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IT Jobs Market Healthy, Particularly for Software Developers
eWeek, July 11
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Two reports focusing on the IT jobs market project a positive hiring outlook for technology professionals, particularly for software developers. In the U.S. IT sector, employment surged in June, adding 32,100 new jobs to more than offset job losses experienced in May, according to CompTIA's analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment data released at the beginning of July. Overall IT sector employment was estimated at 4,389,600 jobs as of June 30. All categories within the IT sector, with the exception of tech manufacturing, recorded positive job growth in June. That's leading to renewed optimism for the remaining six months of the year.
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13 Top Paying Cities For Software Engineers
Computerworld, July 6
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According to the latest data from online jobs marketplace Glassdoor, salaries for software engineers are booming in a growing number of cities across the nation. But don't overestimate what you're really making – you will also need to factor in the cost of living for that city. As a result, it's important to look at the ratio of each city's median software engineer base salary to its official cost of living figures from the federal government. Based on this analysis, the Top 10 highest paying cities for software engineers include popular tech hubs Raleigh, Austin and Boston – as well as some cities that you might not expect, such as Madison, Sacramento and Omaha.
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LinkedIn's Top Three Secrets To Getting Hired In 2016
Fast Company, July 13
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IT workers need to stay ahead of changes in the tech sector by constantly updating the skills they need to be competitive, as well as staying ahead of new ways people work, search for jobs and get hired. In short, in order to stay ahead of the competition in 2016 and into the next few years, you will need to keep ahead of the big macro trends that are shifting the structure of the overall employment market. Work your connections, keep learning, stay flexible and always keep an eye on the market, because new, never-before-seen opportunities will be waiting around every corner.
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4 Signs It's Time to Look For A New Job
CIO.com, July 7
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Given the tech skills gap and the demand for top talent, there's no reason to stay with a company that's struggling to survive, or to settle for an IT role in which you're not happy. You should be able to recognize the signs that it's time to look for a new job, whether they are external factors, such as your company having financial difficulties, or internal factors, such as not feeling fulfilled in your current position. Whatever the motivation, there are a number of indicators, both external and internal, that can tell you it's time to move on.
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Why Open Source is a Draw for Job Candidates
FCW.com, July 12
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As employers in the public sector are finding out, in the search for top IT talent, one big attraction for top candidates is the ability to use new open source technologies that they might not be able to use in private sector jobs. The number of top IT candidates is limited, and it has been a challenge for federal agencies to compete with the deeper pockets and flexibility of private sector companies. Traditionally, they have appealed to candidates' sense of challenge and desire to make a difference. But that doesn't always work, especially if there is a significant gap in compensation levels, so agencies are experimenting with other ways to attract top candidates, such as open source technology.
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Stack Overflow Surveyed 56,000 Developers
Tech Republic, July 12
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Stack Overflow recently released the results of its 2016 Developer Survey, which provides a broad overview of the job titles, career tracks and technologies that are most popular with software developers around the world. More than 56,000 developers from 173 countries participated in the research, answering 45 questions about topics such as their job function and their preferred programming languages. The top job titles represented in the results included Full-Stack Web Developer (28.0%), Back-End Web Developer (12.2%), Mobile Developer (8.4%) and Desktop Developer (6.9%).
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4 Tips To Help You Rethink How To Attract Talent
Entrepreneur.com, July 12
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If your organization wants to be known as a premier destination for top talent, it will regularly need to rethink and update the way it attracts and retains that talent. It's best to do this before top talent starts to slip away in search of better opportunities elsewhere. The important point to keep in mind is that most employees are at least passively looking for a new job on a continual basis, and they are always interested in new opportunities. That means you continually need to make sure that your organization can match or beat opportunities elsewhere. With that in mind, the article provides several strategies that employees can use both to attract more qualified candidates and win back the ones who got away.
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Success Is Not a Matter of Luck - It's an Algorithm
CNBC (via Medium), July 12
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The secret to a successful career is the ability to understand what motivates you, and then use that knowledge to help you make the best possible career choices. You can think of it as a six-step algorithm, in which you start by exploring your meaning. The ability to follow this algorithm is what accounts for the success of some of the top minds in the tech sector. The important point is that this algorithm can be personalized and adapted for your own career. The key is engaging your potential, your purpose, and the people around you. It's about spending more time on the things that really matter to you so that you get what you want out of both your personal and professional life.
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Booming Computer Science Enrollments
Communications of the ACM, July 2016
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Over the past few years, computing departments across the country have faced huge increases in course enrollments. To understand the extent and nature of these higher enrollments, the Computing Research Association (CRA) has undertaken a new study. In addition to attempting to identify the extent of the boom in CS enrollments, the CRA is trying to understand which students are making up this boom. The study also aims to determine how academic departments are coping with higher enrollments, such as by increasing class size or the number of faculty members. The hope is that answers to these questions will enable university administrators and computing departments to develop better strategies for managing booming enrollments.
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A Very Local Snapshot of K-12 CS Education
Blog @ CACM, June 30
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To understand the role that computers will play in the tech careers of the future, it's important to find out how the upcoming generation of young students is thinking about computer science and the types of problems they think that computers can solve. The good news is that many students have already done a lot of thinking about computers and user interfaces. They have a wide range of both formal and informal training in computer science, and some have experience with different programming languages and adjacent fields such as robotics. However, they have not done as much thinking about the types of problems that computers will solve in the future.
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