Ohios NextGeneration IT Workforce

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Ohios Next-Generation IT Workforce

• Keith EwaldOhio Department of Job and Family
  Services
• Office of Workforce Development
• Bureau of Labor Market InformationOctober 17th,
  2007

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Why Information Technologies?

• High-wages
• Promote overall high educational attainment
• Key to promoting other business growth
• Encourages entrepreneurship

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Occupational Age Distributions

• IT employment skews younger than other employment
  in the state
• Overall, this is a younger industry
• Employment mode is about ten years younger than
  total employment
• Challenges from the graying labor force will not
  be as acute in IT
• One fifth still expected to retire in the near
  future

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Age Distributions, 2000 Census
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By Occupation
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Occupational Growth

• Strong growth projected through 2014
• There will be almost 3,800 combined annual
  openings in these selected occupations
• Only one occupation expected to decline

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Replacement Rates

• Very low compared with total rate (23.6)
• Younger workforce than for all workers
• Projected growth, combined with a substantial
  number of replacement needs, will add to demand
  needs

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Replacement Rates in Selected Occupations
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Training Completers

• Demand for IT workers may not be matched by
  available supply
• 170 fewer IT-related program completers, 2005 to
  2006.
• Most growth in networking and information
  management

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IT Degree Completions, 2005 2006
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Skills- and Knowledge-Based Projections

• Of 16 selected soft skill sets, most can be
  increased through modest training
• Critical thinking
• Judgment and decision making
• Complex problem identification
• Specialized knowledge will take more effort to
  build up
• Esp. STEM courses and majors

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Skills-Based Projections to 2014
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Knowledge-Based Projections to 2014
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Resume Keywords for IT

• Primary keywords ASP, C, Clearance, DB2, J2EE,
  Net, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, SCI, Secret, TS,
  VB, WebSphere, XML
• 66.1 of resumes are read
• The more keywords that are included, the more
  likely that an electronic resume will be read.

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Questions?
Contact 614-466-9820 ewaldk_at_odjfs.state.oh.us