LABOUR MARKET TO GET TIGHTER, PREDICTS DICE.COM

The news from Dice.com is that tech tal­ent poach­ing will increase this year, accord­ing to hir­ing man­agers and recruiters.

Here’s an excerpt:

“In a recent Dice study, more than half (54%) of hir­ing man­agers and recruiters antic­i­pate that tech tal­ent poach­ing will get more aggres­sive this year, while, just three per­cent of respon­dents expect a let-up. That expec­ta­tion is ampli­fied when you look at hir­ing man­agers toil­ing in the tech­nol­o­gy or con­sult­ing indus­tries, with 62 per­cent say­ing tal­ent skir­mish­es will get more aggres­sive, against one per­cent in the less aggres­sive camp.”

This lat­est report is U.S. based. In British Colum­bia, the BC Tech­nol­o­gy Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion (BCTIA) report on labour trends released last year pre­dict­ed that high-tech com­pa­nies may face a short­age of work­ers again, sim­i­lar to the sit­u­a­tion we expe­ri­enced in 2007 and 2008.

In my opin­ion, the Dice report may end up being true in cer­tain mar­kets, like Sil­i­con Val­ley. But I’d be sur­prised if there are “tal­ent skir­mish­es” across the U.S. and Cana­da. In B.C, there appears to be a steady stream of jobs, though I don’t see a short­age of work­ers occur­ring, at least in 2011.