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IT Job Market Is Tanking, But Not For Everyone
CWmike writes "Shortly after the COO of Automated HealthCare Solutions learned that Microsoft planned to cut 5,000 workers over the next 18 months, he and another employee of the medical services provider flew out to Redmond. AHCS now has more than 100 resumes, some of them from Microsoft employees, for about a dozen open positions. That's how the tech job market is these days: there's no doubt the market is tanking, but not for everyone. While numerous IT vendors are laying off workers, and corporate IT jobs are being lost as well, plenty of companies are still hiring. Microsoft's careers site lists more than 700 open jobs in the US, both technical and administrative positions. And IBM has about 3,200 jobs and internships listed worldwide, more than 550 of them in the US — even as it cuts thousands of workers in a move that it is describing not as a layoff, but an effort to 'match skills and resources with our client needs."
...but not for everyone.
THL phish sticks
I just fired half my staff, but I'm still employed! Booyah.
I think I am in the top 1% of people who can sit lazily on the couch and read /. In fact I challenge anyone to be better at doing absolutely nothing than me. Just ask my wife!
All points of time and space are connected.
I can't be the only person hanging from a crane welding in new support beams on a bridge
I bet you are; I for one am at home in front of my computer. I hope your laptop is one of those Toughbook types.
I don't like heights.
Or, come to that, hard work. Why do you think I'm a programmer?
"It doesn't cost enough, and it makes too much sense."
God, what is with you people today?
They looked at their 401k...
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"