Competition Is Mounting for Systems Engineering Skill Sets [GENERAL CERTIFICATION NEWS]

An article on the eWeek.com website by Don E. Sears is calling out to IT Pros - “Enterprise and network architects, listen up: Your skills are a hot commodity as companies mount new initiatives in automating and virtualizing the data center and desktop”

I’ve stated this many times over the past year in person and on many prior posts; the economy IS slowly (very slowly) recovering. As such there is a small but increasing demand for people with IT skills.

While the well is sort of full with water due to layoffs from the worldwide recession, this is slowly and subtlety changing. The well will begin to run low over the next 12 to 18 months in my opinion.

Some places are hiring and they are trying to grab who they can with the skill sets they need at a reduced salary cost, mainly due to the power position of hiring in this recession where there are still skilled people out of work and looking for employment.

At some point we’ll reach a tipping point; some catalyst will force a major player to aggressively hire and they will need to bring higher salaries to the table in order to poach the holders of these skill sets that are already working for competitors (or even partners).

I don’t believe we’ll necessary see the type of hiring jumps and salary offers as we did at the end of 1998 and 1999 (and into 2000) but it will be a marked improvement from what we’ve seen over the past 18 months.

Having said that, in certain scarce skills areas like SharePoint and security, we may well see some marked jumps regardless. Some of that would be having the right skills and “right place, right time.”

For some additional insight and opinion on this please see - Competition Is Mounting for Systems Engineering Skill Sets