{"id":15,"date":"2005-06-30T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2005\/06\/it-enrollments-down-but-theyll-come-back-believe-me.html"},"modified":"2005-06-30T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T15:47:00","slug":"it-enrollments-down-but-theyll-come-back-believe-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/it-enrollments-down-but-theyll-come-back-believe-me\/","title":{"rendered":"IT enrollments down but they&#039;ll come back &#8211; believe me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Tucci documents the dramatic <a href=\"https:\/\/searchcio.techtarget.com\/originalContent\/0,289142,sid19_gci1096260,00.html\">drop  in college computer science enrollments<\/a> on SearchCIO.com this month. The  decline is as much as 70% over the last 15 years by one measure.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot that can explain this: outsourcing has put IT folks out of work, technology budgets have shrunk since the tech bubble burst and competing fields like finance and real estate development have looked a lot more lucrative recently.<\/p>\n<p>But mainly this is a cyclical trend. CS enrollments have followed a sine wave pattern for many years in a contra-pattern with IT budgets. It&#8217;s a constant imbalance: computer enrollments decline when tech spending drops off and then when spending picks up again, there are too few students to hire. So enrollments increase.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, SearchCIO.com documented this trend  conveniently in an article just two days after the first one, reporting that <a href=\"https:\/\/searchcio.techtarget.com\/originalContent\/0,289142,sid19_gci1097115,00.html\">14%  of CIOs plan to hire while only 3% plan to cut staff in Q3<\/a>. What&#8217;s driving  the trend? A bullish business outlook and the need to deploy new technology. The  sine wave continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Tucci documents the dramatic drop in college computer science enrollments on SearchCIO.com this month. The decline is as much as 70% over the last 15 years by one measure. There&#8217;s a lot that can explain this: outsourcing has put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/it-enrollments-down-but-theyll-come-back-believe-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}