Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Gig Work Interest in IT Security

Krautbauer sees the rising gig economy as the biggest ripple in tech’s economic workforce wave. More than one in three Americans are freelancing this year, she said, and people are increasingly make the choice to be entrepreneurs.

“The idea of being their own business is temperature normal for younger workers,” she said. “It’s a bookend of new millennials and those who are 45 plus who have been in the traditional workforce who have the entrepreneurial bug.”

CompTIA’s IT Industry Outlook 2019 counts full-time self-employed tech workers but leaves out members of the IT gig economy—people working on the side for supplementary income—but you can’t ignore the trend, according to Krautbauer. As demand for tech talent keeps labor market tight, the tens of millions of knowledge workers who fall into this category will become increasingly more visible.
More Interest in IT Security

When people aren’t asking Woods about certifications they want to know about IT security, he said. “There’s been a huge interest over the last six months in cybersecurity,” said Woods. IT security is one of the fastest-growing fields in the job market: More than 715,000 workers were employed in cybersecurity-related jobs in the United States in 2017, according to CyberSeek.

“They’ve heard about it through issues we’ve seen with credit card company breaches and they’re asking ‘How do I get in? What are the job titles? What kind of money can I make?’ and of course, ‘Where are the jobs?’” Woods said.

He points potential IT workers in two directions, first to CompTIA certifications. In IT security, where there’s a growing need for workers, half a million people have earned CompTIA Security+ certification. He also points people to CyberSeek, a resource that provides detailed, actionable data about supply and demand in the nation’s cybersecurity job market. To see where the is demand for IT security skills and how much people are making across the U.S
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