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Building the Perfect IT Person

Technology certifications matter. Or maybe they don’t. Pay is up for IT workers, but many haven’t recovered the wages that typified the late ’90s. There aren’t enough computer science majors in the United States, but the jobs held by the ones we do have here could be outsourced. Corporations want M.B.A. technology managers, but there are shortages of specialized technology skills. Meanwhile, the image of the profession is in the dumps.

Those rip-and-read headlines culled from eweek.com over the last month paint a confusing picture. Pick a survey—for example, an Aug. 2 compensation study released by Foote Partners, an IT research company in New Canaan, Conn. Wait a few days, and there’s bound to be another take on the technology work force that will pop up to counter it.

Why the confusion? Technology and business are changing as they grapple with outsourcing and lick their wounds from the tech boom. IT jobs can easily be outsourced. The truth is that IT is just not valued that highly by the people in charge—rather, it’s still being viewed as a cost center by many companies that focus more on business.

By Deborah Rothberg

Full Story: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2002881,00.asp?kc=EWEWEMNL081406EPW6A1

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