Good News from the ITAA

Date: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 3:26 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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The ITAA did one of those psuedo-scientific surveys of corporate HR
shills. The conclusion is that job prospects for programmers will be
bleak for awhile.

BUT WAIT - HOLD THE PRESSES FOLKS, BECAUSE HARRIS MILLER SAID THAT
THERE ARE 493,000 UNFILLED TECH JOBS IN THE UNITED STATES!

That doesn't seem like a very bleak scenario, unless of course you are
an American citizen. Citizens won't be considered for those jobs so
their situation is a bleak as Harris Miller proclaims.

ONE MORE PIECE OF GOOD NEWS FROM HARRY!

Harris Miller said that salaries for programmers are holding steady.
That may come as a surprise to the large numbers of techies out there
that are bemoaining their salary declines, but remember, Miller is
probably talking about the salaries of H-1Bs. H-1Bs don't get pay
raises and their salaries are too low to cut.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/5790330.htm

Posted on Mon, May. 05, 2003

Tech job market remains bleak, survey finds

By RACHEL KONRAD

Associated Press Writer

Technology job hunters will find slim pickings for at least another
year, according to a survey released today.

Demand for information technology positions ranging from software
programmers to network engineers will hold steady or decline in the
next 12 months, according to a telephone poll of 400 hiring managers by
the Arlington, Va.-based Information Technology Association of America.

``The fact that firms have dramatically scaled back ... may indicate
that they are properly staffed to handle existing and new business,''
ITAA President Harris N. Miller said.

The survey found there are about 493,000 unfilled technology jobs in
the United States, down from 1.6 million open positions at the start of
2000. The United States has about 10.3 million technology jobs.

The tight market for technology jobs comes as hundreds of American
companies outsource positions to smaller engineering and programming
firms in India, China, Russia and other countries with inexpensive
labor forces.

Nearly one in four large technology companies surveyed said they had
already outsourced technology work to foreign countries, and an
additional 15 percent of large technology companies said they were
considering a similar move within the next year.

Technology companies in the West and Midwest were most likely to send
jobs overseas, according to the survey. The most likely positions to
move overseas were programming and software engineering jobs, followed
by network design and Web development.

Although the hiring outlook remained bleak, the survey found that three
out of four companies had maintained the salaries of existing
technology employees. Of those companies that changed compensation,
only 8 percent lowered pay, while the rest increased paychecks.

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