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The Five Biggest Worries Facing IT Pros

The Five Biggest Worries Facing IT Pros
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Aug 29, 2007
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The Five Biggest Worries Facing IT Pros

The Five Biggest Worries Facing IT Pros

by Deb Perelman; illustrated by Brian Moore


The Five Biggest Worries Facing IT Pros – Offshoring Is Not Going Away

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No matter how many widely read stories crop up in which CIOs confess outsourcing didnt work for me, the trend toward the commoditizing of IT and development work, and sending it overseas to save money, shows little sign of abating. Who is n


The Five Biggest Worries Facing IT Pros – IT Shortage? Depends on What You Do

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Is there a shortage of IT professionals? Is there not? It depends on who you talk to. Yet if you speak to enough people, one message becomes clear: There is a shortage, but its of workers with the most highly sought-after skill sets. Everyone else is hav


The Five Biggest Worries Facing IT Pros – A Recession May Be Looming

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Just about every person not living under a rock has watched the writing appearing on the walls: Housing prices are falling into a crisis zone. The credit market is collapsing. The Fed even cut the discount rate. It could only be a matter of time before th


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The Five Biggest Worries Facing IT Pros – Jobs Are Getting Harder

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As user technology advances by leaps and bounds, logic stands that this would make the jobs of IT professionals easier as well. In reality, this is not the case: For IT pros, its really more security risks, more demands on their time and more to worry ab


The Five Biggest Worries Facing IT Pros – The Shine Is Off the Apple

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If the dot-com bust was the first nail in the IT work forces coffin and offshore outsourcing the second, the decline in student enrollments in computer science programs and a dearth of qualified candidates in specific skill areas may just be the last. Wo


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