Here is an excerpt from an article describing Bill Gates' visit to the
UT CS department last week:

 

"Nationally, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that more
than 300,000 technology-related jobs remain unfilled for lack of
qualified workers."

And the link overall:

http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/022108kvueutgates-cb.1490daa4.htm
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My question is 2 fold: 

             How on earth does the Labor Dept. come up with a staggering
number like 300,000 unfilled IT jobs? 

            What constitues a technology related job these days (just
about everything if you count the reqirements of having to know how to
use MS products?)?

 

I did a scan of .NET, COBOL, JAVA, and UNIX for one day's listing on the
3 big job web sites (that I'm aware of): CAREER BUILDER.COM, DICE.COM
and MONSTER.COM, and not even eliminating dupicates in the same WEB
pages (let alone duplicate entries across multiple WEB pages), I didn't
even come remotely close to 300,000 entries.

 

Me thinks 300,000, is, umm, a crock of dung?

 

 

 

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