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IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:46:23 -0400
Begin forwarded message: 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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