IT skills shortage a chance for unemployed workers

From Computerworld, March 12, 2009...

The argument over the so-called IT skills shortage has two familiar sides: On one hand, employers say they can't find the skilled IT workers they need to fill jobs. Even today, in the midst of a worldwide economic recession that has left millions of U.S. workers without jobs, employers claim that they can't find people with the right skills.

On the other side of the debate, legions of qualified IT workers (CompTIA estimates that there are 12 million of them) wonder how such a skills shortage exists when so many of them are looking for a job.

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