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Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) is leading a coalition of technology-based employers to find solutions aimed at closing Minnesota's IT skills gap. There are an estimated 2,700 IT jobs in the Twin Cities alone, that remain unfilled - the IT Action Alliance is working to address this gap. The alliance is divided into workgroups to address 4 key objectives: ■ Launch a ten-year marketing campaign to deliver high-quality candidates for every open IT position ■ Increase re-employment of displaced IT workers through training opportunities ■ Utilize internships as a tool to place two and four-year college graduates ■ Promote IT careers in grades 6-12 to increase the number of high school students entering post-secondary programs.

Hiring and salary surveys, such as the 2014 IT Skills and Salary Survey from Global Knowledge and Windows IP Pro, TEKsystems' 2014 Annual IT Forecast, Foote Research Group's 2014 IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index, Computerworld's annual Forecast survey, Robert Half Technology Survey, and information from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Futurestep, Mondo, GovLoop, and Dice have presented a developing picture of the IT skills that will be in demand in 2014. Here, in survey order, are the top 10 major skills and why they made the list.

Checkout this infographic about the highest paying and fastest growing IT Jobs out there. It has never been a better time than now to be part of the IT industry.

The Minnesota IT Workforce Commons (MNITWC) is a repository for information and articles on all things IT and a place to enter the discussion on current topics. The MITWC monitors and reports local changes in IT employment from both an employee and employer perspective.

Microsoft's App Studio service is fun. At launch, it supported the creation of simple Windows Phone applications so everyone could get their hands dirty and build something. The service has been upgraded throughout its life, and today picked up a key update: The ability to create a combined Windows and Windows Phone application in one go.

Unemployment in the U.S. is declining, as demand for new jobs picks up across the country, and nowhere is the need more acutely felt than in tech industry. With its heady mix of Horatio Alger rags-to-riches success stories, its emphasis on individualism and privileging hard work and education, no industry is a better poster child for post-industrial American capitalism than the startup world of coders, marketers, and salesman.

In this report, I've reviewed the 15 most popular certifications according to our more than 12,000 North American respondents. For each certification, you'll find a brief description, the average salary, and some insight into why it is popular.

Search 80,000+ tech jobs. Dice.com has business analyst, software engineer, QA jobs and many more. Manage your tech job search and IT career on Dice.

The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce is an independent, nonprofit research and policy institute affiliated with the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy that studies the link between education, career qualifications, and workforce demands. Core Research: The Center conducts research in three core areas with the goal of better aligning education and training with workforce and labor market demand: jobs, skills, and people. ■ JOBS: Our first research focus is on the historic and future labor market supply and labor market demand for education, with secondary interest in occupation and industrial clusters at the national and sub-national levels. ■ SKILLS: Our second research focus is on connecting 21st Century competencies with education, training, and applied learning pathways. ■ PEOPLE: Our third research focus is on identifying the effect of changing job requirements and skill demand on students and the current workforce, with a focus on varying degrees of access and success by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Public Policy The Center seeks to inform and educate federal, state, and local policymakers and stakeholders on ways to better align education and training with labor market demand and qualifications. It also seeks to create tools that enable decision makers to access and customize the data to allow for national, state, and sub-state analysis.

The recent discovery of the Heartbleed bug underscores the ever-present threats to Internet security. But it also accentuates a serious shortage of cybersecurity specialists. Eduardo Garcia, a

When it comes to educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers, (ISC)² is acknowledged as the global, not-for-profit leader.

New book on cybersecurity for businesses. This might be helpful to use with talking to business. I haven't had time to check into in more detail, but thought it was worth sharing.

Susan and I saw a presentation at NACADA that this story reminded me about.  GamerGate has been a huge issue in the tech community for the last week or two and centers on online harassment of women in the gaming community.  I don't have a pithy thought on it, but I think it's an important issue in preparing a diverse tech workforce.

In conjunction with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development's (DEED) Labor Market Information staff, workforce analysis reports have been compiled and analyzed based on the state's six regional planning areas. These reports will provide an introductory framework and context for discussion during the regional meetings.

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