Good IT help is getting harder to find
Wow! Whether or not you believe we are in (or will soon be) a recession, if you are in IT what does it matter? Check out this comment I found on CIO Insight.
Unemployment among business-technology professionals has fallen to a decade low as the size of the IT workforce has risen to a record level in 2007, according to CIO Insight analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Joblessness among American IT workers averaged 2.1 percent last year, down from 2.5 percent in 2006. That’s the lowest unemployment rate for IT pros since the government began using the current method to track employment in 2000, when IT joblessness stood at 2.2 percent.
In 2007, according to our analysis, 3,758,000 workers in the U.S. held IT jobs; another 79,000 people who consider themselves business-technology professionals were unemployed. IT employment grew 8.5 percent last year. By this calculation, IT managers and staffers represent nearly 2.6 percent of employed U.S. workers in 2007.
The low IT unemployment rate of 2.1 percent, which many economists considers full employment, bolsters an argument forwarded by many CIOs: it’s hard to find qualified IT professionals.
READ: Damn the Economy! IT Employment Rises to New Heights
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Jim,here is a question, and maybe we could beg readers to please give their thoughts — Maybe if Companies were to focus on what the MINIMUM objective qualifications were for the job, instead of asking for the impossible - Ie a Million Dollar Candidate for a 50k Job, then there wouldn’t be a shortage.
The Computer Science degree is about 20 Years more or less, and Yet it is Now the most requested characteristic in a job request. WHY? Why isn’t the person’s experience the biggest factor? What does it matter if I have a degree, if I know how to write code, and write it well??
I believe if companies were to look more at I NEED rather than I WANT, we would see less people on the Long Term Unemployment list, and less concerns about what I see as a manufactured, self made “talent war”