NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Growth in the job market isn't just Wal-Mart greeters or burger flippers any more.
A closer look at the strong April jobs report shows that higher-wage jobs are back -- finally growing a hair faster than lower-paying jobs for just the second time in nearly four years. It also happened last October.
And even some high-paying businesses that kept shedding workers while the overall job market rebounded modestly last year are finally showing job growth.
Mark Herschberg, author of The Career Toolkit
https://www.thecareertoolkitbook.com/
Originally posted by Don Stadler:
Very good news, if true. I see some signs that it might be so. But I also see a pattern of high contract rates and lowball offers on permanent positions. That may indicate high current demand but low expectations for the future....
Originally posted by Rob Aught:
Funny how the good news gets so few replies.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
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Computer system design and related services, which lost jobs from 2001 through early 2004, also posted a modest gain in April, a trend that started late last year.
Originally posted by Rob Aught:
I doubt software offshoring will work quite like manufacturing did. One thing that many people still big on offshore continue to fail to realize is that building software is not the same as building a car.
Which is not to say that all offshoring is worthless. I can see it as a benefit to the industry and even to those of us living in the US. The trend I'm waiting for is for technology professionals to have a voice again. It seems like ever since the crash we've been pretty much ignored. I'm still just flabberghasted at how often people with absolutely ZERO technical knowledge are the ones making the decisions affecting IT strategies. I know on the project I just left it was another team, outside of the IT group, that made all decisions as to what would happen and when. Even upgrade paths.
It's a backlash to what happened to just before the crash, when I saw IT professionals making ALL decisions if it had to go on their servers or run against their software. It was interesting to see marketing managers bowing to the whims of line programmers.
It would be interesting to see things STOP swinging back and forth and actually achieve some semblence of balance and cooperation. Frankly, in the current US corporate culture I don't see that happening though.
The only answer to this is for IT to take the same road taken by law and accounting, establish a true profession, organize and make business pay.
Mike Gershman
SCJP 1.4, SCWCD in process
Originally posted by Mike Gershman:
I hate to tell you this, but some law and accounting jobs have already been off-shored.
You meet locally with a Partner, but the grunt work of preparing a contract or a tax return can be done anywhere.
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