March 2011 Information and Communications Outlook for Human Resources in 3 Technology Council the ICT Labour Market, 2011–2016 of the business or organizational context in which ICT •. Second, one of the most important trends is the was applied. [...] There is a significant disjuncture between the prevailing perception of ICT careers as quintessentially technical The 2008 and 2011 Outlooks Compared: occupations and the way that ICT occupations and ICT 2. The 2011 Outlook builds on and refines previous careers were re-defined and re-shaped over the last Outlooks that were released in 2004, 2006 and 2008. [...] Every stakeholder in the ICT labour market the flow of talent into ICT and thereby perpetuates many understands how rapidly changes occur in technology, of the skills shortages that characterize the ICT labour skill requirements, business structure and human market. [...] The 2011 Outlook inter- prets these changes as having become embedded in the ICT labour market and fundamentally changing the capabilities profile sought by the majority of employers and the nature of ICT careers. [...] Information and Communications the ICT Labour Market, 2011–2016 Technology Council market despite the obvious fact that there is an acute and Notwithstanding the limitations that are inherent in the systemic mismatch between employers’ skill requirements available statistical sources, by using additional industry and the skills of job-seekers.