[jsfg_cinti] ARTICLE: CIOs Are Hiring Again

This is interesting.

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Lance

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http://www.esj.com/news/article.aspx?EditorialsID=1642

Careers: CIOs Are Hiring Again
Fully 12 percent of CIOs expect to hire new IT workers
in the upcoming quarter
by Stephen Swoyer
3/14/2006

Every quarter, information technology staffing firm
Robert Half Technology surveys enterprise CIOs?more
than 1,400 of them?to get a feel for their hiring
plans in the coming quarter.

The results from Robert Half?s most recent survey were
encouraging, with fully 12 percent of CIOs expecting
to hire new IT workers in the second quarter, and just
4 percent anticipating reductions. 
...
All in all, says Katherine Spencer Lee, an executive
director with Robert Half Technology, it?s a good time
to be an IT professional. ?Many CIOs are adding IT
personnel gradually to support recent business growth.
Competition is rising for professionals skilled in the
hottest applications and specialties, and multiple
offers are increasingly common.?
...
For out-of-work IT pros, West North Central is the
place to be. CIOs in this region?which includes Iowa,
Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, and the Dakotas?lead
the nation in hiring optimism, with a net 12 percent
of companies expecting to add IT positions during the
coming quarter. The Pacific region (Alaska,
California, Hawaii, Washington, and Oregon) is still
experiencing lackluster IT job growth, with a net 6
percent of CIOs expecting to hire additional
employees.

In the past, Robert Half has found that
Microsoft-related technology skills are almost always
in demand. 
...
More surprising, however (given current trends in
outsourcing): help desk and end-user support is the
hottest job category within IT departments. Twenty-one
percent of CIOs said desktop and end-user support was
the job category experiencing the most growth in their
IT departments, followed by networking (at 15 percent)
and data/database management (at 13 percent).


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Stephen Swoyer is a Contributing Editor for Enterprise
Systems. He is based in Athens, Ga. You can contact
Stephen Swoyer about Careers: CIOs Are Hiring Again at
swoyerse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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