It 'help Wanted' Listings On Hold

摘要

IT professionals looking for work should expect the number of open positions to decline in coming months as those employed in high-tech brace themselves for budget cuts, possible pay cuts and layoffs. Despite statistics from earlier this year pointing to job growth across technology sectors, the economic unrest that started in late September has many IT industry-watchers forecasting a slowdown in high-tech job creation through the early part of next year. The big layoffs announced recently by such tech companies as Sun and Nokia don't bode well for the IT job market, but neither do huge workforce cutbacks at such companies as Citigroup that have big IT staffs.