Amazon posted 16,100 IT jobs last year, tops in U.S.

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Computerworld - The employer with the most IT job postings last year was Amazon.com, with 16,146 ads, exceeding most other IT firms by a wide margin, according to a new report.

The three top runners-up in 2013 U.S. job postings were Accenture, at 14,240 and Deloitte, at 13,077 job ads, according to CompTIA's annual IT Industry Outlook report.

Accenture, recently hired by the U.S. government to be the new lead contractor for the troubled Healthcare.gov web site, and Deloitte, are IT services firms. Amazon recently won a contract with the CIA to develop a compute cloud. It has been hiring IT staff with security clearances.

CompTIA based the report on data from Burning Glass Technologies in Boston, which analyzes online job postings from approximately 32,000 jobs sites.

Microsoft had the fourth most IT job postings at 12,435, followed by Best Buy with 10,725 job ads, and IBM at 10,221, according to CompTIA, a trade association that also runs a professional certification program.

Best Buy's IT hiring may be due to its computer user support and Geek Squad operation, said Matthew Sigelman, the CEO of Burning Glass.

Sigelman said Best Buy's hiring also represents the growing importance of "middle skill" IT jobs, or those that don't necessarily require a bachelor's degree. Last year, Burning Glass saw about 200,000 job ads in IT that did not require a bachelor's degree, he said.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245600/Amazon_posted_16_100_IT_jobs_last_year_tops_in_U.S.

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1. Best Buy's hiring also represents the growing importance of "middle skill" IT jobs

Aka they don't know what the hell they're doing.

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2. Now ask how many were filled by American IT workers.

We'll be waiting for that answer...

I got all the way to the fourth paragraph before the compounding of lies underlying this corporate whitewash passed the line of "Why bother?".