Mary Brandel

In these times of budget cuts and layoffs recasting your value to the corporation might be the best strategy to leap a level up. This first installment of a series of career-building strategies will tell you how

Employees with a high degree of left-brain intelligence, which is common among IT professionals, can be demanding, blind to the opinions of others, easily bored and bent on being "right." Follow these dos and don'ts

Crowdourcing can help drive product strategies, but it can be a dangerous tool

While it's become fairly straightforward to buy energy-efficient PCs and reduce the electrical load of the data centre, there's nothing simple about tackling the full gamut of environmental issues

High-tech consumer products and services of all kinds are making their way into the workplace. They include everything from smart phones, voice-over-IP systems and flash memory sticks to virtual online worlds. And as people grow more accustomed to having their own personal technology at their beck and call, the line between what they use for work and what they use for recreation is blurring.

High-tech consumer products and services of all kinds are making their way into the workplace. They include everything from smart phones, voice-over-IP systems and flash memory sticks to virtual online worlds. And as people grow more accustomed to having their own personal technology at their beck and call -- and in fact can't imagine functioning without it -- the line between what they use for work and what they use for recreation is blurring.

IT World Canada's 2007 Labour Market and Salary Survey reveals that 61% of responding companies expect to hire new staff. Overall, the survey results show a demand for 12% growth in IT staffing levels in 2007, in Canada. So, the IT job market is hot, but only if you have the right skills. If you want to be part of the wave, take a look at what eight experts -- including recruiters, curriculum developers, computer science professors and other industry observers -- say are the hottest skills of the near future.

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