Jim Lanzalotto Quotations

It costs a lot of money for a company to have a pipe big enough to handle that extra capacity.

You'll be a knowledge-based economy if you continue to attract companies that invest in talent and technology.

Between the growing need for information security experts, highly-knowledgeable ERP and Internet-based technology professionals, and advanced healthcare technology to help answer the call of aging baby boomers, our outlook for the technology employment market and its wages is optimistic for 2006.

Employers are more apt these days to consider candidates from other industries. Pharmaceutical companies are hiring, for example, and they have changed their outlook. They used to want only people with pharmaceutical experience, but now they're looking at people with strong brand-building experience, regardless of what industry they come from.

Ending 2005 with the highest wages for skilled technology professionals recorded in five years is a high water mark for the industry. Despite major economic setbacks during the year, the technology industry has demonstrated its strength and confirmed its power to propel the employment market in a positive direction. Between the growing need for information security experts, highly-knowledgeable ERP and Internet-based technology professionals, and advanced healthcare technology to help answer the call of aging baby boomers, our outlook for the technology employment market and its wages is optimistic for 2006.

Companies are being realistic now. They know they have to lock up great talent. It's very difficult to find the right people at the right price.

Anyone who has worked for a big brand-name company with a good reputation, and was successful there, has a real advantage, especially in moving to a different industry. Hiring someone is really a leap of faith, and interviewers know they can only tell so much about you from the interviewing process, so having that brand name in your background is important. It's almost like an endorsement.

It was interesting to me that it was considered the same as using the telephone on the job. But what about what companies spend on additional bandwidth?

I'm not going to call it robust but we're seeing manufacturing hiring across the board. We have a unit that focuses on the blue collar side and it's been on a roll for three or four years now.

Increased IT spending, the imminent medical needs of baby boomers, and hungry drug pipelines have improved job opportunities for technology and healthcare professionals.

Clinical research professionals in particular are seeing major jumps in wages, as orders for skilled workers in the biotech and pharmaceutical fields grow with industry demands and market dynamics for pipeline improvement.