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Hiring In the Age of Dispersed Technology Spending
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Technology is spreading beyond the confines of IT, and with this shift is a change in control over technical hiring.
Rather than rely on IT to configure and administer technologies they procure themselves, line of business units such as HR, finance, and marketing are hiring their own IT expertise in the form of hybrid positions that mix business and technical skills.
"These roles are different from typical IT roles as they often focus on configuration and best practice implementation of external cloud solutions versus the traditional IT roles of developing software and implementing technology," says Paul Watson, senior vice president at SenecaGlobal, a company offering IT solutions.
But the shift toward hybrid line-of-business hiring doesn't mean IT shouldn't be involved.
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