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An interesting article in the Westchester County Business Journal (NY) reports that the demand for IT workers in the US and especially in the New York City area (generally a leading indicator in my experience) is on the rise.
In Westchester [just north of New York City], the Pace SkillPROOF Information Technology Index for the third quarter of 2006 showed a 43 percent jump in IT jobs compared with the year-ago quarter -- reflected in a climb in the index score from 61 to 104. A fourth-quarter index will be released this month.
At the same time enrolment in computer science programs is in a five year decline.
Drawing more students to IT jobs has become a mission for Merritt and Pace. During the five years ending last year, enrollment in the computer sciences school dipped 30 percent from its all-time high in 2001, to the current 1,400 students.
The math adds up to a lot of oppertunity in the near future for students looking into studying computer science these days. A lot of the jobs are the sort of local, hands on sort of jobs that are very unlikely to ever go over seas.
A growing number of IT companies are assigning jobs to domestic companies. That should step up this year, in part because many companies will scramble to upgrade or replace their computers to accommodate Microsoft’s new Vista operating system, said Christopher Furey, chief executive officer of Another 9 L.L.C. in Tarrytown.
IT is not a field that is going away. In fact if anything it is growing in importance and in oppertunities.
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