Programming Grads Meet a Skills Gap in the Real World
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By Darryl K. Taft
September 3, 2007
Despite the best laid plans of colleges and universities, there remains a skills gap between what computer science graduates learn in their undergraduate years and what they need to become proficient in a typical at-work environment.
In short, many people on both sides of the equation—teachers as well as potential employers—say the educational system is not doing enough to keep pace with the ever-changing needs of IT, and that entering the work force often is as much of an educational experience as is college, particularly for programmers.
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September 4, 2007
Careers: “Programming Grads Meet a Skills Gap in the Real World”
July 3, 2007
Careers: IT Consulting May Be Alternative For Career Technicians Looking For A Change
Consulting: A smart IT career choice
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Katherine Spencer Lee
July 02, 2007
A competitive environment for talent makes this an ideal time for experienced IT professionals to consider a move to consulting. Whether it’s viewed as a bridge to eventual retirement or as an open-ended career change, consulting is breathing fresh air into many successful IT careers.
Continued economic growth and IT expansion, the impending retirement of baby boomers and an insufficient supply of skilled workers have caused a worldwide technology talent shortage that is expected to intensify over the next decade.
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Trends: Developers Slowly Leaving Windows Platform
Survey: Windows loses ground with developers
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Linux gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows falls 12 percent, Evans Data says
By Paul Krill
July 02, 2007
Microsoft’s Windows platform is losing traction as a target for application developers in North America but still is the dominant platform, according to Evans Data survey results being released on Tuesday.
A survey this spring of more than 400 developers and IT managers in North America found that the number of developers targeting Windows for their applications declined 12 percent from a year ago. Just 64.8 percent targeted the platform as opposed to 74 percent in 2006.
“We attribute [the decline] largely to the increase in developers beginning to target Linux and different Linux [distributions]. Both Novell and Red Hat are the two dominant ones right now,” said John Andrews, the CEO of Evans Data.
The arrival of Windows Vista likely only kept the numbers from being even worse. “I think Vista probably offset some of the decline,” Andrews said.
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April 25, 2007
Careers: US IT Appears To Be Doing Well Since Bust In 2000
Tech Industry Boasts Biggest Job Growth Since Bust
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April 24, 2007
By Deborah Perelman
Though still down a total of 809,100 jobs, or 12 percent of its work force since 2000, the high-tech industry has made great strides in the past two years towards recovering this loss, finds the Cyberstates 2007 report, released on April 24.
According to the report, released for the tenth consecutive year by the AeA, a Washington D.C.-based high-tech industry trade association, the high-tech industry added 146,600 jobs, or 3 percent of its work force, between 2005 and 2006, bringing total employment to 5.8 million in the United States.
“This is the second year in a row that high tech has added jobs, this more emphatically than the last. This growth of over 140,000 is going a long way to make up for the loss of one million jobs between 2000 and 2004,” William T. Archey, president and CEO of AeA, told eWEEK.
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