Are IT graduates suitable for contract work?
GF: The next question is around IT graduates. We don’t see (anecdotally) a lot of IT graduates entering the contract space initially. This year, we’re going to see a lot of resilient IT graduates, because of the way they’ve had to learn and how they’ve had to stay at home, and graduate remotely. Their generation is more nomadic, they probably will want more contract roles than permanent. Do you see a market for IT graduates in contract work?
DS: It’s difficult. Typically when a company comes to market looking for a contractor, they need something done and they need someone to hit the ground running. It’s task orientated, it’s project orientated. What I think is that IT professionals who don’t have at least three years’ experience in their given field, it is going to be difficult for them. Sometimes it works and sometimes you will get low level, entry level roles that come in as a contract with a view to permanency. Those opportunities are definitely there but in general, the whole graduate recruitment is more geared towards the permanent side. So I think the opportunities may be there ad-hoc but mostly you’ll see graduate recruitment on the permanent side.