US Government predicts growing IT job market
Tim Finin, 10:51am 23 February 2008The US Bureau of Labor Statistics releases regular projections for changes in demands for different job categories. The Computing Research Association’s blog compares the changes in the BLS predictions for professional-level IT positons and speculated on the factors involved.
While the projected growth is slowing, the actual number of predicted new jobs has gone up in the latest report. Jay Vesco of the CRA comments:
“It would be easy to see the series of lowered growth projections as signs of trouble within the IT workforce. But there are two other factors to consider: (1) in the 2006-2016 report, expectations for growth lowered also for the overall workforce, and (2) it probably has taken some time for the BLS to assess a relatively new group of occupations that is evolving rapidly (as seen also in the swings in computer science degree production). All in all, in each of its reports BLS predicted that the professional level IT occupations would enjoy high salaries and more than twice the growth rate of the overall workforce.”
Choosing a career in the IT field still looks like a good choice.
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February 24th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
The “Advertised Employment” for IT job in the US is growing … but,
The “Actual Employment” of workers in the United States is shrinking.
Companies are just not hiring IT workers in the US due to the recession/depression.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:39 am
The only ones who are being hired are H1B’s. Americans need not apply. Such blatant bigotry based on country of origin is now legal, thank you Congress.
April 27th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Out of work since 6/2008.. Projects outsourced to India. Been back to school prior to 2006 to upgrade skillset to no avail. Only inquiries from Indian IT Companies. No follow up after initial contact. And their looking to increase H1B visas. The American IT Industry needs to unionize. What is going on is an outrage and something needs to be done soon.
April 28th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Ane… manda sarath!!
April 28th, 2009 at 12:12 am
will there be jobs IT jobs for migrants to US?
October 25th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Tim Finin the author for “US Government predicts growing IT job market” at UMBC.edu back in 23 Feb, 2008 could not have been more wrong. Writers like this have no business having a job nowdays.
Not only did all the indicators show a massive slowdown when this article was written, teh UMBC (an Honors University in Maryland) research group never admits just how wrong they were.
One would expect more out of this kind of institution. But, like the honesty and integrity of years past, this too is gone.
Any institution that does not understand the importance of publishing facts as they are presented should never be considered. The first task in science or engineering is to state the situation. Something that seems completely lost with UMBC.
UMBC reminds me of a news reporter that steps over 10,000 dead bodies, to interview the single survivor and ask them “how great is this battle going?”
Ignoring any facts, situations, or conditions to promote some agenda is the domain of people that don’t deserve credit in the future.