IT jobs increasing in the tech sector

May 4, 2005     Page 2 of 2

“In Canada we’re seeing more demand for sales and marketing people as opposed to technology developers,” he notes. The reason for this, Foster believes, is that Canadian companies have to worry about reaching the entire North American market and not just their own country.

“You generally aren’t going to develop products just for the Canadian marketplace, so there’s a real sales and marketing drive we’re seeing in Canada.”

The survey also found that FAST 500 CEOs were much more optimistic about the economy and their prospects this year than they were last year.

Thirty-six per cent of CEOs were extremely confident about their companies’ future growth in this year’s survey, compared to 21 per cent last year. And only two per cent cited the economy as a concern, a steep drop from 16 per cent in the 2004 survey.

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Source: IT World Canada