IT SKILLS IN A TOUGH JOB MARKET.
The article identifies the most-sought IT job skills and examines the change in demand for these skills over a three-year period from April 2002 to April 2005. The IT job market is no longer in a decline. The total number of available positions has increased almost 50% since April 2002. Only a year...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 10; pp. 91 - 95 |
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