St Louis CIO's Plan On Hiring in 2009

From a recruiter at Apex Systems that submitted an article On LinkedIn he read on MarketWatch reporting on a Robert Half survey (got all that?), it seems that St Louis CIO's are bullish, or at least not timid about hiring in the first quarter.

A net 11 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the St. Louis area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the first quarter of 2009, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report. Thirteen percent of executives surveyed plan to add staff during the quarter and 2 percent anticipate reductions in personnel. The net 11 percent increase is down one point from the area's fourth-quarter 2008 forecast but three points above the national average.

It's not everyone, and it would be interesting to see if this were small business or large corporations doing the hiring, but it's good news for InBev employees in the tech sector.

For more on St Louis information technology hiring, be sure to check out the RCGA's Greater St Louis Works.