Good news on the local job market: Central Ohio has plenty of IT and high tech jobs right now.

Good news on the local job market: Central Ohio has plenty of IT and high tech jobs right now.

The bad news? There aren’t enough workers to fill those jobs.

I talked to executives at Tek Systems which is the largest placement firm in America for high tech jobs.

Tek has offices worldwide and its Columbus office is the biggest one in Ohio.

They help staff positions in a wide range of jobs from call center employees, software engineers, project managers and consultants.

These are good paying jobs too; Tek Systems told some bump up beyond $100,000 a year and the company also said 95 percent of the available jobs are full time.

So why can’t we fill all of them? Evidently, the field of high tech is changing so fast, the training of workers isn’t keeping up with the pace of expanding technology.