Yes, The Tech Skills Shortage Is Real. No, The Tech Skills Shortage Doesn't Exist
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The IT skills famine plaguing the United States is only going to get worse.
The demand for IT skills has become ubiquitous across every industry globally. The market for IT professionals is strong and is still the fastest-growing sector in the U.S. economy, with more than a million new jobs projected to be added between 2004 and 2014. Five of the 30 occupations projected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to grow the fastest by 2016 are IT-related, led by network and data communications analysts, software engineers, and systems analysts.
By Jerry Luftman InformationWeek
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No, The Tech Skills Shortage Doesn't Exist
Employers game the system and misrepresent the key market indicators.
Employers claim there is a severe shortage of IT workers in the United States. Listen in on any klatch of CIOs, and the conversation inevitably turns to their difficulties finding talent.
By Ron Hira InformationWeek
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Is Tech Talent Getting Harder To Find?
There were almost 300,000 new IT jobs last year, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And that doesn’t surprise Bob Keefe, new president of the Society for Information Management. He says talent issues are the top challenge these days for his fellow CIOs.
"It's been very hard to recruit tech talent" at many companies, says Keefe, who started in his new post as SIM president on Jan. 1, but has previously served in other leadership roles at the senior-level tech professional organization.
Keefe, who's been in IT more than 25 years at companies like Kraft, ConAgra, Russell Corp., and Wyeth, is currently CIO at manufacturer Mueller Water Products in Atlanta.
Posted by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
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