IT Staffing entries

It is a Very Good Time to Be a Software Developer [INFOGRAPHIC]

Title: It is a Very Good Time to be a Software Developer Takeaways: There are approximately 1.7M software developers, by a strict definition in the US For every software developer, there is another job as a DBA, analyst or support personnel For every software developer, there are even more jobs as QA, Salespeople selling the software, graphics designers, project managers and so on. There are nearly 250,000 open software development jobs 90% of software development jobs are outside Silicon Valley The average salary of these software development jobs is $104K 1% of the US population is employed as a [...]

5 Jobs That Will Be Created by Automation

Are you worried that a robot or AI system will replace you at work? If so, you should probably relax and even look forward to an exciting future. Automation may have replaced 800,000 jobs, according to one study. At the same time, automation generated about 3.5 million different jobs, and mostly, these jobs pay considerably more than the ones that were lost. Five Jobs Automation Created Take a look at some new opportunities that automation created or is likely to create soon: Service Jobs Automation helps create service jobs in a number of ways. For instance, Paneera Bread has enjoyed [...]

These 5 IT Hires Can Cost You an Extra Million [INFOGRAPHIC]

TITLE: These 5 IT Hires Can Cost You an Extra Million Sub Title: The Cost of a bad hire can be high. Hiring the wrong developer can cost you more than just their salary. Bad hires can cause a company to spend unnecessarily on many fronts. Takeaways The Rewriter - They never saw a piece of code they liked except what they wrote themselves. Every time they look at a piece of code, they state “we need to rewrite this” Why is it a problem - Not everything needs to be rewritten, especially if it is working. The Resume [...]

NEW: Online IT Salary Analysis Tool

Decide Consulting has just released it’s downloadable 2018 IT Salary survey. We received feedback requesting we publish the salary data online without requiring a sign-in or download. So we have created an online IT Salary Analysis Tool. It contains over 130 Job titles such as: Cloud Computing Analyst Project Manager / SCRUM Master NOSQL Developer Chief Security Officer Information Systems Security Manager Telecomm Engineer Front-End Web Developer Full Stack Developer We combined our survey results with job board data and cross reference all that with data from the Department of Labor / US Bureau of Labor Statistics. .For each [...]

How Employers Plan to Deal With the IT Skills Gap?

According to predictions based upon information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States will face a deficit of one million people to fill skilled computing jobs by 2020. Only a small fraction of employers say that higher education sufficiently prepares students for jobs in their organizations; Beyond that, for 600,000 current openings for IT jobs, only a little over 40,000 computer science majors graduated last year. Not only does the IT skills gap exist, it's likely to continue to exist in the next few years. Companies that can effectively deal with this challenge will continue to benefit [...]