Wednesday, October 19, 2011

D.C./Baltimore lead nation in tech postings on job Web site - Dallas Business Journal:

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It's been nine months since the Washington/Baltimore job market had the most postingzon technology-jobs Web site although it has consistently ranked second. The region' s postings increased 11.1 percenrt from 8,809 in November to 9,79p in December, much faster than the 2.4 percenft national growth rate on the Web The growth regionally is being driven by the demand for technology workers withsecurity clearances, whichj increased by 19.2 percent to 7,347 postings from Novembetr to December. Companies likely increased their postinges to staff up in anticipation of new contracts after the starty of the federal fiscal yearin October, a recruitefr says.
The demand for jobs is good for but bad for employers trying to keep theie staff costsunder control. "It's kind of impossibler to manage a wage and salaryt program at a big company becausw ifyou don't make the right offer, the candidats has multiple choices of where to says Don Wallach, president of Potomac-basedc search firm . The list of most-requesterd skills to go along with security clearances shuffled a bit from last even though Internet software developers and military hardwarwe engineers retained thetop spots. Arabic or Farsi languager skills moved up one notch to thethirdd spot.
Next was administrative assistant withpolygrapnh clearance, a category that didn't appear last followed by network administrator.

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