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Tracking the IT Job Market with a Bot

Posted by timothy on from the up-up-down-A-B-B-A-down dept.

atlantageek writes "Is the IT job market improving? Is the growth in Unix or Windows? Should I study Data Warehousing or E-Commerce? Identify the recent trends with CJ Miner, a small tool I've written that has been monitoring the Computer Jobs website for the last year."

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  1. More info needed by randall_burns · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1) How many of these ads are actually real?

    2) What do these jobs mean in terms of disposable income?

  2. Very informative, I thought! by King_TJ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One question though: Why computerjobs.com? I'm not real familiar with their site, but are they one of the sites that claims to consolidate complete listings of I.T. jobs from a number of other large job search sites (Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, BrainBuzz, etc. etc.)?

    If they really do get a pretty good number of I.T. related listings all collected up in one place, then yes - I think this is a pretty useful little graph/tool.

    I've been out of work since the beginning of May, and living in the St. Louis area, it seems to me that there are currently very slim pickings. I keep hearing talk of the economic recovery, but at least around here - I'm not really seeing it.

    According to your chart, that would be an accurate accessment too - since it clearly shows a sharp decline in I.T. jobs available in St. Louis since April of 2005. (And worse yet, I'm really mainly interested in the hardware side of things, but if you look at that specifically - you see that in my city, there were only a grand total of about 2 jobs fitting that category, at any given time!) In the whole U.S., it looked like I.T. hardware jobs only averaged around 1,200 *total*, for that matter. Not good... not good at all!

  3. Re-inventing the wheel by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You know if you want to check out how tech jobs are doing why not go here?

    --

    Philosophy.
  4. Jerks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    For all the liberal bleading heart crap I read on this site, there are some mean people here. I thought the information was fairly interesting.

    Read his resume, he's in Atlanta. I went to Georgia Tech and lived in Atlanta for a number of years, and this site was the first I would check when job hunting. It's fairly big there. They don't aggregrate other site's jobs, employers have to pay. With the exception of the head hunters, they were quality jobs. (But I've found that every head hunter posted job I've ever applied for has been a joke anyway)

    Just because you have a job doesn't mean you are better than someone who apparently does not. I went over 6 months from my previous job to my current one, even turning down two jobs and getting jerked around by Novell for 2 months to find the right one.

    Keeping myself busy with random projects was a great way to practice my skills and learn new ones.

  5. Re:Don't you mean by superpulpsicle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The bot concept does not make sense. Are we counting JOBS or POSITIONS?

    Some IT jobs make you the webmaster, network guy, database guy and janitor. Other jobs just leave you a single position and hit deep. How can the bot be intelligent enough to separate?!

  6. Re:IT Market Does Not Follow Economic Laws by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You talk of Free market and closing the US job market to non-free countries like India, China, Mexico etc. I think your knowledge of free economics is pretty stunted. If you are talking about computers and IT industruy, India is a very very open market and one where the government doesnt interfere at all, unlike other industries and unlike the US.

    If you talk of general industry - then lets pick Steel - a very very regulated markket in the US with many stipulations to close free trade with other more competitive countries. Or maybe you could acre to talk about agri-business - a closed market again with farmers being given subsidies to protect the market from aggressive competition from abroad.

    So before you talk free economics, do some home-work instead of parroting "US ia a country of free market economics" like statements. Its a free market economy where it suits the US interests and its strengths, closed everywhere else as much as India, China, Mexico etc and ecen Eastern/western Europe (same Agriculture market being closed there).

  7. Re:IT Market Does Not Follow Economic Laws by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Open markets like Europe... where the average cow earns US$2.50 a day in subsidies?

    Or Japan... where the average cow earns US$7.50 a day in subsidies?

    Link to article

  8. Re:IT Market Does Not Follow Economic Laws by BobKagy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wouldn't worry too much. With the regulations put in place since September 11th, the U.S. is not as favorable a destination as it once was. As word spreads on how difficult it is for a non-citizen to cross the border even when all the papers are legal, fewer qualified workers will want to move to the U.S. Wages and working conditions will have to improve to fill the shortage.

  9. Re:Man, I miss Echo by Ian.Waring · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Unfortunately our sales department tried selling it to the insurance industry, which takes way too long to purchase technology (as opposed to, oh, say, a stock broker, who would want to follow every stock he's got his clients invested in.. go figure).

    And yet if my stats are correct (I work for one of the largest IT resellers in Europe), the Insurance Industry are the #1 early adopters for virtualisation software. I think something like 18 of our top 20 VMware customers are all Insurance or Financial Services companies ;-} Ian W.