Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
ICT Skills Report: Discussion
2:15 pm
Mr. Joe Cunningham:
I think that is spot-on. Also, we can be over-critical. Our concern is about courses that are very narrow. By training I am an electronic engineer. Ninety-nine percent of what I learned in college - specific technical things - I have never deployed in industry, but 100% of the reasoning I learned was applicable to what I did. I did very little software at college but went straight into a software job. That is what we are looking for in a growing economy. Employers are willing to train people - that is what we do. We mould people into what we want them to be.