JobPrep July 2012

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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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