Industry Profile - IT and Telecommunications

Information Technology and Telecommunications is part of our everyday lives. It’s the Internet we use to email, text messaging on our mobile phones, booking plane tickets online. Telecommunications includes the wireless networks, telephones, televisions, and radio. IT and Telecommunications is apart of our everyday living. It’s one of the fastest-growing industries in the world today with technology becoming more and more advance.

IT often attracts technically-minded people, and typically requires a tertiary qualification to become a professional practitioner. Because of the specialised knowledge required and the vast demand for skilled workers, qualified professionals are highly employable, with some students even being headhunted out of their courses before graduation.


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