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NACSE Member Employment Placement Benefits

Also, check out this July, 2001 status report.

Career Growth - National

"Because of a number of driving factors that are coming together at once, there is a skills shortage from staff level to executive level" - Tom Lesica, CIO of PepsiCo's international business in Information Week Online. The driving factors include re-engineering projects; year 2000 work; enterprise resource planning deployments; telecommunications network expansion; Internet, intranet, and Java initiatives; and globalization (Violino and McGee, 1997).

"If the global economy is to grow and thrive in the 21st century, we must support schools in their efforts to produce a generation of workers who have the high level information and communication skills to fuel that growth." Source: Eric Benhamou, Chairman and CEO, 3Com

Jobs in the computer and data processing industries will grow more than 100% in the next eight years (more than any industry) according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. This will produce over one million new jobs for MIS administrators, computer engineers and systems analysts.

An estimated 346,000 IT positions were vacant in three core occupational clusters, programmers, system analysts and computer scientists/engineers. More importantly, the shortfall is concentrated in IT companies -- 37 percent of the vacancies were in IT companies that make up only 5.7 percent of all the companies in the nation. There was little regional variation. - Source: Help Wanted: ITAA Survey

The two major sources of training for IT workers were in-house training departments and hardware/software vendors. Over 70 percent of respondents reported using these two sources "often" or "sometimes." - Help Wanted 1998: A call for Collaborative Action for the New Millennium

Career Growth - Regional

In Illinois, companies estimate the need for 140,512 IT positions with a shortfall of 18,720 positions vacant. - Source: Help Wanted: Illinois survey

For IT companies in Illinois, the current vacancy rate of 13.3 percent is slightly higher than for the 1997 national survey. This translates to an estimated current shortfall of IT employed in Illinois of 18,720. The national survey estimated that the number of vacancies in IT companies would grow by approximately 60 percent during the next five years. If the shortfall increases, Illinois is likely to be at an increasing disadvantage nationally. Reported by NACSE

Over 80 percent of those respondents that employ IT professionals reported difficulty in filling positions in the three core occupational clusters, while 75 percent have difficulty retaining IT employees. The worker shortage is prevalent and appears to be somewhat more acute in Illinois than the national average. Reported by NACSE.

Due to the ever changing nature of technology career information, statistics and salary ranges, we suggest that you research further for more comprehensive and up-to-the-minute data.

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	NACSE Member Employment Placement Benefits Also, check out this July, 2001 status report. Career Growth - National "Because of a number of driving factors that are coming together at once, there is a skills shortage from staff level to executive level" - Tom Lesica, CIO of PepsiCo's international business in Information Week Online. The driving factors include re-engineering projects; year 2000 work; enterprise resource planning deployments; telecommunications network expansion; Internet, intranet, and Java initiatives; and globalization (Violino and McGee, 1997). "If the global economy is to grow and thrive in the 21st century, we must support schools in their efforts to produce a generation of workers who have the high level information and communication skills to fuel that growth." Source: Eric Benhamou, Chairman and CEO, 3Com Jobs in the computer and data processing industries will grow more than 100% in the next eight years (more than any industry) according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. This will produce over one million new jobs for MIS administrators, computer engineers and systems analysts. An estimated 346,000 IT positions were vacant in three core occupational clusters, programmers, system analysts and computer scientists/engineers. More importantly, the shortfall is concentrated in IT companies -- 37 percent of the vacancies were in IT companies that make up only 5.7 percent of all the companies in the nation. There was little regional variation. - Source: Help Wanted: ITAA Survey The two major sources of training for IT workers were in-house training departments and hardware/software vendors. Over 70 percent of respondents reported using these two sources "often" or "sometimes." - Help Wanted 1998: A call for Collaborative Action for the New Millennium Career Growth - Regional In Illinois, companies estimate the need for 140,512 IT positions with a shortfall of 18,720 positions vacant. - Source: Help Wanted: Illinois survey For IT companies in Illinois, the current vacancy rate of 13.3 percent is slightly higher than for the 1997 national survey. This translates to an estimated current shortfall of IT employed in Illinois of 18,720. The national survey estimated that the number of vacancies in IT companies would grow by approximately 60 percent during the next five years. If the shortfall increases, Illinois is likely to be at an increasing disadvantage nationally. Reported by NACSE Over 80 percent of those respondents that employ IT professionals reported difficulty in filling positions in the three core occupational clusters, while 75 percent have difficulty retaining IT employees. The worker shortage is prevalent and appears to be somewhat more acute in Illinois than the national average. Reported by NACSE. Due to the ever changing nature of technology career information, statistics and salary ranges, we suggest that you research further for more comprehensive and up-to-the-minute data.
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