More Good News about IT Jobs in St Louis

The IT Coalition is continuing to monitor the health of IT related jobs in the St. Louis area. We hope you will find the information below helpful to you.

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Robert Half's Technology IT hiring index & skills report indicates that for the 1qtr 2009, CIOs report that 12% will hire more staff and only 4% will make reductions. The 12% represents an increase of 5% over the 7% for this quarter.
St Louis' market is stronger than the national on both fronts, 17% plan increases and only 2% a decrease.

Gateway to Innovation Conference '09

Gateway to Innovation conference will be held all day April 29, 2009.
An event for all IT professionals and users of Information Technology in the St Louis region

IT Jobs at Scottrade

There was a great article in the St. Louis Business Journal (November 14 - 20) regarding "Scottrade Flying High". Jane Wulf, their human resources director states in the article, "Scottrade plans to hire 250 IT employeees in 2009, with almost all based in St. Louis."

This is great news for the St. Louis IT Community. Keep checking our blog for more exciting information concerning the IT Community.

Technology Entrepreneur Center Gets a Facelift

The Technology Entrepreneur Center has launched a new website. We are interested in you viewing the website and also commenting on it.

The url is http://www.tecstl.org

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IT in Missouri government

Every day we learn more about how dependent our leading enterprises/economy are on Information Technology. But few of us are aware that Missouri state government is one of only five states that received an "A" in the use and deployment of information technology.
The ranking was performed by the PEW Center "Government Performance Project" This projects ranks all states in four performance ares and five categories within each performance area. Missouri ranked in each of the IT categories as "strength". In addition it is significant that we improved from an "A-"ranking in 2005 by the same evaluation method (In 2005 no state received an "A") I hope that as we become more and more aware that our prosperity depends heavily on the use of technology that we translate the awareness into actions that will assure us that we have the talent, the investment priorities and public policy to enhance our competitive advantage in the global market place

UPDATE on St. Louis IT Community

The St Louis metro area is the BEST place for an IT career if you want to work in one of the nation's 100 Best places to work in IT according to ComputerWorld. Only the Washington DC metro area, New York city and Chicago have more (3) places to work in the top 100, however they have 3-4 times the number of workers.
St Louis has six(6) places to work out of these 100, the Highest concentration in the US.
Our 2008 ComputerWorld recognized employers are:
Anheuser-Busch
Edward Jones
Maritz
Monsanto
National Information Solutions Coop
Scottrade

Gateway to Innovation Conference Sponsors

The Gateway to Innovation Conference was a huge success in St. Louis. We had over 400 participants and we would like to thank our sponsor for helping to make this event a success. We are looking forward to our conference in 2009. We will be releasing the date soon, stay tuned.