Why is the i.c.stars Technology Human Resource Solution a better option?
The United States is facing a technology labor crisis that threatens the growth of the Internet Industry and weakens our position as the world technology market maker. The Department of Labor calls the labor shortage in the Technology Industry “America’s new deficit” and projects the United States will need 1.3 million more computer scientists, engineers, systems analysts, and computer programmers by 2006. To combat the shortage, the Internet Industry has placed a distress signal to the public in hopes that government, public school systems, and higher education will be able to develop creative, long-term solutions. Institutional bureaucracy has stifled the development of any such program. i.c.stars, a private not-for-profit, has answered this call by developing an innovative human resource solution that is market responsive, cost effective and socially responsible. Free from public sector constraints, i.c.stars created a community-industry brokerage that seamlessly connects inner city
