Study: IT Job Market May Be Looking Up
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| Title: | Study: IT Job Market May Be Looking Up (ID: CSD4053) | |
| Author(s): | Ed Frauenheim (CNET News.com) | |
| Topics: | IT Staffing, Staffing, Workforce Issues | |
| Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2005) | |
| Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | |
| Abstract: | A survey conducted by staffing firm Robert Half Technology paints a rosier picture for IT professionals than has been offered by the company for three years. Results of the survey, which polled CIOs at more than 1,400 U.S. companies, showed that 14 percent expect to hire full-time IT staff in the third quarter, while 3 percent projected reductions in IT staff. Eighty-one percent of respondents said their staffing levels will remain steady. Respondents indicated that the primary factors determining staffing levels were business expansion (38percent) and the need for higher levels of customer and end-user support (21 percent). The report comes amid mixed signals regarding the IT job market. According to the Labor Department, the number of unemployed high-tech workers fell by 64,000 last year. Still, the overall number of unemployed IT professionals was nearly 150,000, and 60,000 high-tech jobs were cut in the first quarter of this year, double the number of jobs lost during the same period in the previous year. | |
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