NEW YORK — Economists at the hiring website Indeed say user data indicate that the technology job market may not be living up to some expectations about how hard it is to find workers.
Assertions that technology jobs change so fast that job seekers can’t keep up, and employer grumblings about a skills shortage, don’t match the evidence based on the company’s job seeker resumes and employment postings from 2014 through 2018, an Indeed study shows.
“While the tech labor market does face some unique challenges, the rhetoric is more dire than the reality,” economists Martha Gimbel and Tara Sinclair wrote in a report published by the Austin, Texas-based company Thursday. “Compared with recruitment in the overall economy, it has become easier for employers to find tech talent in recent years.”
Tech job seekers are actually better matched to current job opportunities in their industry than employment seekers in the broader economy. Jobs in the overall economy are changing faster than job postings for tech positions, according to the report by Gimbel, research director at Indeed’s Hiring Lab and a former Labor Department economist, and Sinclair, a senior fellow at the lab and economics professor at George Washington University.
