An article in Yahoo! Education, entitled “Top In-Demand Careers of 2009”, states that “According to the 2009 Robert Half International Salary Guide, careers in business, IT, and law are among the fields expected to yield top careers in the coming year.”
Furthermore, within the IT profession, the top skills are IMS skills (the focus of our TIMS program), i.e.,
excerpt from a Computer World interview with Todd Thibodeaux, president and CEO of CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association:
Most people believe IT careers require specialized knowledge, a computer science degree. You're saying that’s not the case?
There’s a misperception that all IT jobs require a computer science degree. The majority of IT work doesn’t have anything to do with developing
Web sites. It's about managing infrastructure so companies can run and administer systems. That doesn’t require computer a science degree.
We’re looking for ways to educate kids about that. There are lots of opportunities in IT that don’t require you to sit at a desk and
be a programmer. That’s not what an IT career is about.
So, what kinds of IT jobs don’t require a four-year computer science degree?
Managing a company’s mobile data and voice system related to deploying BlackBerries and synchronizing those with corporate e-mail systems.
Managing firewalls, network switches, security, some of the infrastructure within the corporate environment. Those jobs don’t require a
computer science degree. You need to like thinking and working with your hands, working with people in an organization, but you don’t
have to have four years of computer science background.
To read the rest of the article (“IT skills shortage a chance for unemployed workers”, by Meridith Levinson), click on “more” below
The following reports from TechRepublic and Global Knowledge are about salaries of IT professionals in the US.
In Asia, many large companies lacking skilled workers in IT and IMS, and the shortage is made more acute because of the out-sourcing of IMS from others countries as well.