Five Skills to Look for in a Tight IT Market |
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many in the tech world, enterprise document management organizations suffer
from massive shortages in qualified IT personnel. Even in today's tight job
market, there just are not enough top-tier developers and database
administrators to go around.
The tech
industry has long tried to increase the number of highly trained, competent IT
professionals, but efforts still fall short. There is now a move to approach
this challenge from the other end, with more versatile, easier-to-use platforms
that empower businesses to do self-service IT work without a staff that can
afford to devote thousands of hours a year to complex programming. Companies adopting these solutions have a
source of talent they may have overlooked: the "Facebook generation" of young
professionals.
Just as
Gen Xers learned Excel macros in school and their first internships, the next
generation of professionals are graduating with HTML5 skills from school, work and
from making websites for their friends and families. Fortunately, those HTML5
skills translate into a number of document management tasks.
Make
your personnel search count
If your efforts to land the next great Java superstar have hit a standstill, and you are looking for new talent in your organization that can keep things running smoothly and efficiently, advertise and interview for young professionals who can address these 5 HTML5 skills.
Again,
it is a matter of streamlining what a worker has to know to do a job correctly. In the case of mobile, it is a matter of having someone know one HTML5 platform
well and making it compatible with just about all mobile devices, as opposed to
having to code each application in iOS, Android and the new Windows 8 platform.
Just as important, you can attach it to existing, native-application web
content to make existing web applications mobile-friendly.
Hire
along these lines, and your organization will have a better footing to stay
productive using newer software and SaaS solutions that are designed to
minimize businesses' programming time. You'll be better at mobile, too, and you
can reasonably expect your new staff's talents to only increase over time.
SANJAY BHATIA is the founder and CEO of Izenda, the market leader in embedded
business intelligence for business applications built on the Microsoft platform.
The company's cloud-optimized HTML5-powerd self-service reporting technology
provides flexible forms, ad-hoc reporting and interactive dashboards. Prior to founding Izenda, Mr. Bhatia
worked in engineering and consulting positions at Radiant Systems, Trilogy and
Microsoft. You can contact the author at sanjay@izenda.com.
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