Sunday, January 9, 2011

D.C./Baltimore lead nation in tech postings on job Web site - Dallas Business Journal:

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It's been nine months since the Washington/Baltimore job markert had the most postingson technology-jobs Web site Dice, althoug it has consistently ranked second. The region's postingx increased 11.1 percent from 8,809o in November to 9,790 in December, much fastert than the 2.4 percent national growth rate on theWeb site. The growtj regionally is being driven by the demand for technologhy workers withsecurity clearances, which increased by 19.
2 percenft to 7,347 postings from November to Companies likely increased their postings to staffc up in anticipation of new contractsd after the start of the federap fiscal year in October, a recruiter The demand for jobs is good for but bad for employers tryingt to keep their staff costs under "It's kind of impossible to manage a wage and salaruy program at a big company because if you don't make the righgt offer, the candidate has multiplwe choices of where to go," says Don Wallach, president of Potomac-based search firm .
The list of most-requested skills to go alont with security clearances shuffled a bit fromlast month, even thougb Internet software developers and military hardware engineers retained the top spots. Arabic or Farsiu language skills moved up one notch to thethirfd spot. Next was administrative assistant withpolygraphh clearance, a category that didn't appear last followed by network administrator.

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