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

[JEDI]

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?

cyber security?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

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.

I disagree. The reason startups hire young people is that they tend do be more pliable. They can pick up 2-3 laguages in a year and become extremely versitile. If you get good at one language, you can pick up other ones fairly quickly.

The current software enviroment is rapidly changing. You need people who stay on top of the insanely quickly changing landscape.

 

[Chaotic42]

Underwater Fortran 77 programming. Low demand, but you'll have a job for life if you can get it.

Seriously though, for my industry Python and Javascipt seem to be really hot these days.

 

[Train]

I disagree. The reason startups hire young people is that they tend do be more pliable. They can pick up 2-3 laguages in a year and become extremely versitile. If you get good at one language, you can pick up other ones fairly quickly.

The current software enviroment is rapidly changing. You need people who stay on top of the insanely quickly changing landscape.

by pliable you mean abuse-able. I've seen 45 year-olds pick up Ruby like it's nothing.

The "younger guys are more current" meme was debunked years ago.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

by pliable you mean abuse-able. I've seen 45 year-olds pick up Ruby like it's nothing.

The "younger guys are more current" meme was debunked years ago.

Ruby IS nothing. It was meant to be obscenely easy to learn.

As for abusable, meh. If you don't have a family, and your startup is awesome (serisously, a friend who works at dropbox said that he would LIVE there if he could) why not?

 

[Train]

Ruby IS nothing. It was meant to be obscenely easy to learn.

Ok not the best example. But if you want someone to pick up objective C for example, who do you think can do it better?

A) Recent college grad who knows Java and dabbled in Scheme?
B) The old guy who did Assembly in the 80's, C++ in the 90's, and PHP in the 2000's?

B will whip A's ass in well written Obj C

 

[Printer Bandit]

Swift

Swift took language ideas "from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list"

 

[SKORPI0]

Cobol and Fortran!

Still relevant now and then. Perhaps Assembly and BASIC too.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Big Data & ETL still seem to be pretty popular. Contractors that know Ab Initio are harder to come by and much more expensive than ones who only know Java.

 

[JEDI]

so big data > cyber security?
(I live near dc)

 

[IronWing]

APL

 

[zerocool84]

Nunchuck skills and Bow Hunting skills

 

[SheHateMe]

A+

And Sec+

Down here in DC. If you have those and pretty good experience, you will probably end up with a Secret Clearance making some decent money.



To put things into perspective, I moved down here to Northern Virginia right after I graduated College in December. I had 3-4 years of experience working on a help desk but had a hard time getting interviews because they were putting things like the A+ as a requirement for applications....also, there was the whole "Must have active clearance" or "Must be clearable" thing.

I got some interviews, but I was losing out on like 80% of the jobs I was eligible for because I didn't have an A+ or a Sec+.

So, I spent 1 week on the A+. It was easy as hell. I aced it. The next 3 weeks, I studied for Sec+. Aced it. Put it on my resume...suddenly, I was getting callbacks. Nothing changed about my resume except for these two certs.

 

[Chaotic42]

APL

APL is awesome.

 

[jpiniero]

Mandarin? Hindu?

 

[slugg]

Besides the already mentioned buzz word stuff, I've seen a rise in demand for data modeling, and completely unrelated, aspect oriented programming. These are the bigger picture skills that are rising, in my opinion. What I mean by this is that real-world applications of all these buzz-word-driven positions like "big data" crap rely heavily on data modeling, and depending on what you're doing, can benefit from AOP.

The lower level, "code-monkey" stuff that gets you jobs are whatever the flavor-of-the-week programming languages are. Right now, that's basically anything that isn't Java or .NET. Yesterday it was Ruby, today it's Python, and tomorrow it could be Node.js. Who knows; who cares. Remember when Grails was "the shit?"

The people that made all of these popular are the same people who claim C++, Java, and C#/.NET are dead. Yeah, okay. Just like the MongoDB "big data" punch-drinkers think NoSQL is the second coming of Christ. They fail to realize that the relational model still solves 95% of our problems very, very effectively. These people annoy the hell out of me to the point that I want to strangle them, so help me Codd.

For the management or BA types, a big buzzword right now is "Agile Transformation." In other words, converting an existing development model (likely waterfall) to the agile methodology. There's big money in this right now.

 

[IronWing]

Flowcharting and Venn diagrams are a must.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Mandarin? Hindu?

learning to speak a religion is nice.

 

[SP33Demon]

And Sec+

Down here in DC. If you have those and pretty good experience, you will probably end up with a Secret Clearance making some decent money.



To put things into perspective, I moved down here to Northern Virginia right after I graduated College in December. I had 3-4 years of experience working on a help desk but had a hard time getting interviews because they were putting things like the A+ as a requirement for applications....also, there was the whole "Must have active clearance" or "Must be clearable" thing.

I got some interviews, but I was losing out on like 80% of the jobs I was eligible for because I didn't have an A+ or a Sec+.

So, I spent 1 week on the A+. It was easy as hell. I aced it. The next 3 weeks, I studied for Sec+. Aced it. Put it on my resume...suddenly, I was getting callbacks. Nothing changed about my resume except for these two certs.

So did you get a job off of them or not?

 

[MongGrel]

Tie A Cherry Stem In A Knot With Your Tongue


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIy2noifXiI

I'll just stop there

 

[brianmanahan]

neffing

 

[brianmanahan]

Swift

Swift took language ideas "from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list"

swift is basically groovy

seriously, all of the basic constructs are the same

the first time i read swift i didn't realize it was swift, because it would have executed as a .groovy script

 

[ultimatebob]

neffing

Sweet! I'm ready for the 21st century!

 

[Wyndru]

A lot of vmware certs are desired on applications I've been looking at. The market already seems flooded with data center admins with virtualization experience though.

And if you are near Moscone Center, San Francisco during vmworld (August 24-28), cert exams are 50% off.

http://www.pearsonvue.com/vmware/vmworld/

 

[schmuckley]

swallerin'