Careers in IT
Information Technology Facts
- More than 19,000 IT jobs are unfilled at large and midsize
companies in the United States (1997 ITAA study)
- Average salary for entry-level positions in the IT field is $26,000
to $36,000 a year. (1996 Datamation Salary Survey)
- 83 percent of employers say they have difficulty finding enough
employees with technical education.
- In a 1997 survey, more than two-thirds of IT companies cited a
lack of skilled workers as a barrier to future corporate growth.
(1997 ITAA study)
- More than 80 percent of IT graduates from BCC find employment
within three months of graduation. (BCC Career Resource Center)
- 82 percent of IT companies expect to hire more workers. (1977
ITAA study).
- Within a 30-mile radius of BCC are more than 1,900 firms that
specialize in information technology or biotechnology.
- Currently over 80 percent of BCC's high-tech grads find work
within three weeks of graduation.
- By the year 2000, one third of all United State's jobs will be
Information Technology related
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