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Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Most IT headhunters agree that the demand for project managers is consistently strong and will remain so. Yet there is an even greater demand for program managers. It’s particularly strong among financial services companies, which include banks, brokerage houses and insurance companies. Government and nonprofit organizations are also hiring program managers.
Stephanie Wyse, a recruiter at Technical Staffing firm Apex Systems Inc., in Chicago, says many local companies are developing and promoting program managers from within because of the complexity of their jobs and the difficulty of finding candidates who are experts in one industry.
But on a national level, it’s a much different picture, according to Eric Dickerson, a partner at staffing firm Kaye Bassman in Plano, Texas. Dickerson heads the firm’s technical practice.
“Program managers have always played essential roles in large organizations, especially as part of technology companies’ development teams,” he says. “But it’s only in the last few years that they’re getting some well-deserved recognition. That’s because corporate IT projects have ascended to multilevel behemoths requiring a higher level of technical and managerial expertise.”
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