3 The Opportunity Ahead: A Call to Action for American Skills and Jobs Turning to the sector view, the need for IT workers spans all sectors of the economy, and non-IT 56 industries currently employ two-thirds of private sector IT workers. IT workers in jobs exist in a broad range of industry sectors, with manufacturing being the second largest. The industries experiencing the most rapid growth in IT jobs are outside of the IT sector – the demand for IT workers 57 in retail and health care sectors nearly doubled in 2012 alone. Fastest growing IT jobs by sector, 2012 There is also an opportunity to increase the diversity of the IT workforce, with several major employers recognizing the need to take important steps to 58 improve diversity. BLS estimates that 26 percent of workers in computer and mathematical occupations are female, while African-Americans constitute 8 percent and Hispanics constitute 6 percent of this 59 workforce. Each group is underrepresented, offering SOURCE: Burning Glass Technologies substantial room to widen the IT talent pipeline. These issues persist not only in IT, but across the entire STEM talent pool, where women and minorities “now constitute approximately 70 percent of college students while being underrepresented among students who receive undergraduate STEM degrees (approximately 45 60 percent).” 56 CEB TalentNeuron research and analysis, crawling of public profiles, skill predictor algorithms, CEB TalentNeuron Skill Taxonomy & SME Interviews. CEB, 2013. Unpublsihed 57 “Software Is Everywhere: Growth in Software Jobs,” Burning Glass Technologies (July 2013). 58 “Getting to work on diversity at Google,” Google Official Blog (May 2014). 59 “Current Population Survey,” Bureau of Labor Statistics. 60 “Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics,” President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) (February 2012). 73