Global Information Technology
ISSUE
07
JobPrep
July 2012
The Voice of Career Insight
Six Unexpected Uses for your iPad
In this issue How to Prepare for the coming Revolution P.1-P.2
You already know you can
Six Unexpected Uses for your iPad P.1/P.3
surf the Web from a beach
The I.T. Industry’s Dos and Don’ts P.2
chair, watch TV on airplanes, record audio in any setting or teleconference from the 19th hole
clubhouse
at
the
golf
course. Millions of people world-
How to prepare for the coming IT skills revolution!
wide are playing games, read-
Call it the tech industry's version of a rid-
ing, sending email or doodling
dle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma:
Most portentous, though, is that the
on the iPad's 9.7-inch screen.
Businesses have job openings, but IT pro-
gap, whatever its true nature, is rapidly
Here are a few of the other uses
fessionals are struggling to land jobs or
becoming a yawning chasm -- one that
for tablets that you may not
move to better ones.
IT employees will have to cross sooner
have explored yet, starting with
What phenomenon could knock the hal-
share responsibility for the gap, they say.
rather than later. Many hiring experts, IT
tools that could make or save
lowed laws of supply and demand off-
managers and CIOs believe that the tech
you money, and ending with
kilter? Two words: "skills gap."
employment landscape will be radically
some
random
and
creative
ideas.
It seems as though tales of this alleged IT skills gap have become especially common
1) Start a business: Gone are
during the past six months. As the story goes, employ-
and ringing up purchases on
ers are desperate to find
100-pound cash registers. With
people with expertise in hot
a small piece of peripheral hard-
areas like mobile app de-
ware and an iPad app called
velopment, cloud compu-
Square, you can set up a mer-
ting and business analyt-
chandise table or street food
ics, while employees, ex-
stand or mobile design business
hausted from staff reductions and in-
that
creased workloads, wonder what more they
credit
and
debit
cards.
must to do to keep current.
2) Get to work: Tablet apps
and more companies outsource IT oper-
What phenomenon could knock the hallowed laws of supply and demand offkilter? Two words: "skills gap."
the days of renting shopfronts
takes
different five years from now as more
It's a tragic tale -- but not completely ac-
ations to service providers, perhaps offshore, or move traditional IT jobs to other business units. In the face of such rapid change, it's becoming clear that the one skill every member of the IT work-
force needs is career management. "Everybody is a free agent, navigating the corporate chaos," says Todd Weinman, president of The Weinman Group,
span industries and professions.
curate, according to some tech-
an executive search firm headquartered
Doctors can find tools for keep-
employment experts. The situation is more
in Oakland, Calif., that specializes in au-
ing electronic health records
nuanced than what can be captured in a
dit and corporate govern-
and
headline, and both workers and employers
ance. In the IT job market,
data
management,
like
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