Although the responses seem to vary, the most desired levels of expertise for hiring information technology (IT) professionals are early career and mid-level with a range of 3 to 10 years of experience as of 2021. Around a third of the respondents from each specialization said that mid-level IT professionals are what they are looking for.
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