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The Future of It Will Be Reduced to Three Kinds of Jobs
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The IT profession and the IT job market are in the midst of seismic changes that are going to shift the focus to three types of jobs. IT departments have drastically reduced the number of tech professionals providing support and administrators managing networks and servers. Millennials in the workforce don't need as much tech support. Plus, software has gotten better.
So where does that leave today's IT professionals? Where will the IT jobs of the future be?
1. Consultants. Most traditional IT administration and support functions will be outsourced to third-party consultants. Corporations will purchase IT services on an as-needed basis in order to lower costs, get a higher level of expertise, and get 24/7/365 coverage.
2. Project managers. Most IT workers who remain as employees in traditional companies will be project managers. They will not be part of a centralized IT department, but will be spread out in the various business units and departments. You can already see a lot of current IT managers morphing in this direction.
3. Developers. By far, the area where the largest number of IT jobs is going to move is into developer, programmer, and coder jobs. Current changes in IT are shifting more of the power in the tech industry away from those who deploy and support apps to those who build them. This trend is already underway and will only accelerate over the next decade.
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