ConsultNet's 2008 Technology Staffing Outlook
Learn how the following facts will affect you:
- IT unemployment is at a decade low and demand for IT workers is expected to remain strong until at least 2014
- 77 million baby boomers will begin to retire in the next three years, leaving an even bigger employment gap for CIOs and other execs to fill
- By 2012, more than 50 percent of the current federal government workforce, including 90 percent of senior management and a third of all government scientists and economists, will likely be gone—leaving a quarter million jobs in their wake
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects an increase of 86,000 jobs in the management, scientific, and technical consulting services—a 93 percent increase
- According to the Computer Research Association, 23,000 American undergraduate college students declared majors in either computer science or computer engineering in 2002. The following two years, that figure was reduced to 12,000 with just a slight increase to 13,000 in 2006