[IP] IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: March 10, 2008 8:03:03 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth

[Note:  This item comes from friend Mike Cheponis.  DLH]

From: Mike Cheponis <mac@wireless.com>
Date: March 10, 2008 1:38:39 PM PDT
Subject: IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth

"For the past few years, we've heard a number of analysts and high- 
profile IT industry executives, Bill Gates and Craig Barrett among  
them, promoting the idea that there's an ever-present shortage of  
skilled IT workers to fill the industry's demand. But now there's  
growing evidence suggesting the "shortage" is simply a self-serving  
myth.

"It seems like every three years you've got one group or another  
saying, the world is going to come to an end there is going to be a  
shortage and so on," says Vivek Wadhwa, a professor for Duke  
University's Master of Engineering Management Program and a former  
technology CEO himself. "This whole concept of shortages is bogus, it  
shows a lack of understanding of the labor pool in the USA.""


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