According to recent study conducted by Robert Half Technology, IT hiring is back on the upswing: 13 percent of CIOs plan to add to their IT staff whereas only 3 percent anticipate personnel reductions in the first quarter of 2008. This is good news because for awhile there IT was starting to look like it might be a dead-end career. Didn't it seem like layoffs and outsourcing jobs overseas was more the norm than calls for increased hiring?
And since readers of this blog are data and database professionals, it should come as good news to hear that database management skills were the third most sought after skill (behind Windows administration and network administration). Fully 59 percent of those surveyed cited database management skills as being a highly sought after skill set.
So don't despair DBAs, data architects and data analysts -- it would seem that CIOs are now recognizing that your skills are still needed... and that is a good thing!