An updated version of the Job Market for IT with an emphasis on the Canadian market

1. Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities IT Jobs Overview Opportunities and Challenges By Glenn McKnight

3. Opportunities

4. Strategy for implementation

5. Conclusions

8. 12% wholesale

9. 7.6% manufacturing

11. 14.8% of companies employ 10 to 50 employees

12. 2.7% of companies employ 50 to 100 employees

13. 2.5% employ 100 or more people,

14. 120 companies employ over 500 people

15. 16% to 20% of ICT workers are self employed

18. Unemployment rate for IT workers is 1.6% compared with 6.1% national average

19. Section Two: Future Trends in IT

22. Out sourcing to off-source companies

23. Good News

25. Shortage of 100,000 skilled workers is expected by 2009; 1 million by 2016

26. 2004 through the year 2014, Labour foresees computer support specialist and systems administrator jobs growing 18 percent to 26 percent : "Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2007-07 Edition").

28. Systems Infrastructure Software

29. Mobile Applications

30. Hosted Application Management

31. Scalable Computing

32. Open Source Software Solutions

34. Ajax growth by 100%

35. PHP and Python by 72%

36. MySql 50%

37. Ruby on rails 121%

38. Perl 22%

40. Certified Information Systems Security Management Professional $116,000+

41. Certified Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSP-ISSAP) earning $111,870.

42. Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE), with $104,020

43. Source ICTC: March 2006: IT/Software Salaries Growing in Last Four Years and Certification Magazine

44. Bad News

45. Winds of Change By 2015, a shakeout will have occured and millions of the best knowledge-based jobs in the world will become unfettered(decoupled from Western job locations) Forbes Magazine Jobs 2.0

47. Collapse of thousands of jobs financial sector, auto sector and beyond

48. Nov 2009 US unemployment reached 10%

49. US trade deficit near one Trillion dollar and growing, national debt over $9 Trillion, debt grows by $1.25 billion per day

51. 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

53. Canada receives 220,000 to 245,000 International Educated Professionals per year

54. Only one in four are women in IT

55. Experience Matters

57. Secure well respected accreditation

58. Expand core skills to include business skills, communication skills, leadership,project management and interpersonal effectiveness

60. Mobile market saw growth by 31%, 60% of phone built on Linux

61. Government adoption of Linux

62. 15% of business considering Linux Desktop, Vista problems

63. Microsoft and Novell cooperation deal

64. Dell, IBM, Novell etc have a Linux strategy

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72. US Debt clock http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

73. April 2007: Diversity: The Competitive Edge http://www.ictc-ctic.ca/en/content.aspx?id=582