What is the new hot skill to have on your resume?

[ultimatebob]

I'm curious... what do you guys think is THE hot new IT skill to have on your resume nowadays to get people's attention? It is Virtualization? Drupal? Android or iOS development? JQuery? Hadoop?

What do you guys think?

 

[ethebubbeth]

If you're talking to HR it's probably "the cloud".

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, Android Development, iOS Deveopment.

 

[Kadarin]

If you're talking to HR it's probably "the cloud".

That's so last year. Now it's "The Internet of Things".

 

[SP33Demon]

Roobie

 

[xBiffx]

Hadoop is hot where I work. Anything dealing with mega data is going to be hot today.

 

[waggy]

Cobol and Fotran!

 

[PliotronX]

Touching your nose with your tongue

 

[Fritzo]

If you're talking to HR it's probably "the cloud".

LOL- that's the truth. It depends on what area you're in though. In coastal cities, they say "Cloud" in front of everything IT related. Around where I live, nobody knows what cloud services are. The company I work for has awesome cloud products but people keep opting to put their own dedicated services and hire their own IT guys because "storing stuff on the Internet" is too difficult to grasp

Anyway, it looks like things like A+, Network+ and so forth are hot. Also Google certs are getting popular because a lot of small businesses and institutions are switching to Google Apps.

 

[_Rick_]

Seconding COBOL.

It depends on the niche, but being able to create stuff on top of and underneath Hadoop is worth quite a lot these days.

 

[Hugo Drax]

"Cloud" and now there is a new term making the rounds called "Galactic computing" so you might want to get ahead of the curve and throw that in as well.

 

[Rakehellion]

Eating pussy. I'm a pro. It's right there in black and white.

 

[Rakehellion]

"Cloud" and now there is a new term making the rounds called "Galactic computing" so you might want to get ahead of the curve and throw that in as well.

 

[Rakehellion]

My uncle did network security for Verizon pulling 300k and the skills section of his résumé had a list of acronyms spanning half the page.

It's probably best to develop actual skills instead of latching onto the next fad that'll be gone in a year.

 

[yhelothar]

Hadoop is hot where I work. Anything dealing with mega data is going to be hot today.

Seconded. Today's business are driven through massive amounts of data. Big Data provides the means to find patterns and trends in that data.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Bleaching anuses.

 

[SagaLore]

A+

 

[Slew Foot]

H1-B

 

[Train]

experience.

I have done 15+ years coding professionally. Well, as far as screeners go, I fall into the 10+ category, the highest.

If me and a guy with all the same alphabet soup resume apply for the same job, but he only has 5 years, I'm getting the job. So many positions these days want "senior developers".

Yes, startups and small companies might take the cheaper guy, but my experience is that those places are shit to work at. Mostly because they think getting the 5 year guy is a bargain, when in the long run, he's more expensive.

 

[fjmeat]

H1N1

 

[Fritzo]

Eating pussy. I'm a pro. It's right there in black and white.

Well, you are what you eat....


*ZING!* *KA-POW!* *ZOWIE!*

 

[PlanetJosh]

Html. It's up there with Cobol mentioned earlier.

 

[Imp]

Will work for free.

 

[darkewaffle]

Tweetability

 

[twinrider1]

H1N1

I still laughed, but I don't think you meant H1N1.