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No Talent: Solution Providers Despair Over Job Seekers

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No Talent: Solution Providers Despair Over Job Seekers
DATE: 17-JUL-2007
By Deborah Perelman

Ask a channel executive if it's hard to get good help these days and get ready for an earful.

Just when the need for qualified IT technicians is greater than ever, the talent pool is thinnest, according to channel employers and analysts. Observers attributed this to a number of reasons, including a hangover from the dot-com bust of a few years ago and the spate of layoffs it caused, a mismatch between the actual skills of applicants and job qualifications, double-digit drops in college enrollments for computer science majors and the inability of channel companies to attract recruits who would rather work for IT vendors with recognizable names.

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Exacerbating the problem is that as technology in such areas as wireless and VOIP (voice over IP) becomes more affordable, it fuels demand. And while that is a positive development, it also makes the need for IT talent even more acute.

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