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IT Jobs that are difficult to fill
Early in 2008 Department of Labour (DOL) and New Zealand government released a survey of IT Recruiters and their difficulties in recruiting skilled workers for certain IT occupations. The main outcome of this survey showed that 36 out of 50 IT occupations were difficult to fill. Filling these positions with skilled workers is important for New Zealand's economic growth and future development. The outcome of surveys like this one might be used to influence the skill shortage list to regulate immigration of skilled workers from overseas in a long and short term understanding, but it will also show employers where adjustments in terms of training, education and salary have to be made.
In the following some of the IT occupations are stated for which recruiters have a more than 80% difficulty to fill these positions:
- ICT security specialists (100%)
- Telecommunications network planner (100%)
- Telecommunications technical officer and technologist (93%)
- ICT systems test engineer (93%)
- ICT support and test engineer not elsewhere counted (85%)
- Telecommunications network engineer (84%)
- Telecommunications engineer (83%)
- ICT quality assurance engineer (83%)
- Software engineer (82%)
- Software and applications programmers not elsewhere included (81%)
(Survey of IT Recruiters 2008, February 2008, Department of Labour from http://dol.govt.nz/publications/jvm/recruit/2008/summary.asp)
ICT management positions in general weren't difficult to be filled, whereas ICT account managers and ICT business development managers were difficult to fill with over 70% of recruiters having difficulty to fill these positions. In the broad range of business and systems analysts and programmers ranking high next to software engineer and application programmers were analyst programmers and developer programmers each with 79%.
In summary it becomes obvious that New Zealand has plenty to offer for ICT Professionals. A broad range of jobs throughout the country is waiting to be filled by the right person. Obviously the above mentioned broad occupations sectors have many specialisation sections. To consult the detailed list of these specialisations check out the report on the DOL homepage. The following list just shows specialisations with a 85% or more difficulty to be filled:
- Application and Web Development
- J2EE- Java
- J2EE – JSP
- Coldfusion
- Microsoft Sharepoint Server
- Linc EAE
- Operating Systems
- IT Infrastructure Library
- ITIL Managers (Master) level certification
- Application Design and Processing
- Development Test Management
- Telecommunications
- IVR (Interactive Voice Response)
- SMS Integration
- UMTS
- E-commerce and ERP (Entreprise Resource Planning)
- SAP
- JDEdwards (Enterprise1)
- Oracle eBusiness Suite
- PeopleSoft
- Siebel
- Vignette
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Lawson Financials
- Database Design and Administration
- DB2
- Sybase SQL Server
- Teradata
- Interconnectivity
- OLAP and Analytical Software
- SAS
- SPSS
- SAP Business Information Warehouse
- DATA Warehousing
- Oracle OLAP
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- ESRI ArcGIS
- MapInfo
- Intergraph
- Networking Technology
- Cisco – CCIE
- Service Oriented Architecture
- System Security
- CISSP
- E-comerce Security
- Network Security
- PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
- RACF
- Cryptograhy
(For further information on the skill shortage list, see the DOL's skill shortage assessment reports: http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/jvm/shortage2007/summary.asp)
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