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IT Job Market Recovering Faster Now Than After Dot-com Bubble Burst

Posted by Soulskill on from the certainly-caused-by-your-political-party's-fine-efforts dept.

tsamsoniw writes "More new tech jobs have emerged since the end of the past recession than during the same recovery timelines following the dot-com bubble burst and the early-1990s recession. What's more, the unemployment rate among technology professionals is now half that of the national average — with especially low unemployment rates for database administrators and network architects. What's not clear, though, is how many unemployed techies aren't being counted because they've abandoned job searches."

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  1. Kim Dot-com Bubble? by gentryx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did anyone else read the title and thought "Megaupload's downfall wasn't that bad, wasn't it?" Or did Kim's extensive physique just lose structural integrity?

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  2. Re:"techies" unemployed? Maybe those over 50... by Kjella · · Score: 3, Funny

    When you say "left school" are you talking about high school?

    He's talking about troll school and has been at slashdot ever since...

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  3. Re:Isn't this to be expected? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great. They just announced another round of executive bonuses.

  4. Can't get started by Bramlet+Abercrombie · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've got A+, Network+ and MCP and it's still not enough to get the first job in IT? What gives?

  5. Re:At least one by kelemvor4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore."