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For a while, it seemed as if the IT profession might skip the current downturn. But now a couple of reports suggest the economic backslide might be affecting IT employment.
Gartner just released
a report that said, while recruiting and retaining IT staffers continues to be a key organizational concern, IT organizations will be cautious about adding staff this year and next in response to potential IT budget cuts.
The findings came from a survey of 285 U.S.-based IT organizations. Of those, said Gartner, 57.9% projected increased IT hiring – a notable drop from last year when 66.3% said they’d add staff. The survey also found that the percentage of organizations projecting a greater than 10% increase in staff dropped to 12.1% from 15.7% last year.
“Even though the number of vacancies and turnover rates remain at similar levels as 2007, organizations are being cautious in their hiring practices,” Lily Mok, research vice president for Gartner’s CIO workforce management group, said in a statement. “We have not seen extreme measures being taken by IT organizations, such as hiring freezes, but we do expect to see enterprises take a more conservative and ‘wait-and-see’ approach to staffing for the rest of 2008.”
The Garter report followed by just days a
report of an InformationWeek magazine survey of 600 business technology executives that found 32% of the 600 business technology executives polled expecting IT budgets cuts – and almost three-quarters of those managers saying they didn’t plan on hiring new IT staffers.
But while the IT employment outlook might be softening a bit, the good news is that many organizations – particularly those
In the financial sector – are adding technical staff and that IT employment remains at an
all time high.
If this is the worst the IT employment picture gets, things are still looking good for IT professionals – unless, of course, you one of the people currently looking for work.
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