Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Transferable skills for IT pros: Change your job

From Computerworld, January 8, 2009...

IT professionals who find themselves out of work amid the global economic recession could wind up working as stock equity analysts, insurance underwriters or health care administrators, according to an author of a recent book on alternative technology career paths.

A former IT executive with companies such as GE and IBM, Janice Weinberg offers 20 different options for IT managers and CIOs who want to change gears in Debugging Your Information Technology Career, published by Elegant Fix Press.

Each chapter also includes a "recession resistance" piece that examines how vulnerable various jobs are to economic downturns and what executives can do to ride out the bad times.

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