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Critical Shortage of IT Workers in Coming Years
Juzzam writes "The Herald Sun reports that IBM and university officals are worried about the increasing demand for IT professionals and the decreasing supply of computer science students. From the article:
'The slope shows an unbelievable decline in computer science majors,' Astrachan said. 'There are smart people no longer even signing up to take our introductory courses. We need to fix it, or there's not going to be a U.S. work force in computer sciences.'"
It's not nearly difficult enough to get a good tech job yet.
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Whew, good thing we have India!
We'll just raise a clone army.
Where is this burger flipping college you speak of? Are they accepting applications for fall enrollment?
I'm sure dictator pays more than IT.
http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/career/hamburger_uni versity.html/
If your only ambitions are to get married and live in the burbs then nothing is going to help you.
How we know is more important than what we know.
"When it comes down to it, there's only four things we do, and we do 'em better than anyone else:
/apologies to Stephenson
//wait, this isn't Fark
Music
Movies
Microcode (software)
High-speed Pizza delivery"
Looks like we're down to three.
El riesgo vive siempre!
As companies are outsourcing all their IT work to India then why does the US need any computer graduates anyway ?
Music
Movies
Microcode (software)
High-speed Pizza delivery"
Looks like we're down to three.
You forgot "lawsuits"
---PCJ
my psycho ex-boyfriend is out of work, and nobody wants to hire him due to a surplus of IT workers. There seems to be no shortage of IT workers from India. Why get into IT when all the good IT jobs are being offshored?
Pardon me, I had assumed that we were talking about a time before total economic collapse.
As someone probably wrote. In 1738, with a feather.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
wondering where the hell you're going to be in 20 years, other than stuck under the same a**hole boss whose salary is probably 4-5 times yours.
"It would be nice to have that kind of job security."
- Samir from Office Space
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
In today's episode representatives from the IT Business Consortium (IBC) visit the Talented and Gifted class in a highshcool in suburbia, USA.
IBC Drone:"... and so that's why we would like some of you to consider a career in IT. Any questions?"
Gifted Student: "Isn't it true that the kinds of careers you are asking us to consider have jobs which are among the easiest to outsource to third world countries where labor rates are 1/10 to 1/4 what they are here in the USA due to much lower overall standards of living in those countries?"
IBC Drone: "Well, er, ummm... there will always be work in this field. We need lots of IT workers."
Talented Student: "Perhaps, but we'll have to migrate to Mumbai to get a job. Many of the companies in your consortium are hiring primarily in places like India and China and only doing minor hiring of contractors and temporary workers in the US."
IBC Drone: "Well, when business conditions improve we'll need more people in the USA too..."
Articulate Student: "Forget that crap, It seems to me that if you want any kind of job stability without having to move to a third world sweat shop you'd better stay as far away from IT and Computer Science as you can. Me, I'm going into patent law; plenty of money to be made and great job stability!"