| 1 | During this tough time I think the most important thing is to think out of the box. Look at the organization you work in and see how you can bring value to the organization. Get out of the regular day to day activities you might get used to and get out there and make some things happen; be innovative, not afraid to learn something new, and push yourself just a little bit more. |
| 2 | Stay current. |
| 3 | Networking |
| 4 | Stay on top of skills |
| 5 | continue to obtain knowledge |
| 6 | Go into management. As a laid off worker companies are wanted the working staff to be able to be the manager and the worker bee. They are asking for 8-10 yrs experience minimal. They are consistently looking for managers. |
| 7 | bleach their skin and change their name, address, and body so that they can transform into a white person. The one thing that technology workers and job seekers must do in order to successfully advance their careers in 2010 is to overcome discrimination and racism. |
| 8 | change out of IT |
| 9 | NETWORK |
| 10 | non tech |
| 11 | continue to update your skills often and stay rooted in the current industry technology |
| 12 | reduce h1B |
| 13 | Networking. We must network and mentor each other during these times. We do not do that enough amongst each other and we can miss opportunities. |
| 14 | Become a jack of all trades. Be able to learn and use new tech that will benefit the corporate bottom line. |
| 15 | keep learning |
| 16 | Find an inside connection. |
| 17 | Get overall understanding of the needs of their organization. Behave as a generalist; get more business education; acquire a mentor with 'real' power and political pull within your company. |
| 18 | Continually retool. |
| 19 | Continuing education and training. |
| 20 | Be multifunctional. The era of the one trick poney is over. |
| 21 | eliminate H-1B program |
| 22 | Diversify their skill sets |
| 23 | Keep learnning new technology |
| 24 | Be educated on the current application trends and one way to do this is to go back to school and take a class. |
| 25 | Aggressive training and development |
| 26 | Keep updating their skills |
| 27 | Improve technical skills. |
| 28 | Upgrade technical skills - start looking into Linux and open source |
| 29 | Keep current and keep adding to there IT toolbox the skills to be a diverse IT person. It's not enough to be just a programmer, you have to be a programmer, DBA, systems ad, network manager, and security specialist. |
| 30 | Educate and certify their skills |
| 31 | Stay current |
| 32 | more education in various current technologies |
| 33 | Stay up to date with their skills. |
| 34 | Show value they bring to an organization. Value that cannot be sourced externally. |
| 35 | Increase their skills |
| 36 | The ability to rub people the right way, not the wrong way. Making friends on the job so you have a big reference/referral network. |
| 37 | Become more business focused and determine to how to meet / exceed customer expectations. In regards to customer IT must become more knowledgeable (understanding their objectives, issues, and opportunities and why) with near immediate customer, the business users, the core business and its purpose, the companies value chain, and the companies extended supply chain and all its surrounding dynamics |
| 38 | Sell your self |
| 39 | Continuing Education, keep getting certifications and study to become more diverse with your background and IT skills. |
| 40 | They must go back and take classes for the newest technology. |
| 41 | Get out of IT. |
| 42 | Lobby against H1-B visas. |
| 43 | have both a degree an certification |
| 44 | Get continuous (quarterly, monthly - period not less than 30 days no more than 90 days) FEEDBACK on your performance. |
| 45 | Continue Education and Certification. |
| 46 | Assess their skill sets and upgrade as needed...scratch that- NETWORK, NETWORK, NETWORK!!!! |
| 47 | Be aware of what is going on in our industry as it relates to their area of focus in IT |
| 48 | Keeping up with the changing technology wanted by some many companies. |
| 49 | Balance excellent technical skills with soft skills. |
| 50 | IT really depends on the individuals skills. For technology workers, they need to keep on top of new technology. For job seekers like myself, don't have a closed mind, try to keep entry level position into the IT industry and take it from there. |
| 51 | Continue to skills updated and fresh, don't pigeon hole yourself into a role or particular technology. |
| 52 | Enhance their skills to become marketable |
| 53 | Get certified |
| 54 | Know somebody who can get them in the door. |
| 55 | network, network, network...join and be active in various associations and contribute to or create blogs |
| 56 | Continue to update skills |
| 57 | Continuing with education |
| 58 | Practice their skills |
| 59 | keep employed |
| 60 | obtain a master degree since its becoming stay on top of technology changes |
| 61 | Get required training! |
| 62 | Network with other IT professionals |
| 63 | keep adding to their job knowledge not only in their field but learn new things also |
| 64 | Learn latest technologies |
| 65 | Manage their own carrers. |
| 66 | Good question. Keep abreast of skills and align oneself with an company that is not totally offshoring. |
| 67 | REmain current and add new skills every two years |
| 68 | Create grassroots campaigns and support change to lobby Congress to help stimulate and protect IT jobs. |
| 69 | Networking and continue education |
| 70 | Start a business of their own on the side. If it starts to get successful, then leave employment. |
| 71 | realize that technology controls them. Not! the other way. |
| 72 | Continue to learn new technologies and keep their skills updated. |
| 73 | Stay abreast of the latest trends and technologies and translate into innovative solutions |
| 74 | Become more independent -- corporate institutions are NOT your friend(s)... |
| 75 | Network with other IT professionals |
| 76 | Network |
| 77 | Stay up to date with training/whitepapers. Also identify key skills in technology such as SAN and scripting. |
| 78 | Learn everything under the sun to get a "decent" job... sadly. |
| 79 | Get out of IT. I'm doing it. A hobby is not a career. |
| 80 | Continue to grow and evolve in the industry as it pertains to educational opportunities and networking with others in the industry. |
| 81 | explain their value in business terms |
| 82 | Retrain |
| 83 | Update skills and get certifited in them |
| 84 | Network |
| 85 | Put an end to cheap foreign labor off-shoring and in-shoring practices. |
| 86 | Understand how disruptive technologies like Cloud, Virtualization, Storage, and Converged Networks are taking hold in the industry quickly. This IS the leading edge and where the new opportunities will be. Understanding how to deploy and secure these new platforms is key. |
| 87 | Continue, Continue to study new fields and niche technologies quickly. This knowledge isn't gained in most colleges or specialty technology schools yet because it's new. Still these schools do provide value because the foundation of technical knowledge must be gain intially via traditional higher education. One can usually find documentation on all technologies on the internet and in some text textbooks copyrighted within the last year or so. Then position yourself as an expert based initially solely on documentation/working/textbook knowledge factoring in actual experience apocryphally. In addition, executive recruiters must support this premise and stretch themselves to think outside of the box also. I would recommend seeking consultant positions rather the full time employment intially to optain experience and get hired quickly so as not to get discouraged. Individuals need a strategy for competitive advantages similiar to how companies compete against one another. For example today, Sharepoint is increasing in popularity, therefore one could study everything about Sharepoint, install it on one's laptop, learn how to customize it, program in it, etc,etc. Once a person is proficient and can do the job if hired he'll succeed because he or she is not speaking in a interview saying give me an opportunity and I'll learn and do a good job. Employers aren't so interested in you learning but now we are in a era of doing! The critical mistake one makes is become a expert in one technology and think this will continue to provide a good paying job for himself without expanding to learning new languages, environments, etc. Don't pigeon hole oneself into this mythical thinking. Lazyiness and complicatency will get you nothing in this life, continue to learn and evolve. History teaches us by studying the Dodo bird. Think about these statements I often here and you be the judge. "I've been doing mainframe programming for many years, and I'm a die heart mainframe programmer" "Many Cobol programmers are dying or retiring, therefore the old systems will eventually need programmers and I'm waiting and then I'll get a job" |
| 88 | Keep up with trends. |
| 89 | move to another country, sad but true |
| 90 | Find jobs first if possible |