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The Dutch labour market has many difficult-to-fill ICT vacancies, both on the supply side of ICT and at companies that use ICT. Despite this, many ICT professionals are unemployed. Furthermore, recently graduated ICT professionals do not always possess the competencies that employers are looking for. This mismatch is present in educational levels as well as in the level of ICT skills. Education and the labour market need to better align to resolve this mismatch, especially in light of current technological developments. This is revealed in the research report ‘The ICT professional does not exist’, commissioned by CA-ICT, CIO Platform Nederland, Digivaardig & Digiveilig, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Netherlands ICT, conducted by Dialogic with the assistance of ECABO and the IT Performance House. Doekle Terpstra received the report earlier this week (Monday, May 19, 2014) at the annual congress of the Techniekpact.
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