Even dot-coms are hiring. But while IT organizations are hiring, job availability varies widely. And hiring in the dot-com sector is by no means a given, especially in New York s Silicon Alley. CarDay Inc., for example, will try to get by this year with only six IT staffers. So talk to IT job seekers who are victims of the gloomy dot-com weather, and they will tell you that getting off unemployment is taking far longer than they expected.
More candidates seem to be available, IT hiring managers say.
And companies are typically filling open positions in six weeks to three months. N.C. The candidates that would be on the market regardless are seeking more job security, plus several local organizations have downsized, introducing some excellent candidates into the market that would not have been there otherwise. We ve found it easier to acquire new people than it s been in a long time, and . . . at salaries that make sense. In fact, Streitenberger had slated 16 new positions for the first half of this year, and he filled the majority of them before the end of December. By early March, RMIC s IT department was only a couple of positions away from being where we wanted to be at the end of Q1, he says.