Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 21, 2013 @06:00AM from the contrast-this-support-ticket-with-john-donne's-early-elegies dept.

McGruber writes "The Wall Street Journal's Michael Totty shares some stereotype-shattering statistics about IT workers: Most of them don't have college degrees in computer science, technology, engineering or math. About a third come to IT with degrees in business, social sciences or other nontechnical fields, while more than 40% of computer support specialists and a third of computer systems administrators don't have a college degree at all! The analysis is based upon two job categories as defined by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics: network and computer systems administrator, and computer support specialist."

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Re:As someone who runs an IT company by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 06:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Oh, you mean you prefer employees able to read your mind over those that ask you to clearly verbalize your expectations?
Re: As someone who runs an IT company by Oligonicella · 2013-10-21 06:59 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Interesting. Hopefully the IRS won't subpoena /. for your id. What you did was illegal. Hopefully, your future employer won't know that.