CIOs gripe they can’t find skilled workers; displaced IT pros complain they can’t find decent jobs. How can both be right?In the musical "Fiddler on the Roof," the protagonist Tevye listens to a fellow townsman’s political argument, and says, “He’s right.” But when a stranger takes the opposite view, Tevye also responds, “He’s right.” “He’s right and he’s right,” another villager says. “How can they both be right?” To which Tevye replies, “You know, you’re also right.”
That scene reminds me of a troubling development in IT: the employment disconnect. On one hand, IT employment is at record levels, reaching nearly 4 million workers in the last quarter, and CIOs gripe they can’t find enough qualified people to fill business-technology positions.
