The advice comes as outsourcing, standardisation of IT work and the move of IT companies into providing business services take their toll on established and less skilled jobs.
In the USA average paid IT jobs have collapsed - one third have gone in five years, said Jacob Kirkegaard of the Institute of International Economics. During the same period employment among higher wage IT workers was up 15-20% - though with signs of a decline in computer programming work.
"You are seeing multiple trends," Jacob told the 150 participants on Day Two of a Forum that is looking at anticipating and managing change in Information Technology. "There is no doubt that transformation is going on in this sector."
There has been a big focus on the loss of work through outsourcing and offshoring from the USA and Europe but even India and China cannot compete on low price with the potential of computers.
