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12:58 11th August 2008
Trade unions have advised IT graduates not to sell themselves short, after a panel of experts said that employment prospects could be harmed if they raised the issue of salaries in an interview.
Trade Unions and recruiters have dismissed comments from the accountancy firm KPMG, and the suppler Fidessa, in a web-cast run by the recruitment site ITjobsforgraduates.com, which claimed that graduates should not ask about incomes in interviews.
Peter Skyte, national officer at trade union Unite, assessed that the advice was "unhelpful" and should be "treated with scepticism".
"If this is the quality of the advice offered, any graduate should think twice about taking it, and they should question whose interests are being represented," he added.
The average starting salary for IT roles is now £25,000, which is down £3,000 from February 2007. Graduates vacancies at IT vendors have also fallen 14 per cent in this time.
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