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Slashdot Asks: Which IT Hiring Trends Are Hot, and Which Ones Are Going Cold?
snydeq writes: Recruiting and retaining tech talent remains IT's biggest challenge today, writes Paul Heltzel, in an article on what trends are heating up and what's cooling off when it comes to IT staffing. "One thing hasn't changed this year: Recruiting top talent is still difficult for most firms, and demand greatly outstrips supply," writes Heltzel. "That's influencing many of the areas we looked at, including compensation and retention. Whether you're looking to expand your team or job searching yourself, read on to see which IT hiring practices are trending and which ones are falling out of favor." What are you seeing companies favoring in the hiring market these days?
Hot: Python
Cold: Slashcode
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Unless we're talking H1-Bs I don't see that in the slightest. What I do see is several of my buddies in dead end jobs (and a few acquaintances rocking recent CS degrees stuck in crap IT jobs) while workers here on cheap visas and outsourcing dominate the industry. I suppose if they can keep this up though nobody local will go into IT (since you can't get work). I can tell you this, I just sent my kid to college to be a nurse. IT ranked below liberal arts degree on the list of things I wanted her to major in.
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AI .... whether it's really AI or not is immaterial
And it all is based on javascript.
Definitely in a downtrend.
Trends like
Required: Five years of experience in two-year old technology
Required: Five years of experience in all relevant skills for barely paid internship
Required: The ability to convince a recruiter or manager that you are proficient in skills about which they have no understanding
Required: Pretend to be thrilled by a position that won't be adequately explained to you until after the manager decides to pass on you for "not being enthusiastic enough"
Really, the main trend I see continuing is: The most in-demand skill is that of getting hired
No no, hiring is an uptrend. The firing comes later.
They figured that Uber will get them extra dough, if there isn't any paid overtime.
As much as San Francisco wants to be, they are NOT part of Silicon Valley.
Most firms are still offering too little money for the positions they want filled. Translated, this means most companies do not value IT staff.
The companies with management that believe "demand greatly outstrips supply" are earning the security breaches in their futures.
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A good trench digger might dig 20% more earth than an average one, a good plumber might lay 20% more pipe, or save 20% through a clever approach . But a good technology person can deliver a lot more than an entire team of their more average peers. But corporate pay grades never reflect this.
If the good people were paid what they are actually worth you would have no problem attracting them.(Free market etc...)
Oh and Infrastructure is dead, dev and design is where it's at.
Just like the NBA: churn and burn. It may be better to become a domain expert with IT knowledge rather than a "direct" IT expert. For example, accounting and chemistry don't change nearly as quick as direct IT. Thus, domain experience is more likely to be valued after age 45. I don't see bunches of accounting and chemistry fads equivalent to IT fads. There's no "Quarks are Obsolete! Learn NoQuarksNeeded 2.0 in 21 Days Head First Unleashed" books in the chemistry section. (Hmmm, maybe there's room for con artists in those industries.)
IT is closer to the clothing fashion industry than real topics. That's why they want younglings. I've seen several dozens of way to do plain old CRUD screens over the years. Do we really need 38 ways to do the same thing and throw out #1 thru #37 to get 38? Plus, they often grow more complicated over time, not less. De-evolution. "It's agile functional separation of scale-able and cloud-able concerns that provides nimble global synergy..." Yeah right, shuddup[1]. The cloud, for example, is often used as an excuse to do really stupid unproven shit in order to out-buzzword your conpetition[2]. Con artists rule over IT.
[1] and git off my lawn
[2] misspelling intentional
Table-ized A.I.
Sysadmin jobs are dying off fast, but system security or Information Assurance jobs are growing fast. Same skills, different focus.
Definitely in a downtrend.
I would've used the term decrescendo.
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Can we see how rapidly salaries have been rising in pursuit of these rare birds? Oh, they haven't been rising?
You're not even trying - your shortage is a bullshit lie so you can import H1B's that cost less.
On a vaguely related note, I've always wondered if Sophie Wilson's and Lynn Conway's accomplishments in almost the same field were just a coincidence...
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So, everyone who replies is just going to take the opportunity to make a sarcastic remark complaining about something. Nobody actually has an answer? I know I know, I must be new here.
Don't worry you can be black as the night and you won't get hired either. If you're xe or xir you get to be management or HR and order up the pajeets to wage slave for you.
Unless we're talking H1-Bs I don't see that in the slightest. What I do see is several of my buddies in dead end jobs (and a few acquaintances rocking recent CS degrees stuck in crap IT jobs) while workers here on cheap visas and outsourcing dominate the industry.
Okay, now turn that around.
How do you feel about DACA, total amnesty, and unrestricted immigration?
Lots and lots of people are screaming for DACA and giving citizenship to just about anyone who can evade the border guards and get here.
DACA and other immigration issues speak to the same problems you are complaining about. The argument is that the country cannot absorb the illegal immigrants(*), doing so would wreck the future outlook and way of life for US citizens.
So, based on your post, how do you feel about DACA and amnesty?
(*) Legal immigration is a separate issue. Related, but it can compensate for negative population growth, so it isn't actually a problem.
Or maybe I got that backwards. It's hard to tell with all the data breaches that are caused by people who have no clue what they are doing.
and make tons of $$$
There are just cheap employers looking to under pay for a skill and to lazy to value it correctly. IT is hard and it really isn't that interesting to most executives. They see the accountants every day, they can see their value and more importantly evaluate their value. Sales is easy to evaluate. How many executives actually use the companies own products? That is almost the bare minimum to know what the engineers are doing and I bet less than 10% of execs do it.
But due to diversity it starts with a crescendo and will end with largo
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1. The first obvious problem with companies looking for "top talent" is that they often are not able to recognize them when they see them (mainly because of caving in and hiring what comes along, due to project pressures, who then get to think they are "top talent" and hire others like them). I know because I've been employed by 2 or 3 of these.
2. A lot of interviews/tests focus on technical skills. But I find that people skills, time management skills (uhmmm, I'm on /. while I should work...) etc. make up a good proportion of the skills needed in the modern workplace. No use if you could code circles around the next guy if you can't negotiate with your client around what's feasible, or get along with your BOFH team lead to work around ambiguities.
3. So you want to hire rockstar programmers? Where's the groupies and drugs?
The more realistic view IMHO is that most companies do not absolutely need top talent for all their job functions. It's more realistic to develop (and retain) the talent inhouse. Talent is overrated. Talent can be learned up to a level that is sufficient for operational needs. But you need to keep your people for those 10000* hours and keep challenging them (* I mention the figure just as a nod to Gladwell's book, although I do not necessarily agree with the exact figure or some of his points.).
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