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Future Jobs and You - What the Research Predicts
July 2004
Compiled by Grace Gentry
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Computing Research Association and the National Science Foundation:
In 2010 America will have 10,000,000 more jobs than workers due to:
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Economy will generate more jobs
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Retiring Baby Boomers whose numbers greatly exceed those of generations entering the workplace
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Post 9/11 immigration policies slowing/limiting immigration
1,100,000 of those unfilled jobs will be “computer science occupations”
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6 out of the 10 projected fastest growing job classifications are “computer science occupations”
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Decline in degreed education and training, especially engineering, science and technology
The situation may be far worse because:
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63% of the Doctoral Degrees and 57% of the 15,906 Master’s Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduated by U.S. Institutions in 2003 went to Foreign Nationals.
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Further, 90% of them have temporary visas without work permits; and difficulty in obtaining work visas has increased significantly since 9/11.
In 2003 the Computer Research Association reported that the number of new undergraduate majors in computer science and computer engineering dropped 23%, from 23,033 to 17,706. The major reason for this appears to be negative images generated by media coverage of the dot-com melt down and the perspective that all the jobs are moving offshore.
By 2006 a growing American economy will begin to suffer from this shortage.
Trained talent will become increasingly hard to find - and increasingly expensive to hire!
As bad as this developing situation is for our nation, it spells OPPORTUNITY for those who get the education to become one of those scarce, high-paid computer science professionals in the future!
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