Receive posts by emailIs your IT staff leaving for new IT career opportunities?
Results of a recent survey (The Technology Industry Survey 20112) found that one in five IT employees are likely to leave their current employer next year for more interesting projects and/or career opportunities. 80% believe a job change is necessary to progress their career according to the survey findings.
In addition, about 40% of the 650 IT professionals who responded stated that they are planning on having a new job within the next 12 months. For those in technical roles, the number hoping to have a new job rises to almost two-thirds.
Here are some startling findings from the survey:
- 100% of database administrators are looking to leave their current roles.
- More than 90% of CIOs and CTOs, testers, architects and designers believe they have to move to companies to further their careers.
- Over 80% of respondents want more interesting projects to work on.
- 71% want open, honest and consistent communications from the IT organization (especially around offshoring).
As an employer, what are you doing now to ensure your top IT professionals are satisfied with their current roles and projects, and confident that they have the opportunity to grow within your company? Considering time to hire top talent has increased quite significantly in the past two quarters of 2011 (Agile will be releasing its Q3 Market Pulse report later next week with more details regarding days to fill IT job openings), and workers with high-demand skills are increasingly scarce, companies must find new and innovative approaches to retain their IT staff. Agile has blogged extensively on ways employers can retain top talent, and we invite you to review past blogs including this one.
You can also read our free white paper “Four Winning Talent Strategies for the New IT” that includes effective and realistic approaches to not only hiring top talent, but retaining those employees as well.
