What Will 2011 Bring?

New IT employment numbers are a week away. They started to get better last fall, will it continue. Check out my latest GovInfoSecurity.com story on IT employment.

Recession Rocks IT Profession

The recession hit the IT profession hard in 2009.

Unemployment among information technology managers and staffers jumped to 5.2 percent last year, up from 2.5 percent in 2008, according to the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was the highest level of unemployment among IT pros in six years, when joblessness stood at 5.6 percent.

Annualized IT unemployment rose 0.5 percentage point from the third to fourth quarter of 2009, a GovInfoSecurity.com's analysis of BLS data released Friday shows.

For more details, check out my story on GovInfosecurity.com.