Dice Q1 Tech Job Report Shows Encouraging Growth in Tech Hiring with a 28% Increase in Job Postings
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Tech hiring surged in the first quarter, as optimism for a swift economic recovery drove tech job postings up 28% nationwide, according to the Q1 2021 Tech Job Report from Dice, a DHI Group, Inc. brand (NYSE: DHX). The strong quarter caps off four solid months of growth in tech job postings, presenting encouraging news for skilled technologists and a promising outlook for the tech hiring landscape. Tech hiring was at near record levels prior to the pandemic, and the data in our Q1 Tech Job Report shows that the demand for skilled technology talent is ramping up considerably. We saw open tech positions surpass 307,000 in March, and in the first quarter of this year, 60% of employers created more job postings than in Q1 2020, said Art Zeile, CEO of Dice, a DHI Group brand. The continuous surge
This is good news for Amazon’s workers. But employees at other firms have reason to cheer, too. A recent paper by Ellora Derenoncourt of the University of California, Berkeley, and Clemens Noelke and David Weil of Brandeis University finds that when big American firms increase wages for their hourly workers, the change tends to spill over to other local employers. Using a database of online job adverts from Burning Glass Technologies, a labour-market analytics firm, and surveys from Glassdoor, an employer-review website, Derenoncourt and her colleagues found that when Amazon raised its minimum wage to US$15 in October 2018, an increase of roughly 20 per cent, nearby employers increased their advertised hourly wages by 4.7 per cent, on average.
Class of 2021: Four Ways to Help COVID-Era Grads Adapt to the Working World
By Lindsey Pollak
On 4/29/21 at 7:00 AM EDT
Pandemic Grads Need You: Become a micro-mentor
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Wearing a cap and gown. Listening to inspiring words from assorted luminaries. Hearing the dean of students read off your name not in person, but from a Zoom screen. Such is the state of college graduations these days. But this isn t only about missing out on experiences most of us have enjoyed. The Class of 2021 is entering a challenging job market, perhaps like none other. While recent unemployment numbers have been encouraging, hiring for entry level, college grad positions has fallen 45 percent since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Burning Glass Technologies, a labor-market analytics firm.
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CyberSeek™ Strengthens the US Cybersecurity Workforce with New Data and Resources on Careers, Credentials and Employment Options
Free resource from the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education contributes to building a diverse and skilled cyber workforce
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WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ CyberSeek™, the most comprehensive source of information on America s cybersecurity workforce, has expanded and updated its resources in its ongoing effort to close the cybersecurity talent gap. The updates were unveiled today in conjunction with the Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Summit. These updates are timely as the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Strategic Plan aims to promote the discovery of cybersecurity careers and multiple pathways to build and sustain a diverse and skilled workforce, said Rodney Petersen, Director of the NICE.