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Media Credit: cs.cvtc.edu A study by Chippewa Valley Technical College's It Program seems to agree with the Pace/SkillPROOF IT report.

Students with majors within Information Technology seem to be in luck when it comes to finding jobs within the area.

The markets for jobs in Information Technology (IT), in Westchester and Manhattan were reported to be strong in this year's third quarter, according to Pace/SkillPROOF IT Job Index.

SkillPROOF Inc., a technology firm which specializes in job Market research, and Pace provided two separate reports for the markets in Westchester and Manhattan. The market in Manhattan was especially strong.

"The historic trend of the IT market in Manhattan…maintains an upward slope indicating a healthy market in the future," said the report for Manhattan.

Eight out of the eleven subcategories for IT jobs improved from last quarter. The report said that the strongest demand for jobs was in Computer Support/Personnel and Other Specialists. These sub-categories include: IT Managers, Computer Scientists/Research, Programmers, Software Engineer Systems, Computer Support Specialists, System Analysts, Database Administrators and Other Specialists.

In Westchester, the report said four categories improved: Database Administrators, Network Systems & Data Communications Analyst, IT Managers and Other Specialists.

As a whole, Westchester IT job market, according to the report, "remained above the level of a year ago."

In both the Westchester and Manhattan markets there was demand for Other Specialists, jobs that didn't specifically fall into the other ten categories.

The report said this might be explained by the "overall uncertainties about technology."

"Firms may be postponing hiring until the market is more robust and are satisfying their immediate needs by hiring in this more general category," it said.

This positive statistics come as good news, considering the five percent drop the IT market explained last quarter. The report explained that financial circumstances over the summer, including a "sub mortgage crisis", and the tendency of the summer time market to be slow, as managers and job recruiters take vacation time might have affected the market's performance.

The trend of IT majors at Pace seems to be increasing along with the job market.

"The number of full-time freshman in computing at Pace has increased for the first time since 2001 and is up 43 percent this fall over fall 2006," said Susan M. Merritt, Ph.D., dean of Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems in an Oct. 10 press release by Pace.

"The good news about technology seems to be coming to the attention of young people, their families and their teachers."

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