CEOs predict Robust IT Growth

[rh71]

Could things be looking up ?

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3089581

 

[Scarpozzi]

That's all the IT industry needs is an optimist to get more college kids to choose CPSC as a major. I wish they'd just shut up and tell them that there are too many of us.

 

[0roo0roo]

you expect them to predict poor growth and not try to push up their stock options?

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
That's all the IT industry needs is an optimist to get more college kids to choose CPSC as a major. I wish they'd just shut up and tell them that there are too many of us.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
That's all the IT industry needs is an optimist to get more college kids to choose CPSC as a major. I wish they'd just shut up and tell them that there are too many of us.

 

[TechBoyJK]

CEOs predict Robust IT Growth

lol, of course they do.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: rh71
Could things be looking up ?

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3089581

Unless Pakistan and India go to war and all those developers and programmers get drafted into the army. Every morning on the radio I hear advertisements for the local IT school. No experience? Never touched a computer? Earn tons of money in 6 short months by earning a microsoft certification. These schools are not cheap and I feel sorry for the people who dump their low pay jobs, go to these schools, then have no job prospects when the finish.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Yeah, but that's the beauty of it. A sucker is born every minute. Someone gets rich and the victim gets smart....usually.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
you expect them to predict poor growth and not try to push up their stock options?

Ding! Ding! Ding!

 

[MaxDepth]

Uhm, not everybody.

It was to be a reported $12 million dollar gain but now this.
If the bean counters have their way, it could be a 5 to 7K in job cuts for them.

 

[Nightfall]

There are a lot of possibilities for IT people coming down the road. Computers are getting more and more necessary and their use just keeps growing. Everything is becoming computerized.

The whole IT field is changing though. Gone are the "paper" MCSEs and CNEs. Companies want someone with at least a bachleors degree for entry level. After that, it is all experienced based with some emphasis on certifications but not as much as it once was.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
you expect them to predict poor growth and not try to push up their stock options?

Ding! Ding! Ding!

You forget... they coulda done this in 2001... why now ?

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
you expect them to predict poor growth and not try to push up their stock options?

Ding! Ding! Ding!

You forget... they coulda done this in 2001... why now ?

2001 was still doing rather decent, at least around here. It was on the downslope and bottomed out last year and only now is it beginning to perk up a bit. But, a CEO would be remiss in his duties to not always pimp his stock price up

Anyone see that 60 Minutes interview Sunday?

 

[rh71]

On the same token, CEOs would be the people who decide whether their company is financially able to take on new/more employees as a whole... why wouldn't this come from them ?

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
you expect them to predict poor growth and not try to push up their stock options?

I think most of them try to be fairly objective and realistic. Otherwise they lose credibility.