9 IT skills needed in 2012

The tightening grip frame story in recruitment in 2011 has gradually been relaxed. The technology companies are looking worker with information technology skills and rich creativity to be ready for business in the new year season.
Most large companies or small demand recruiting information technology (IT) in preparation for the project to upgrade infrastructure of the enterprise architecture as well as investment projects each put aside three years ago by the economic crisis in 2008.

Mike McBrierty, Director of Human Resources ICT Group provides human resources Eliassen Group, said so. According to Eliassen Group, nearly 29% of 353 CIOs participated in the survey said the group planned to hire more in the summer, up from 23% by 2010 and 20 % of 2009.

The results of Eliassen Group research also suggests that the director of information technology (CIO) will give priority to staff creativity. They're not only green light for the creation of the human resources available, but also look for new talent for research division, creation of enterprises.Therefore, the priority of the skills needed to staff the IT industry in 2012 has changed.

Programming and application development

There are 61% of CIOs said 353 people would need to be able to program and develop applications in the next 12 months, up from 44% in 2010.

A percentage soared so do chief executive (CEO) John Reed of Robert Half Technology Co. surprised. The CEO said that demand for these skills to many different areas, from web development to upgrade the local network and serve the needs of new applications for use of equipment mobile, is increasing. In it, Mr. John Reed emphasized the role of IT staff is to develop the company website so that the god client site once and then want to come back next time. To do this, programmers and web development knowledge must also be knowledgeable about mobile technology to improve access to customer content via smartphones.

Randy Bankers, director of IT cooperation in Lehigh Valley Health Network - health care system related college in Allentown (USA) - also said the array of software development mobile applications in the field of care health particularly hot. The company itself is trying to find skilled IT workers in the field of mobile technology.

Also appreciate the development of mobile technology, Bill Predmore, Director of enterprise applications support the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Austin, stressed that the industry is to transport the mobile applications, such as applications to organize data, sort of intelligent routing and schedules for buses, trains and provides this content via smartphones.

Project Management

Approximately 44% CIO promises to recruit skilled project management in the coming year, up from 43% in 2010.

The major projects to managers, but managers are capable of a business analyst. According to CEO John Reed, who has the ability to understand the needs of users and delivering it to the IT staff, enabling them to complete projects on schedule. "The demand for search and business analysts to project managers will find the rent is higher than the project managers pure as the previous year," Reed said. In other words who have the potential to project favorable than those who work to monitor the overall project and supervising staff.

Technical Support

In the last year, about 35% of companies will hire these skilled workers, down from 43% in 2010.

As far as IT is used in the company, the person doing the technical support of land still live. And in an organization like Lehigh Valley Health Network, technical support is considered the first working position for IT professionals new to the profession, where they can learn a great deal of experience to the position work at higher levels later.

However, CEO David Foote of human resources consulting firm Foote Partners IT industry recommendations, the status of a growing number of new mobile operating system will place greater demands on technical skills to support each the work of enterprises operating in this new mobile platform.

Enterprise Networks

There are 35% of CIOs said they would hire the skilled workers of the enterprise network (networking) in 12 months, down from 38% in 2010.

The company's CEO John Reed said Robert Half Technology, the IT professionals with networking skills will continue to be employed with high rates and last for many more quarters, especially those with skills in the virtualization environment. Employers are seeking people with practical experience in the enterprise network, especially if they work in organizations have used virtualization environments or cloud computing as the VMware and Citrix, according to CEO John Reed.Architecture business intelligence (BI)

Approximately 23% of CIOs said it will hire personnel skilled in intelligent enterprise architecture for next year, up from 13% in 2010.

According to survey results of Eliassen Group companies, investment demand for enterprise architecture infrastructure that businesses have to add human resources to the task array this BI.Everyone knows when the economic crisis took place three years ago, a series of planned upgrades and investment infrastructures of enterprises were forced to leave behind. Now is the time they began to focus investment in infrastructures, such as pouring money to support technology access data in real time and support solutions for making better business decisions .

This can be seen at Lorillard Tobacco Company soon, Dan Clark, managing director of desktop and server technologies, said. Company worth six billion dollars is expected to expand the use of Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration software with the number of users from 175 up to 2000 people.Clark said the plan would require hiring additional staff supervision and development and give priority to those who are able to SharePoint development.

Data Center

In the next year, with 18% of CIOs said it will hire staff to work for the data center, down from 21% in 2010.

Like the enterprise network, the operation of data centers next year will be much impact from the strategic virtualization and cloud computing business organizations. Specifically, the employer will seek IT professionals with the background knowledge of the organization and operation of data centers and systems integration.

Additionally, data needs are always ready to ensure IT services are guaranteed emphasis on skills needs of disaster recovery and business combination, according to Bob Cuneo, Eliassen Group's CIO. Companies need to make sure that the system should be backed up and replicated.

Web 2.0

Although not significant, but the percentage of employment in an array of skills requiring increased 1% compared with the results of the survey in 2010, up 18%.

The technical skills to focus on social media because more and more enterprises want to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into their infrastructure, and John Reed thought that this demand will increase in 2012. More than anyone, understand the business attractive to customers through the online platform, and the IT staff the ability to support these standards will become more brilliant in the new year.

Privacy

Eliassen Group noted the large difference in the recruitment information for the array of security with 17% in the survey compared to 32% by 2010.

The percentage of new recruits decreased, but security remains a top priority issue of the business, particularly in businesses that see the cloud as part of their IT strategy.

Peissig Corey, senior vice president of technology at Mortgagebot, a provider of software that runs on the web, saying that security is a top priority issue in his company and the center was very difficult to find see the array of talent in this job.

Telecommunications

Approximately 9% of employers said a recruitment plan for the telecommunications industry in the next 12 months, down 17% from last survey in 2010.

Laurie Connors, HR managers responsible for IT staff at Partners HealthCare, is headquartered in Boston, and also manages the Massachusetts General Hospital General Hospital, said it was necessary to upgrade information systems, particularly VoIP technology. This is why the Partners HealthCare will look for experts in the telecommunications industry in years to come, those who have the knowledge and skills to establish and manage communications system or IP phone system worked Cisco IPCC Call Center.

Despite many concerns about the U.S. economy next year, the predictions from the results of statistical work in the IT industry's Computerworld has pointed out that the budget for the recruitment of new personnel has been the first more investment.