Is your job safe?

If you don't know if your job is safe, your head has been in the sand for far too long. If you are in a hard-hit sector like retail or financial services, start updating that resume. Even if you're in a relatively safe sector, such as energy, the changing nature of IT may very well mean that, at the very least, you'll need to modernize your skill set.

And make sure you know that the only IT workers who shouldn't been losing sleep right now are those involved with a few technologies that will grow as a result of the recession, such as virtualization, utility computing and green IT.

"It's a challenging job market, but some positions remain hard to fill," said John Estes, a vice president with the IT staffing firm Robert Half Technology. "The most skilled IT professionals are in demand for positions in areas such as web development, applications development, network administration, and help desk and desktop support. While employers are making tough decisions and are in a cost-conscious mode, job seekers with specific, hard-to-find skills continue to have opportunities available to them. In this type of market, it becomes essential for them to understand which skills are in demand and find ways to acquire them," he added.

For more on the IT job market this year:
- check out the CIOupdate.com article by Jeff Vance

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