Read all about IT!: ITworks: Lack of suitable candidates meant 200 jobs for young people were unfilled, says IBM HR

Gary Kildare is vice president of HR for the IBM Corporation. He has over 25 years' experience working around the world and currently has responsibility for HR in over 150 countries. He guest blogs for Computer WeeklyThousands of teenagers across the country will receive their A-level results today. For many of them a career in technology is not on the list of options they considered. However, skills in technology, science, engineering and maths are critical to the knowledge economy and our future economic prosperity. Furthermore, people with these skills are needed to develop new solutions to some of the most