This article is extremely interesting:
http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Is-There-Really-an-IT-Labor-Sho
rtage/?kc=EWWHNEMNL031308STR1
An excerpt...
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Added to the hard data offered by government and university statistics is
the empirical evidence coming from seasoned IT workers who, like Wadhwa¹s
students, increasingly complain of worsening job prospects in the IT market.
³Some people will reject that as anecdotes or they'll blame those workers
for not keeping up with their skills, so there are ways of dismissing it,²
Hira said. ³But who's to say that when Bill Gates gets up or Craig Barrett
gets up to say that there's a shortage that that¹s not an anecdote either? I
mean, nobody's really pressed them on providing data to support their
statements. We're sort of taking it on faith that what they're saying is
right; when in fact they get hundreds of thousands job applications for
positions pour into their companies every year.²
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