Metrics - Philly IT Jobs

As of Tuesday May 27, 2008, these major career websites had the following number of IT jobs posted: (Prior 4 weeks moving average in parantheses, and in chart below)

Dice.com: Philadelphia Metro 2,808 (2,770), +SAP 456 (451), +Microsoft 486 (490)
CareerBuilder: Philadelphia Metro 1,321 (1,368), +SAP 73 (73), +Microsoft 351 (351)
Monster: Philadelphia Metro 1,932 (2,152), +SAP 200 (311), +Microsoft 452 (494)
HotJobs: Philadelphia Metro 422 (498), +SAP 35 (46), +Microsoft 71 (76)

Metrics - Philly IT Jobs

As of Monday May 19, 2008, these major career websites had the following number of IT jobs posted: (Prior 4 weeks moving average in parantheses, and in chart below)

Dice.com: Philadelphia Metro 2,745 (2,759), +SAP 407 (458), +Microsoft 513 (483)
CareerBuilder: Philadelphia Metro 1,328 (1,365), +SAP 62 (75), +Microsoft 339 (358)
Monster: Philadelphia Metro 2,025 (2,217), +SAP 233 (350), +Microsoft 466 (511)
HotJobs: Philadelphia Metro 420 (577), +SAP 32 (53), +Microsoft 74 (77)

Foreign-born U.S. IT Grads - Green Card Fixes Coming?

An excellent article on ComputerWorld by By Patrick Thibodeau lays it all out...

Although the H1B Visa issues creep along without resolution, 3 new bills have been introduced in the House that aim to help ease the difficulty foreign nationals working in the U.S. experience when trying to obtain permanent residency.

Fixing the permanent residency, or green card employment-based, visa program has been a top legislative goal of high-tech industry proponents, on par with their efforts to raise the H-1B cap.

HR 6039 will exempt graduates of U.S. universities with advanced degrees in science and tech — the so called STEM degrees (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) — from the annual 140,000 limit on these permanent residency visas.

Metrics - Philly IT Jobs

As of Monday May 12, 2008, these major career websites had the following number of IT jobs posted: (Prior 4 weeks moving average in parantheses, and in chart below)

Dice.com: Philadelphia Metro 2,735 (2,739), +SAP 484 (433), +Microsoft 496 (485)

CareerBuilder: Philadelphia Metro 1,376 (1,362), +SAP 67 (79), +Microsoft 355 (361)

Monster: Philadelphia Metro 2,232 (2,239), +SAP 337 (357), +Microsoft 506 (520)

HotJobs: Philadelphia Metro 416 (651), +SAP 33 (59), +Microsoft 81 (77)

10 IT Skills Employers Need Today

An article by Denise Duby on NetworkWorld outlines the top 10 IT skillsets that employers need to hire right now, and here they are:

• Wireless
• Virtualization
• Security
• Networking
• Application Delivery
• Web 2.0
• IT Business Analysis
• Database Management
• Business Intelligence & Data Mining
• Holistic "X Factor"

Metrics - Philly IT Jobs

As of Monday May 5, 2008, these major career websites had the following number of IT jobs posted: (Prior 4 weeks moving average in parantheses)

Dice.com: Philadelphia Metro 2,732 (2,762), +SAP 440 (419), +Microsoft 475 (492)
CareerBuilder: Philadelphia Metro 1,378 (1,383), +SAP 76 (84), +Microsoft 347 (369)
Monster: Philadelphia Metro 2,200 (2,265), +SAP 367 (358), +Microsoft 489 (534)
HotJobs: Philadelphia Metro 418 (651), +SAP 28 (60), +Microsoft 75 (81)