Our computer analysts, who are prized by our companies, are now recruited by telecommuting by foreign firms, which are not afraid to take out their portfolios to attract the most talented graduates.

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“The placement rate is really excellent. People are snapping up computer scientists in the job market. There is fierce competition,” says Éric Beaudry, a professor in the computer science department at UQAM for 10 years.

Foreign competition

“There are foreign companies recruiting from home. It changes things a bit,” he adds.

Today, a computer analyst can earn from $26 an hour to $58.78 an hour, according to Emploi-Québec, which calculated the average from 2019 to 2021.

Mobile robotics, games, smart tutorials, space exploration, defense... the needs are everywhere, underlines the professor who teaches the structure of data and algorithms and the introduction to artificial intelligence.

“It’s new with the pandemic because before there was resistance to telework. Now, we have proof that it works,” continues Éric Beaudry, who sees foreign firms with a long arm in recruitment.

For Carl-Elliott Bilodeau-Savaria, a bachelor's degree student in computer science at UQAM, computer science is a way to follow in his father's footsteps.

"My father did a bachelor's degree in computer science, and since I was little, I wanted to do the same," shares the student.

"He founded his own company and has been working in it for twenty years," concludes the man who also wants to start his own SME.

–With the collaboration of Charles Mathieu