| IT Midlife Crisis
Change overshadows the IT profession, especially in the United States. Skills in demand don't fit everyone's resumé. But the IT career isn't dead. It's just suffering a midlife crisis, according to Forrester Research data from interviews with 53 IT executives. Numbers on this page, unless otherwise noted, come from that survey or Forrester projections. DOES YOUR company value creativity? Find out with this free tool at informationweek.com/ benchmark/ creativity.htm |
28 percent will most likely downsize IT in the next two years |
2004 IT budget and salary spending grew 5%
2005 Staff-related spending alone will grow 6% |
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| Last year, only 1.4% of incoming freshmen picked computer science as their major | Five years ago, computer-science majors accounted for 3.7% of incoming freshmen | ||
percent of IT jobs are in businesses with 99 or fewer people --Information Technology Association of America |
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--> Twenty-five percent say 55% of staffing needs are outsourced --> Thirty-six percent plan to increase IT outsourcing --> One in five report 25% to 50% of staff is outsourced |
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| Twenty-five percent anticipate a shortage of skills in the next two years | ||||||||
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