St. Louis CIOs Report on First-Quarter Hiring Outlook
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ST. LOUIS, Dec. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 14 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the St. Louis area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the first quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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A pair of Forrester Research analysts gave CIOs a passel of advice Thursday on how to deal with the possibility of a U.S. economic recession.&quot;We are not predicting a recession, but we think its important for CIOs to be proactive, to get their businesses ready in case there is a recession,&quot; said analyst Andrew Bartels, who conducted the teleconference with colleague Alex Cullen.Their recommendations boiled down to a number of main themes: The right ways to cut costs, to work closely with CFOs, and to plan not only for the lean times but for the good ones that inevitably follow.&quot;Get close to your CFO. You want to be arm in arm with that CFO,&quot; Bartels stressed.Forrester said there is a 55 percent probability the economy will remain essentially stabilized, due to factors including U.S. exports boosted by a weak dollar. The firm projects a 35 percent chance the country will enter a shallow recession, and a 10 percent chance it will fall into a deep one.The analysts said to watch for two key warning signs: Gas prices rising above $4 a gallon and two or more consecutive months of non-farm payroll employment.If they haven&#39;t already, CIOs should prepare now by reviewing their portfolios and identify which projects could be postponed, cut, or cancelled, he said.&quot;If you&#39;re running things well, adapting to recession is easier,&quot; Cullen noted.The tradeoffs vary depending on the type of cut, he said. For example, delaying hardware purchases could result in increased service outages.CIOs could also try other tactics, such as renegotiating vendor pacts or enacting hiring freezes, according to Forrester. Such measures could antagonize business partners and overburden staff, they said.But those types of risks are mild in comparison to that posed by cutting certain types of &quot;low-hanging fruit,&quot; such as time and support for research and development.&quot;These things look like they don&#39;t have immediate payback, so the question is &#39;Why are we doing them when times are tight?&#39;&quot; Cullen said.Likewise, it would be foolish to pull money and resources away from architectural strategy, he argued: &quot;You&#39;re going to be impeding your ability to take a long-term view of IT investments. When the tap opens up again people are going to be creating silos ... and you&#39;re going to spend your time unwinding these things.&quot;&quot;The worst thing you can do as a CIO is get so focused on cuts that when you come out of a recession, your department can&#39;t take the business where it wants to be,&quot; Bartels added.Outsourcing IT may also look like an appealing option, but the analysts issued a stern warning against it as a quick fix.Large-scale outsourcing deals take a long time to close, for one thing, Cullen argued: &quot;This is not near-term savings. This is not 2008 savings.&quot; But outsourcing of a particular IT function could make sense, he said.The hot trend of the past couple of years -- SaaS (software as a service) -- is not necessarily a fitting remedy during a recession, the analysts argued. While SaaS vendors relentlessly tout the cost savings their offerings can provide, it would cost a lot more to rip and replace legacy assets with SaaS products, the analysts said. However, they added, SaaS might offer lower upfront costs for a new technology.
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DETROIT, June 6  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 11 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Detroit area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the third quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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DALLAS, June 6  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 10 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Dallas/Fort Worth area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the third quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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The prospect of finding a job in the area is still strong moving into the first quarter, according to the most recent Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
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DALLAS, Dec. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 15 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Dallas/Fort Worth area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the first quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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DETROIT, Dec. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 25 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Detroit area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the first quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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PHOENIX, March 6  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 21 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Phoenix area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the second quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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Companies&#39; hiring plans could cool early next year, according to a new survey by Manpower Inc. Some local job experts, though, question the employment agency&#39;s findings.
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First-quarter hiring plans among US employers increased from the same period a year earlier, according to a survey released today by Manpower Inc.
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The number of US information technology workers rose 2 percent to 10.5 million in the first quarter of this year, but demand for them is dropping, according to a new report.
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IT professionals can expect a moderate increase in starting salary, a staffing firm says.
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ST. LOUIS, June 6  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 10 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the St. Louis area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the third quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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British companies plan to hire more new employees in the first three months of next year compared with plans made for the first quarter of this year, employment agency Manpower says.
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PHOENIX, Dec. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 18 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Phoenix area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the first quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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If finding a new job is one of your New Year&#39;s resolutions, you&#39;ll be happy to know the hiring prospects for the first-quarter are much brighter than a year earlier, according to a Manpower survey released Tuesday.
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Chief information officers (CIOs) are being given a little bit of wiggle room from the intense cost-cutting pressures that have tethered them over the past few years, and expect to increase their IT budgets by an average 2.5 percent this year, according to Gartner.