Once again a few odds and ends, mostly odds, about what’s been going on in the job-search world since I’ve been blogging here at Talent-Centric. This time the emphasis is on Information Technology news that did not quite deserve a post of its own.
1. Apple’s Steve Jobs Not Time’s Person of the Year
This has been a strange year for awards. First a president waging two foreign wars wins the Nobel Peace Prize, then Ben Bernacke is named Time’s Person of the Year. But at least Steve Jobs was a finalist this year. Had Jobs won it would not be a first for people working in information technology. In 2006 You, meaning everyone providing internet content, were Person of the Year. Andrew Grove of Intel won the dubious title in 1997, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com in 1999. Pretty pathetic for an era dominated by information technology.
2. An IT Job with Growing Demand and a Cool Title
As long as the internet and information technology keep opening up new doors to information and ways to process and move it, government agencies and private enterprises will have to pay IT professionals to protect that information. To help protect the world from cybercrime you have to know your stuff, of course, but you’ll also need to jump through all sorts of security clearance hoops.
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