Informational Technology Advancement

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tributors to this trend. Workers with "skills in wireless LAN and firewall administration are highly marketable in the current environment," according to the RHT. Companies are looking for workers who have experience in security hardware and software and intrusion detection. Network administrators, security analysts, and network engineers are in the highest demand (CIO Report, 2002).

User support jobs also are growing, according to the RHT report, with 15 percent of chief information officers rating this as their leading area of growth. While doing business over the Internet is not a new trend, organizations are relying increasingly on their Web sites to conduct business. The result is a greater need for internal and external user support. Workers in demand in this area include support analysts, technical administrators, and computer technicians (CIO Report, 2002).

Another high-growth IT employment area is Internet and intranet development. The continuing reliance on the Internet as a way to conduct business and the recent push to transition to Web-based services are feeding the growth. In the RHT report, 13 percent of Chief information officers rank this area as the biggest IT growth area for their firm. IT professionals with Extensible Markup Language and JavaScript skills are in particularly high demand. Web designers, Web programmers, and Web developers were listed as the workers most sought after in this area (CIO Report, 2002).

The specialty area experiencing the strongest growth in corporate IT departments in the United States is the networking department, according to the top CE...