Employment in tech occupations grew 12% YoY to a record 6.39M in November 2022, as workers eye banking, retail, health care, and manufacturing amid tech layoffs
Most tech jobs are now in mainstream industries like health care, banking and retail, which are increasingly in need of workers with digital skills. Tweets: @dealbook , @stevelohr , @scottlincicome , @andrenaleen , @nytimestech , @nytimestech , @nytimestech , @chiefmartec , @dialogcrm , @carnage4life , and @stevelohr Tweets: @dealbook : The employment shake-up in the tech industry has accelerated a shift of professionals looking beyond the most well-known employers. Now many tech jobs are in mainstream industries like health care and banking, which need workers with digital skills. https://www.nytimes.com/... Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : The big picture on tech jobs — across the economy, beyond the Silicon Valley belt-tightening. Not immune to a weakening economy, but remarkably resilient. w/ @trippmickle https://www.nytimes.com/... Scott Lincicome / @scottlincicome : “In a reordering of the market for tech workers, more technology professionals are looking beyond the well-known Big Tech employers to companies in many other industries that increasingly offer challenging opportunities.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Andrei Taranchenko / @andrenaleen : This is great news. Big Tech has been hogging new engineers who did nothing useful - stealing our data, mostly. Actual industries have been starved of tech talent for years, while tech bros, awash in easy cash, didn't know what to do with it. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimestech : The tech industry's retrenchment is making employment in other industry's like finance and retail more appealing to engineers. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimestech : “If this transition redeploys skilled tech workers to other sectors of the economy, that may very well be a healthy development,” said Tim Herbert, chief research officer at CompTIA. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimestech : The employment shake-up in the tech industry has accelerated a shift of professionals looking beyond the most well-known employers. Now many tech jobs are in mainstream industries like health care and banking, which need workers with digital skills. https://www.nytimes.com/... Scott Brinker / @chiefmartec : Every company is becoming a “software company”... As Silicon Valley Retrenches, a Tech Talent Shift Accelerates https://www.nytimes.com/... #martech @dialogcrm : “There have been ups and downs, but job growth in tech occupations has nearly doubled since 2000, when 3.33 million Americans were employed in tech occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.” https://www.nytimes.com/... @carnage4life : More people are creating software as their jobs than ever before. But we're going to see fewer people in their mid-thirties who are a director at FAANG with a net worth of $2.5M wondering why they can't afford a $10M house. https://www.nytimes.com/... Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Silicon Valley has been cutting. But tech jobs, across the economy, have increased this year. Why? Businesses in every industry are increasingly digital. They need tech talent. https://www.nytimes.com/...