http://www.wral.com/business/story/4573031/

Things are bad, but WRAL always blows everything out of proportion. Maybe all those people majoring in humanities get to say I told you so, money isn't everything now.

2/20/2009 10:36:21 AM

Until the coffee shop that those humanities majors works at goes out of business due to the drop in people buying $4 lattes.

2/20/2009 10:39:45 AM

^hey-o!

2/20/2009 10:43:22 AM

Is it actually collapsing or are some of those positions just getting filled? I mean I guess it would be nice to show growth, but hey, it's a recession. Companies want new clients, not new employees right now. Hell our company is actually doing quite well, and we aren't looking to hire simply because we can handle the workload without the help.

2/20/2009 11:06:40 AM

there are still job openings, i'd hardly call that a collapse, rather a decline in demand/growth. a "collapse" is when there are hiring freezes

2/20/2009 11:44:17 AM

^my thoughts exactly. Either freezes or massive layoffs with almost no job openings.

I almost feel like if the news didn't report so much about the things going wrong they would probably start to fix themselves faster.

2/20/2009 1:29:21 PM

I just don't get the focus on IT... Is that category supposed to encompass any person working with technology, including those who are developing servers and the like?

[Edited on February 20, 2009 at 8:32 PM. Reason : s]

2/20/2009 8:26:12 PM

yes, IT generally refers to people working in electronics, communications and software fields. Basically jobs that EEs, CpEs, and CSCs do.

It's not the same as when you're in a company and say "I'm going to call IT to get help installing this new program"

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actually - just go straight to the report, and you can see the jobs that are under discussion. I may have overstated what I've heard IT refer to in the past (because, to a certain extent, almost all semi-conductor work could be considered "information technology")
http://www.nctechnology.org/news/files/IT_Job_Trends_Reports/it_jobs_feb_09.pdf
Their tables do look to be very software-centric and IT Support, but also include "hardware engineering", which i guess may be server setup and stuff, but I geuss not component or hardware design.

[Edited on February 20, 2009 at 8:45 PM. Reason : .]

2/20/2009 8:42:05 PM

Quote :

"Their tables do look to be very software-centric and IT Support, but also include "hardware engineering", which i guess may be server setup and stuff, but I geuss not component or hardware design."

yea, that's sort of what I was getting at...

2/20/2009 9:16:37 PM