Big Changes Noticed in the Marketplace

Three years ago when Bill Kasko, President of Dallas-based staffing agency Frontline Source Group Inc., was quoted in Computer World, the demand for Network and Java developers was limited. Today, he “can’t get enough of them.”

“Networking people are hard to find,” said Kasko. “There is an unexpected demand for not only Java, but also for software development experience with Qtopia, a system we had never heard of nine months ago.”

With the recent scandals that resulted in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, CEOs can now be held liable for mistakes made by their company’s accountants. Consequently, the demand for Internal Auditors has risen as company heads seek to protect themselves from possible prosecution.

“I would say the demand for Internal Auditors has more than doubled in the last four years,” Kasko said. “Of course, that is all because of Sarbanes-Oxley.”

The jump in demand for Java Developers and Qtopia experience is less cut and dry.

“Companies finally have the money to update their programs and website, but after the IT bubble burst in the nineties, many Java developers simply left the field,” Kasko said. “The problem is not finding people with past Java experience, but finding people with current Java experience who are looking for a change in position.”

For job seekers, the reasons for the jump in demand are not as important as the results: an increase in pay and long term opportunities.

“An Internal Auditor position that pays $75,000 today was paying at times up to 15% less four years ago,” Sherrie Dvorak, a recruiter at Frontline Source Group, said. “Internal auditors and Java Developers need to get their resumes out there. Even if you are already gainfully employed, there may be a better paying opportunity for you.”

Finding Java developers is hard at any price, according to Dvorak. “The skills are far and few between,” Dvorak said. “If you’re an experienced Java developer, or if you have worked with Symbian or Qtopia, we want to hear from you.”

The question job seekers should be asking is if this trend will continue, especially in relation to interest rates. Despite the Fed’s decision to keep interest rates the same, some say it is only a matter of time before rates rise again. Kasko expects even more changes since the Fed’s announcement.

“The Fed’s decision to pause interest rate increases puts companies in an odd position,” Kasko said. “There is an uncertainty in the market that we see reflected in our office.” Frontline Source Group, often asked to participate in the “Beige Book” economic survey, is often an accurate representation of market changes.

“When the Fed paused, the companies paused,” Kasko said. “But the IT and Auditing opportunities kept going because the bottom line is that the demand is still high.”

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