Mercado de trabalho para IT no Canada

Esta na moda falar sobre o mercado de trabalho para IT no Canada.

So pode ser isso. So assim para explicar a quantidade de gente que *NAO* eh da area de IT, que nem sequer sabe o que eh e do que se trata IT, falando do mercado como se entendesse alguma coisa.

Como eu sempre digo: desconfie de tudo o que voce le - inclusive do que eu escrevo - mas aqui vai uma materia que vale a pena ser lida, principalmente por quem esta tentando entrar no mercado de trabalho de IT no Canada.

In the GTA, the IT market experienced continued momentum from the previous month in both the public and private sectors. The public sector continues to experience an increased demand for IT professionals with health care experience, in addition to an increased demand for business intelligence specialists. The private sector has really begun to recognize the “consultants market” and is responding by picking up the pace through the candidate selection process. The banking industry continues to see the need for various roles including project managers, business analysts, developers and testers.

Rumours and chatter around the globe confirm that Toronto is gaining a reputation as a top destination for IT development and IT near-shoring activity. This coupled with the growth of Toronto’s financial services sector, sets the stage for some exciting times. According to the Canadian Bankers Association, Canada’s six largest banks collectively spent $3.9 billion on technology - more than double the $1.8 billion in annual technology spending seven years ago (Source: CBA, Technology and Banking). Other high growth industries affecting the GTA include: Healthcare, Hi-Tech, Retail, Professional Services and Telecom.

The Toronto Region Research Alliance (TRRA) recently released a study by IBM's New Jersey-based Global Location Strategies Team which compared Toronto to six of the most successful ICT venues worldwide in terms of its attractiveness as an investment location. The regions studied included Bangalore, Boston, Frankfurt, Manchester, San Jose and Washington, D.C.

The study looked at four ICT sub-sectors: digital media, professional shared services, next generation electronics and specialist software development.

Overall, the study found that Toronto's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector ranked with world leaders and finished well ahead of the pack in digital media. Toronto received top grades for quality and came second only to Bangalore for low operating costs. In next generation electronics and specialist software development, Toronto ranked very competitively against other North American alternatives.

Continuing to be known as the third largest ICT cluster in North America, Toronto ranked as the most ideal location in two sub-sectors, digital media and professional shared services.

Within digital media, Toronto received high marks for its strong base of creative industries, its large pool of computer programmers and creative media talent and its attractiveness as a place to live for international recruits.

This is all great news for Toronto’s ICT sector and promises interesting and busy times ahead for all of us working in this sector!

Hot skills in demand within the GTA continue to be: Java Developers, ASP, .Net, SAP (all modules), C#, Rational Rose. BAs in banking/insurance, QA leaders in insurance, Solutions Architects, BPO Consultants, System Analysts and Project Managers, SharePoint, SQL, Oracle, Tandem, Cognos, Java, and Mainframe.

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