoping for.

With the My Careers Salary Centre, stating that the average wage for someone working in ICT in Australia is over $100,000 (http://content.mycareer.com.au/salary-centre/it-telecommunications/-/australia), it is a genuine opportunity for students to get a start in a well-paid profession and out of the unemployment cycle.

Course You Can is a unique website where you can search, compare and then enroll in courses online. You can research the sort of course that you wish to study. Course You Can has courses such as building and construction courses, hospitality course, community development courses, online short courses and information technology courses just to name a few.

Course You Can is an interactive website that was established in 2011 to help people navigate the complex and sometimes confusing education and training market. Course You Can strives to deliver accurate, up to date and relevant information in a simple and clear way in order for people looking for courses and new careers to make informed decisions about their futures. Course You Can is the only Australian website that allows you to search, compare and enrol in the course of your choice. For Further information please contact us at 1300737681 OR visit www.CourseYouCan.com.au.

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