Re: IT Labor Shortage is Bogus

Hopefully, that's as sarcastic as my question.?




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From: Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries <midrange-nontech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 1:49 pm
Subject: Re: IT Labor Shortage is Bogus




He has the most money...so yes, he's always right.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:48 PM, <fbocch2595@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Al Mac Wheel <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:35 pm
> Subject: IT Labor Shortage is Bogus
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> According to e-Week, Research by
> * Duke University
> * Rand Corporation
> * Rochester Institute of Technology
> * Sloan Foundation
> * Stanford University
> * Urban Institute
> * and others
> concluded that there is no economic evidence that there is anything
> remotely approaching an IT skills shortage despite claims to the contrary,
> such as
> * Bill Gates recent pleas to Congress for more visas of technology workers.
> * Similar claims by head of Intel & other major technology firms
> * Gartner research report
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> not only could they not find any evidence of shortages, but that instead
> the evidence is more suggestive of surpluses."
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> e-Week does address the need for technology workers, who are expert in one
> area, to get training to meet needs in other areas.
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> Excerpts from the article about Duke University's research:
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> Vivek Wadhwa, a professor for Duke University's Master of Engineering
> Management Program, and a former Technology CEO, began to research this
> topic after hearing concerns from his students about the job market, given
> all the foreign worker and off-shoring competition.
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> In one study, they asked Human Resource professionals, at top companies
> hiring IT workers, about the availability of qualified workers, such as the
> number of applicants received for IT jobs, the speed with which these
> positions are filled and the overall satisfaction with the employees
> eventually hired. Each indicator showed there was no lack of qualified
> applicants
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> Other research found US Colleges are graduating at least double the
> computer scientists and engineers than are needed by the US job market.
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> Additional evidence is the wage scale of IT workers. If there was a
> shortage, you would see the pay rate to be spiking, but it has been flat
> for years.
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> All the research has the same conclusion, there is no shortage of educated
> IT workers.
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> Hal Salzman at the Urban Institute explained that the illusion of a
> shortage can come from executives who have unrealistic expectations of the
> speed with which technology workers can get up to speed with their
> particular needs.
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> "I once had a manager talking about difficulty in finding a Java programmer
> with ten years java experience and who he wanted to come into a mid-level
> Java position," Salzman said. "Java's been around for what, 12 years now?
> There are probably not a lot of these folks around who have that much
> experience and who are willing to work at that level."
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> Universities often claim a shortage, so as to fill up classroom seats with
> people able to pay for them.
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> Other business interests claim a shortage purely for the purpose of
> justifying cheaper immigrants workers, instead of working with academia and
> IT professionals to identify training needs.
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> Duke University also studied Engineering irrespective of IT, and found the
> same phenomena. The alleged shortage is hype to justify off-shoring jobs
> to reduce costs.
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9910492
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> Relevant e-week links include the same Baseline article that Trevor found.
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> Need technology workers trained for parallel application development that
> will be a crucial requirement for the next generation of multicore
processors.
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> http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-9256-49-644-437749-889419-0-0-0-1
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> Mr. Bill Comes to Washington
> http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-9256-49-644-437749-889422-0-0-0-1
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> Google Says Layoffs Are Coming
> http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-9256-49-644-437749-889425-0-0-0-1
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> CFOs Say U.S. Recession Has Begun
> http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-9256-49-644-437749-889428-0-0-0-1
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> Perils of Not Being Parallel
> http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-9256-49-644-437749-889431-0-0-0-1
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> Al Macintyre
> BPCS/400 Computer Janitor
> DB2 Data Glitch Miner
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