IT pros not lacking for employment, but may need to move The government is cutting back on IT recruitment and so are communications companies, but job prospects across the IT industry as a whole rose on the back of a recruitment boom in software houses, says a report from CWJobs. Adverts for permanent IT jobs in the public sector are down 40 per cent since last year as part of the …
I don't doubt for one minute that there are jobs out there; I suspect that there may be more people offering jobs. But I will say that using the Job Boards as a means of measurement of job availibility is not the most accurate way of calculating vacancies or skills required..
I've noticed that a number of jobs are duplicated on the various job boards; many times the same vacancy is offered by more than one recruiter. In some cases, a job is advertised, and then appears again at a slightly later date, in some cases multiple times. There have also been a growing number of recruiters that place ads "trawling" for active job seekers; once they have your name and skills, they mass mail businesses with these details, trying to find suitable vacancies that they were not previously aware of to earn commission.
On top of that, recruiters are notoriously poor at identifying what skill sets are really required by their customers. I think most of them must have a set of tickboxes with acronyms, and when they do talk to the customer, they just tick some of the boxes without actually trying to identify if that particular item is really what is needed. If the customer highlights something that's not on their list, they just select a box at random.
Just call me Mr Cynical; I've been looking for a new job for the last year. Anon because otherwise I think I might just end up with the opportunity to spend more time looking for a new job.
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I totally agree I have started to look for a new job about a month ago and I had 3 interviews, in I have not succeeded and the other one is still ongoing. After that I have replied to 26 ads from those 3 were for different positions all others were for the same things had already been for the interview.
For each vacancy there are at least (at least on my personal experience) 4 to 6 agencies placing ads for that hence there is an enormous amount of replication so the results should be normalized by a factor of at leas 3 or 4.
I also agree that the IT recruitment people lack the basic understanding of what is needed for a role plus the job specs requirements do not reflect what is going to be required in reality.
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