Hot Tech Skills For 2006?

linumax writes "Computerworld is running a 3 page story on what tech skills will be in demand for the coming year. They suggest developers, security experts and project managers are in demand. It also comes up with some good news. FTA: 'Despite the notion that hordes of U.S. IT jobs are being sent offshore, in reality, less than 5% of the 10 million people who make up the U.S. IT job market had been displaced by foreign workers through 2004, says Scot Melland, president and CEO of Dice Inc., a New York-based online jobs service. The numbers of jobs posted on Dice.com from January through September for developers, project managers and help desk technicians rose 40%, 47% and 45%, respectively, compared with the same period in 2004, says Melland.'"

Comments

Currently Seeking

[Anonymous Coward]

- 10 years AJAX/Web 2.0 development
  - 5 years Ruby on Rails development
  - Microsoft Windows IIS 6.0 security and administration certification

Re:Currently Seeking

[MBGMorden]

You forgot the combos man. Experience with all the stuff seperately gets you nothing.

Also required:

17 years experience developing Java applications that interface with a high availability MySQL database that imports data from a Commodore 64 system, converts all the data to PNG image format and then OCR's it back into text to be stored into an Oracle 9.3.4.1a database running on a FreeBSD 4.11 system that has Postfix & Apache installed but is not running Bind.

5 years experience required on WeMadeThisProgramInhouse 2.0

Applicants without these requirements will not be considered.

The hot languages for 2006

[Anonymous Coward]

Hindi
Bengali
Russian
Ukrainian
Hungarian
Mandarin
Czech

Re:The hot languages for 2006

[swordfish666]

If the above post is being read in a country other then the USA, the list should just be English.

To summarise then..

[onion2k]

"In 2006 we'll be wanting qualified people with relevant experience."

It take a certain kind of recruitment consultant to figure out these gems..

Re:The most important skill

[Dunbal]

I would pay less than minimum wage if I could ... because it forces workers to become more efficient

      So if I don't pay my workers ANYTHING, and promise to give them a huge bonus if they finish the job, they will be perfectly efficient?

      Tell me something, you don't happen to be a manager at EA do you?

Re:Missed an important need

[SolitaryMan]

By 1998 desktops will have 4 core processors

Trust me, they won't! And in 2000 Bush Jr. will be elected.

That's easy

[sd_diamond]

1. Flying car repair & maintenance
2. Personal Spacecraft repair & maintenance
3. Portable Fusion Power Cell design & maintenance
4. Servant Android Programmer
5. Malfunctioning Servant Android Therapist
6. Soldiers to fight Servant Android Rebellion

Re:huh.?

[roman_mir]

Must be able to prepare COBRA solutions, knows Sun's Cafe Latte, an expert in Microsoft J2EE with 15 years of experience minimum. Yep. Only experts work here.

Re:My surefire job-seeking strategy

[VAXcat]

Yer laffin', but one of my pals at work swears he got hired at a big company to do a Powerbuilder application. He didn't know anything about it, but he figured he could fake it until he picked it up from his coworkers on the project. Turns out, that the other 7 people hired to do the project had done the same thing! Needless to say, this project was not on time, or written very well...