Gartner's people3 Service Empowers HR Executives To Attract And Retain IT Professionals.

people3, a Gartner Group Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB) company, launched two services that empower HR teams to attract and retain IT professionals in the challenging global IT labor market.

Gartner predicts that only seven of 10 available IT positions will be filled in 2000. The tight IT labor market, coupled with the lure of emerging "dot-com" companies, are straining HR recruiting initiatives in enterprises and organizations of all sizes. Enterprises and government agencies are reinventing their human capital management strategies to quickly identify, attract and retain IT professionals at all levels.

people3's IT Workforce Perspective and IT Workforce Strategic Review are two tools for HR executives and their recruiting teams. IT Workforce Perspective is a self-paced software tutorial that delivers IT employee performance information and IT compensation data. It was developed with value in mind for enterprises that need information to help them recruit and retain in-demand IT professionals on their own.

IT Workforce Strategic Review is a hands-on consulting engagement that delivers an HR audit, IT compensation statistics, IT HR data, and Gartner research on issues and trends presented in a customized executive briefing.

"HR executives must simultaneously reinvent and accelerate their recruiting practices to survive in this new IT marketplace," says Linda Pittenger, CEO and president of people3. "There has never been so many challenges, so much opportunity and so little time for HR executives. These HR tools deliver the intelligence needed to find and engage a winning IT team."