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The 10 Technologies that Will Help You Stay Employed
Keeping up with key technologies is the best thing you can do to give yourself an edge in the employment market now—and in the future. Are you at least semi-proficient with all 10 of the technologies on our list?
by A. Russell Jones, Executive Editor
December 11, 2002
don't know anything about your specific job. I don't know whether you're in danger of losing it, if you're a guru in some niche technology and therefore indispensable, or if your company is so staid that your present skills will be sufficient for the rest of your tenure there. So please hang onto those letters telling me that your company is perfectly happy with VB3 or that you'll never ever have to do anything except C development. And save those missives about how .NET will wipe Java off the face of the development map, or how XML will replace relational databases, or how you can write anything in assembler or C, so no other development tool is even important.
Instead, speculate on what might happen if you didn't have a job—like so many of your development peers who have been affected by layoffs and closings over the past couple of years. What if you suddenly needed to move? Or, suppose your company were to make a sudden technology turn?
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don't know anything about your specific job. I don't know whether you're in danger of losing it, if you're a guru in some niche technology and therefore indispensable, or if your company is so staid that your present skills will be sufficient for the rest of your tenure there. So please hang onto those letters telling me that your company is perfectly happy with VB3 or that you'll never ever have to do anything except C development. And save those missives about how .NET will wipe Java off the face of the development map, or how XML will replace relational databases, or how you can write anything in assembler or C, so no other development tool is even important.
