THE EMPLOYMENT LANDSCAPE IS CHANGING, BUT IT STILL LANDS ON TOP

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The employment landscape is changing, but IT still lands on top. Here are a few insights to IT jobs for 2009.

 

  • According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, service-providing industries are projected to generate almost all of the employment gain from 2006 to 2016 and will provide more than three-quarters of all jobs in 2016. Professional and business services and health care and social assistance, the industry sectors with the largest employment growth, will add 8.1 million jobs, more than half of the projected increase in total employment, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.nr0.htm.
  • Word on the street is that of the 10,000 job losses expected as a direct result of the financial crisis, a small number will likely be from the general technology employee level and more from the management level, http://www.cio.com/article/452413.
  • A recent report by Forrester Research says the hottest corporate IT jobs are focused on enterprise-level management and vendor oversight including policy- and security-oriented positions: information and data architects, along with information security experts, http://www.cio.com/article/459418.
  • According to the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB), in November, IT employment dropped by almost 34,000 jobs or .87%—the most significant one-month drop in over three years. The good news is that despite the abrupt one-month drop, IT employment was still up 2.1 percent over the past year (Nov. 2007 – Nov. 2008)—continuing to outperform the general employment marketplace on a year-over-year basis, http://www.naccb.org/employment-index.