US IT employment falls, hiring may be stalled for months

IT employment in the U.S. dropped in November after months of bucking national employment trends in other industries, said the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB). However, IT recruiting site Dice.com, in a survey released this week, found that most tech-job recruiters and hiring managers are curtailing hiring plans for the next six months. The Dice survey, which received responses from more than 1,000 hiring managers and recruiters, found that 32 percent of respondents said they are substantially scaling back hiring plans during the next six months, and another 40 percent are slightly scaling back hiring plans.