STEM: Still No Shortage

by NateDad • 13 years ago

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NateDad• 13 years ago

Note, this is the study referenced by the article: http://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill...

The article does not jive with my personal experience. Everyone I know in IT can walk off the job and onto another one without batting an eye. Even the crummiest developer I know got a new job in a couple weeks of looking. Every software company I know says they have difficulty finding qualified applicants.

"In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. colleges graduate 50 percent more students than are hired into those fields each year; of the computer science graduates not entering the IT workforce, 32 percent say it is because IT jobs are unavailable, and 53 percent say they found better job opportunities outside of IT occupations. "

I wonder how they calculate this. If someone goes to write software for a finance company, does that count as being "in the field"? What are these computer science graduates doing that has more opportunities than software development?

Anyone have any insight into this? Are current college grads with CS degrees really having so much difficulty finding jobs that they have to go find jobs elsewhere, and if so, what are they doing?

STEM: Still No Shortage

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