Essential skills to save your IT Job

The need to update your knowledge and learn new skills has always been there. The current economic slowdown has only sharpened this need, especially in the IT industry. In this story,

we look at over a hundred IT-related skill areas and analyze for you whether you need to learn any new skills, in what areas, and how

• Essential skills to save your IT Job

• What skills can you acquire?
  
  
  
  First know where your job fits in the matrix described below. Then see which other area you can move to

• Should you re-skill? How?
  
  
  
  Is your current IT knowledge–technology or language–enough, especially in today’s economic scenario?

• Network professionals: Secure
  
  
  
  Network administrators and IT support staff needn’t be too worried, as companies continue to need staff to keep their 
  
  
  existing IT infrastructure running
  

• IT-enabled services: Mixed fortunes
  
  
  
  The job scenario for those in this profession is currently hot, but it’s too early to comment on the future because this is a new area

• IT Jobs: Steady or down?
  
  
  
  Recruitments in the IT industry have taken a plunge. How have the different areas been affected?

• The fittest programmer to survive
  
  
  
  As software professionals you’ve been hit the hardest by the slowdown. What can you do?

• Content no longer King
  
  
  
  Some areas of content creation and management are worse hit that others. What are the prospects for both?

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