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What is going on in the IT Job Market?

1. Market Development, Job Situation

2. Salary Development

3. Value of Certificates and Post Studies

4. ‘Useful’ Education

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time

# Elements on nexus.ch

Candidates

Job Vacancies

20022001

Employee Market Employer Market

500

250



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• From Employee to Employer Market • Salary Consolidation• High Expectations in Quality• High Entry Threshold - No Room for Newcomers• High Pace in the Recruitment Process


What changed?



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• Post Milennium Effect• Banking Crises (Stock)• Telecom Crises (Mergers, UMTS)• Technologies

Effects: Less Projects, small Portions Pressure on Suppliers and internal Organizations


Why did it change?



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Technologies – The “Hype Cycle”

Technologyinitiated

Maximum Expectations

MaximumDesillusion

Growing Confidence

reachedProductivity

Time to Productivity

less than 2 years

2-5 years

5-10 years

more than 10 years

Nanocomputing

Identity-Services

Voice Search

BiometricsGrid Computing

Web-Services

Personal DigitalAssistant Phones

Peer-to-PeerComputing

WAP/Wireless Web

Location Sensing

Voice Recogintion

E-Payments

Public Key Infrastructure

Bluetooth

Voice over IP

Voice RecognitionCallcentre

Text to Voice

Wireless LANs/802.11

Virual PrivateNetworks

Time

Visibility

Gartner



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• Consolidation over several Years (since 1999)• Stronger Performance dependent Salaries• „Sound Barrier“ at 130‘000.- for technical Jobs

- above: Management- above: Revenue dependent (e.g. Sales, KAM)

• Entry at 90‘000.-

• Effects: Smaller Bandwith Pressure on Candidates; no more Salary Jumps

2. Salary Development



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User „Anwender“ SIZ, ECDL (CEPIS)

Supporter SIZ, A+, N+, i-Net+, LAN-SupporterWeb-Publisher, Webmaster

MS: MCP, MCP+I, MCP+SB, MCSE (+i), MCSD, MCSDBANovell: CNA, CNE, MCNE, CIPCisco: CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, CCDA, CCDPSun: Java-Developer, -ProgrammerOracle: DBA, OCAD

3. Value of Certificates

Special User

IT Professionals



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Change

ETH

Uni

FH

TS

WI PL

Apprenticeship

College

old

3. Value of Certificatesand Post Studies

new

new• Profund Basis necessary

• Gaps filled

• Problem: Education Programs

e.g. Skip SIZ Education Digicomp



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Erfahrung(in Jahren)

Einkommen

SIZ 2 60000

A+ 2 70000

N+ 2 85000

MCP 5 86731

MCSE 6 100565

MCDE 5 144000

MCDA 5 150000

3. Value of Certificates

Source: salaryadvisor.informatikweek.com 2000



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4. Useful Education

• No Job Security with sound Education only

• Experience

• Post Studies (NDS STV, BWI, HSG) • Education for IT-Professionals



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• Rough Market

• Team Collegue becomes Competitor

• New Tendency: only one Job?

• IT changend optimization

Conclusion



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