A Crain's column Friday claims that, while metro Detroit has the jobs to grow a large tech sector, it doesn't have the talent. Yet.
Lisa Katz explains:
While the number of companies that focus solely on IT in our region is not high compared to other regions, when looking at demand for workers across industries, it is our fastest growing regional occupation cluster. In fact, based on job postings, Southeast Michigan has seen some of the fastest growth in information technology occupational demand in the nation, nearly 55 percent in five years.
While growth in regional IT occupational demand is outpacing other major national technology hubs, we are disadvantaged in the relative proportion of workers we have employed in these fields today. Of those currently working in Southeast Michigan, only 2.6% are in IT occupations, compared to 6.1% in Silicon Valley or 5.9% in Washington, D.C..
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Crain's Detroit Business
