Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The 10 MOST DEMANDING JOB IN IT

What are the 10 most demanding jobs in IT?
Well, according to a survey by Emerson Network Power, a provider of high-availability data center infrastructure management products, they are:
1. Executive director/administrator 2. IT procurement 3. CIO 4. IT manager/director 5. IT operations 6. Data center manager 7. Engineering 8. IT security 9. Applications/software development 10. Database management
Emerson surveyed 800 IT professionals from four regions -- the U.S., Asia, Europe and Latin America -- representing 17 work roles and 18 industries, at businesses ranging from 50 to more than 10,000 employees. Most questions were designed to gauge who and what role in IT was "Always-On" -- a reference to Emerson's business in power supplies -- and used an agreement scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree.
There we three open-ended questions:
• How many hours per week do you work at your IT job? Include paid and unpaid hours.
• What are the most demanding aspects of your IT job?
• Please describe one or two situations that best illustrate how your IT job requires you to be Always-On: always available, always working at peak capacity and always accurate.