[jsfg_cinti] ARTICLE: Report says IT professionals expect more hiring and fewer layoffs in coming months.

Dear JSFG Folks,

Here's some good news if you are a techie.

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Lance Feldman

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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199203335

Tech Workers Were In A Great Mood About Jobs Last
Month

Report says IT professionals expect more hiring and
fewer layoffs in coming months.

By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
InformationWeek
May 2, 2007 03:40 PM

Job optimism among tech professionals soared in April
as expectations about hiring rose and worries about
layoffs decreased, according to a new study by IT
staffing and outsourcing firm Hudson.

Compared with a base score of 100, IT and telecom
professionals rated their job confidence at 122.6 in
April, up 12.9 points since March, when confidence
fell 2.6 points to 109.7.

The mood among tech pros was considerably better than
it was for most other workers nationally, for which
job confidence dipped 1.5 points to 107.5 in April.
Hudson bases its job confidence index on a phone
survey of 9,000 workers in several industries,
including about 400 people in telecom and IT. Other
sectors surveyed include accounting and financial
services, health care, and manufacturing.

Tech workers' optimism in April was fueled by a
7-point increase to 38% of workers who expected their
employers to hire in coming months. There also was a
record low in the number of workers expecting layoffs
-- only 13%, which was 4 points lower than in March. 

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