From the technology desk, Marketplace s Laura Sydell reports. Maria Schafer is an analyst with Meta Group. The focus has shifted from a seller's market, where you had someone with almost no experience finding a position to this year there being more of a buyer's market and companies being much more selective. The Meta Group study profiled 500 large American corporations and found some 600,000 available jobs. But these aren t necessarily glamour jobs.
Some positions require knowledge of a screwdriver to get inside the computer.
She says companies still want to advance technologically, but they are not as desperate. The product goals, the objectives are there. Everything is in place. It s just companies want to be very diligent in how they move forward. Parham says companies know they now have a wide pool of applicants from which to choose.