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Has IT job market reached saturation point?

Date Published: 23rd February 2008
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ACCORDING to Steven Wright, the US comedian and actor, “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.” While studying Chemistry during school days, we were taught that when the solvent cannot digest more solute, the remaining solute is the precipitate, and remains undissolved. However, when the temperature is increased, the same disintegrated precipitate relocates its position and becomes part of the solution. Today, this analogy best describes the job scenario in the field of information technology. If you are planning for you IT Certifications and exams, like MCSE Trainng, CCNA Certification, IBM Exams Training, CompTIA Exams or other you can find useful information from www.testkingdom.com

During my school days, I witnessed a great score of MBAs and MBBS’ roaming around jobless or less-paid. In that seemingly despicable state, my advisory board made sure that I didn’t choose any of the two careers. The rationale provided was that the job market had reached saturation. Therefore, wanting to be on the safe side, I decided for not-very-popular field of study of the time, computer engineering. Not surprisingly, the electron cloud shifted towards this side of the Ion as well, and today the saturation stage has also struck information technology. What I would state here is that if you are behaving, as a non-dissolvable solute for the aqua solvent, then you can never dissolve anywhere, no matter how much you raise the temperature.


I would address the problem in the field of IT as not a result of saturation but right education. People emerging from institutions with 6 months’ training are regarded as engineers though they don’t qualify for the same. It’s just like treating nurses as doctors and calculating their heads to increase the number of professional-doctors. A health department would definitely look at it as sheer injustice to the noble profession of medicine. Unfortunately, there is no such body to evaluate the worth of true professionals.

The growth in the field of computers obeys inverse square laws of physics. The field of computers has grown in all directions. All the industry experts throughout the world believe that there is a dearth of genuinely skilled professionals. The similar situation prevails in our country where the software companies require IT professionals who can develop customized applications suited to an organization’s requirements.


Today, the “IT professional wanted” lists posted in the CS departments of IT institutes, such as SSUET, NED, BCCI Fast, SZABIS, by renowned companies verify the fact that the need for good IT professionals has not died yet and has not even reached a saturation level.

However, having said that the well-skilled experts are in great demand today, I would not deny the fact that the companies have right-sized their IT staff after a major hype in this sector. Even the companies admit that they have right-sized their manpower but not downsized.

One of the IT professionals, Mr. Philip, a habitat of Pakistan, believes that the US is still a very stable market as far as IT digestion is concerned. The only negative change that has occurred in the country’s job market is the reduction in salaries. The employees are now rightly paid to meet the expense and earning curves. The expectations of the markets were very high from the projects that were in the minds of silicon valley gurus and high-flying business mangers. To fulfill those unachievable targets, USA saw people being hired for packages, as good as $80k per annum, but this over-hyped situation failed to survive for long. The decline in salary packages was in the cards, even if the 9/11 incident was not seen as paper history.

The present job scene depicts that the graphs are balanced. As the doctors and specialist business grads are surviving, so are the IT individuals. All they need to do is to identify the thirst of the market and equip themselves with the latest tools required by the industry.

All FoxPro programmers who were very good market analyzers are now coding in visual environments on uncompromised packages, but if somebody sticks to a business software, such as FoxPro and denies upgrading, he will be left out as a precipitate.

Several local business organizations dreamed of achieving the status of a commerce solution provider (CSP). They expected some kind of miracle to happen. But this goal was achieved not by a big industry name but by a new company headed by a certain Asim Qureshi, who took TCS to online transactions with some help by Citi Bank. Quoting this example, I just want to say that there are many areas where right brainstorming and proper investment is required. Investment for the future is available, and is waiting for some entrepreneurs to come lift the show.

Eschools, eNews, eCommerce, eBanking, eCulture and many other portals are yet to be explored. The physics of my college days has taught me one more thing. The most stable curve is a sinusoidal curve. I believe it might appear that this sinusoid of an industry has crossed its upper peak and is approaching its lower one, but there is always more time for the curve to recover. The IT curve and the recession age are in their maturing period and the developers who have poured their blood should work harder and wait for the sinusoidal session to enter the positive scene and reach its peak.
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