Take the anti-outsourcing pill -- Hybrid your IT career

Overview If want to figure out what outsourcing means to you as an IT professional, then you need to read this edition of The Hot Button.

If you're still trying to figure out what outsourcing means to you as a worker in an IT job market that's still trying to sort itself out after a tumultuous five years, then you need to read this edition of The Hot Button to learn how to 'hybrid' yourself.

Steven Warren opens this week's column by writing, "In today's cutthroat, highly-competitive IT job market, there simply aren't many guaranteed jobs. The IT job environment of the late 1990's, when we constantly heard about the shortage of technology workers to fill available jobs, is gone and it's unlikely that it will return in our lifetime - at least for those of us in the United States. As a result, we have to reset our thinking for the IT environment we're now in. Unlike the late 1990's, this environment does not promise a handful of job opportunities waiting in the wings if your current job doesn't work out, so you need to take what I like to call a 'hybrid' approach to your IT career."
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