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  • Paper: STEM skills gap modest among IT help desk workers

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    The incidence of prolonged hiring difficulties for information technology help desk workers, one of the largest computer occupations in the U.S., is modest, with only 11%-15% of IT help desks showing vacancy patterns that might be consistent with persistent hiring frictions, according to new research from Andrew Weaver, a professor of labor and employment relations at Illinois.

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  • Editor’s notes: To contact Andrew Weaver, call 217-265-5087; email aweaver5@illinois.edu.

    The paper “Who has trouble hiring? Evidence from a national IT survey” is available online.

    DOI: 10.1177/0019793920985261