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Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities
IT Jobs Overview
Opportunities and Challenges
By
Glenn McKnight
Overview
Overview
Opportunities
Strategy for implementation
Conclusions
Canadian IT Sector
IT Growth
Industry Canada reported 600,000 Jobs in ICT
32,000 companies
76% service
12% wholesale
7.6% manufacturing
Canadian IT Sector
80% of companies employ 1-9 employees
14.8% of companies employ 10 to 50 employees
2.7% of companies employ 50 to 100 employees
2.5% employ 100 or more people,
120 companies employ over 500 people
16% to 20% of ICT workers are self employed
IT Market Overview
In 2005 contribution of $52 billion to the Canadian GDP
Unemployment rate for IT workers is 1.6% compared with 6.1% national average
Section Two: Future Trends in IT
Opportunity(Polyanna)
Growing demand for IT professionals
Homesourcing reduces outsourcing
IT Crisis?
Danger
(Chicken Little)
Recession impacts employment opportunities
Out sourcing to off-source companies
Good News
IT MARKET GROWTH
Net growth of some 58,000 jobs over the next 3-5 years.
Shortage of 100,000 skilled workers is expected by 2009; 1 million by 2016
2004 through the year 2014, Labor foresees computer support
specialist and systems administrator jobs growing 18 percent to 26
percent
: "Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2007-07 Edition").
IT Hot Jobs
Projected increases in demand specifically
IT Security,
Systems Infrastructure Software
Telecommunication Services
Hosted Application Management
DICE Report
Linux Jobs growth by 330%
Ajax growth by 100%
PHP and Python by 72%
MySql 50%
Ruby on rails 121%
Perl 22%
Top Certification Salaries
IC2 Security, 100,000+
Certified Information Systems Security Management Professional $116,000+
Certified Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSP-ISSAP) earning $111,870.
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE), with $104,020
Source ICTC: March 2006: IT/Software Salaries Growing in Last Four Years and Certification Magazine
Bad News
Winds of Change
By 2015, a shakeout will have occured and millions of the best
knowledge-based jobs in the world will become unfettered
Forbes Magazine Jobs 2.0
IT MARKET in US
The serious subprime mortgage meltdown in the US of 20% of mortgage market
Collapse of thousands of jobs financial sector ie. Countrywide laided off 10,000
US trade deficit near one Trillion dollar and growing, national debt over $9 Trillion, debt grows by $1.25 billion per day
North American Educational Market
Declining interest in science, math, and engineering
From 2004-5 to 2008-9 predicted that colleges will see a general
decline of 21 per cent in total enrollment in technology
programs.
Information Technology and Communication Council(April 2007
Barriers to Employment
70% of newcomers trying to enter the workforce confront at least one problem regarding transferability of foreign qualifications.
Canada receives 220,000 to 245,000 International Educated Professionals per year
Only one in four are women in IT
Experience Matters
Job and Business Strategy
Obtain job ready multiple skills
Secure well respected accreditation
Expand core skills to include business skills, communication skills, leadership,project management and interpersonal effectiveness
Linux Statistics
Linux market growth by 27% to a market of $11.8 Billion
Mobile market saw growth by 31%, 60% of phone built on Linux
Government adoption of Linux
15% of business considering Linux Desktop, Vista problems
Microsoft and Novell cooperation deal
Dell, IBM, Novell etc have a Linux strategy
IT MARKET GROWTH
LPI $71,350
Redhat RHCE $73,240
Novell CLE $84,000
http://www.certmag.com/articles/templates/cmag_feature.asp?articleid=981
Contact
Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities
Glenn McKnight
Email [email protected]
Http://www.fbsc.org
SKYPE gmcknight
Resources
Information and Communication Technology Council http://www.ictc-ctic.ca
US Debt clock http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
April 2007: Diversity: The Competitive Edge
http://www.ictc-ctic.ca/en/content.aspx?id=582