Donohue's Article Review: The Hottest Skills for 2007 Part 1

This review is designed for those in the School of Technology: taken from http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=275066&source=NLTCAR&nlid=5

With fewer openings this year, expect these five premium skills to win the jobs ...

As agreed upon by many IT firms, there is a demand for IT personnel who are well-rounded in both technical and business applications. This requires employers to create a new and higher standard for the quality of employees they are hiring. Under these conditions, the quantity of hires in 2007 will take a slight cut. There will still be the same amount of applicants; however, there will no longer be the same number of openings. The competition for an IT staffing, whether for administrative or entry-level positions, is going to be higher than ever before. This signifies that only the true ‘Renaissance Men’ of IT will be the ones that will become the new IT professionals. IT professionals in the past have been more or less focused on programming only. It is stressed in this new age of competition and technology, that programmers widen their range of ‘know how’. Business and communication skills will benefit future applicants in the field of information technology, even to the extreme of whether or not they will be employed.