Posted on 10/14/2004 3:50:00 PM PDT by glorgau
The Golden State is generating the biggest share of new jobs in information technology, according to a study.
California accounted for nearly 28 percent of employment openings in software and other IT fields in September, according to an analysis of technology jobs posted to major Internet job boards. That's an increase from the 21 percent share the state claimed in January, according to the study, conducted by job board service provider NimbleCat.
Washington, D.C., ranked second to California, with 8 percent of new IT jobs in September. Then followed New York, with 7.1 percent; New Jersey with 6.4 percent; Texas with 5.8 percent; and Massachusetts with 5.7 percent.
The NimbleCat study, seen by CNET News.com before public release, did not give a total number of new IT jobs created in the United States. That's partly because its research does not cover all online postings of IT jobs. Nevertheless, NimbleCat CEO Sunil Mehta said he's detected a clear pick-up in hiring in the industry. "The number of jobs has increased sharply--at least by a factor of two since January," he said on Thursday.
That reported increase follows other signs of recovery in the U.S. technology job market. Last week, the Labor Department said the number of payroll positions in computer system design and related services increased by 6,900 to 1.14 million from August to September. Employment in those technology sectors has been growing since April and is up by 32,700 from September 2003, according to the agency's figures.
In addition, research firm Meta Group recently predicted that salaries of information technology staff will increase by as much as 15 percent over the next three years.
On the other hand, IT workers' confidence in the job market slipped in September, according to a survey from staffing firm Hudson.
Terrific news...if you're desperate enough to move to the PRK, that is.
After 4 years of "Tax Hike Mike" Easley's democratic governorship, and regular increases in taxation, the Research Triangle Park of NC is no longer the "Golden triangle" for jobs. I came here at the crest of the dot.com boom, rode high for 20 months, and have been scrambling ever since.
It's freaking them out how few applicants they have, and they don't know why. Neither, for that matter, do I.
It could, of course, be that I am a hard act to follow, being the greatest living server god and keyboard virtuoso since Gates stole his first company...
...or not... ;-)
They need a real mans operating system.
z/OS.
;-)
Is it Amgen? I have a friend who'd be interested. I work at a big biotech in South San Francisco.
Oh yeah, RTP is becoming very "Northernized" with all the oppression and high taxation implied. I'll never understand how a state that can elect Jesse Helms as a Senator for decades and overwhelmingly vote for Bush as president, can have a clod like Edwards, and a tax-and-spend liberal like Easley as some of its leaders.
Still, despite its problems, NC is no California...
Speaking of which, how are IT jobs in the Seattle/Tacoma area? My wife is a programmer, and we'll be moving over in that area early next year.
My understanding from folks I know in NC, is that Edwards would never have been re-elected.
Let's hope he's not elected.
Well, you never know, but since he's not running for re-election it's a moot point (thank God). Even better news is that the RAT running for his seat (Erskine Bowles, I believe) is losing his butt right now to the Republican candidate whose name, I'm ashamed to say, escapes me right now.
If we can get two Republican senators in NC, who knows? Maybe Easley will be tossed out, too.
which company is it?
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