The document discusses trends in the IT job market based on a presentation by John Barry from ITech Consulting Partners. It finds that more employers plan to hire in 2011 compared to 2010, especially in technology and revenue roles. Popular skills include mobile development, web design, software engineering, and specializations like Oracle, SAP, and project management. The document recommends pursuing relevant certification along with hands-on experience. It provides tips for job searching using boards, LinkedIn, networking, and working with recruiters.

1. Jobs in IT Trends in the Employment Market

2. Finding a JobPresented by John Barry, PresidentITech Consulting Partners

3. Trends in the Employment MarketAccording to Careerbuilder’s 2011 Job Forecast:More employers plan to add full-time, permanent headcount in 2011 compared to 2010 with a continued emphasis on hiring in technology and revenue-producing fields.

4. Trends in the Employment MarketTop five functional areas for recruitment : 1) Sales – 27 percent2) Information Technology – 26 percent3) Customer Service – 25 percent4) Engineering – 21 percent5) Technology – 19 percent

5. Trends in the Employment MarketTrends in ITech’s New Placements : Comparison from 2007 to 2010Market improvement in 2010

6. Increase in permanent positions vis-à-vis contracts

7. Companies exercised contract-to-hire optionsTrends in the Employment MarketTrends in ITech’s New PlacementsYear

8. Trends in ITech’s PlacementsTrends in ITech’s New Placements

9. Trends in the Employment MarketJob trends Mobile developers, Web designers and software engineers

10. IS Security

11. Business Intelligence

12. ERP (SAP, Oracle Applications, JD Edwards)

13. Formal SDLC methodologiesTrends in the Employment MarketNiche Jobs / SkillsSome companies have a preference for experience in their specific industry (e.g., healthcare, financial, pharmaceutical)

14. Industry-based regulations

15. FDA/Pharmaceutical: 21 CFR

16. Financial: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx), BASEL

17. Healthcare: HIPAATrends in the Employment MarketNiche Jobs / SkillsAccording to a Dice survey, despite a soft job market and high unemployment rate, IT organizations still experience difficulty in finding qualified candidates with hot skills such as Oracle, SAP, service-oriented architecture (SOA), project management, Microsoft .NET, virtualization and SharePoint.

18. Some jobs require a special combination of skills and/or product-related certification. Trends in the Employment MarketSome examples of Skills SetJava/J2EE (plus JSF, AJAX, SOAP, Hibernate, Maven, SOA. JDBC)

19. Enterprise Security Architect with Certification or experience with TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, COBIT, ITIL or Gartner Framework

20. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (E1) Financials with multi-currency

21. JDE OneWorld v B7332 or B3317

22. Oracle Financials Techno-Functional (plus iPro + JDeveloper)