You may be more valuable than you think

Do you feel like when you talk no one is listening? Does it seem like the only time you see your boss is when something goes wrong? When someone, always a person without the power to change anything, asks how you do it, get up each morning, work frantically for hours on end, late nights, bad food, darken cubicles all around you, you often answer that you are “self motivated.”

For many of us “self motivation” may be just a different way of saying – please excuse my English – that nobody praises me for nothing I do, no how, nowhere, no way. Your malady may be genuine, it may be strictly in your mind, or, perhaps, it may be somewhere in between. Regardless, in the brave new world of 2011 IT employment your hard-won skills may well be much more valuable than you think.

Want a new IT job? Now’s your chance! is the title of an excellent new article by Ann Bednarz, published in CIO online. She pulls together a comprehensive picture of the current Tech employment environment, quotes and statistics from many sources, Dice.com, Robert Half Technology, CareerBuilder.com, and more. The picture she paints is promising, sincere employer efforts to retain key people, better compensation, improved working conditions, concrete plans to recruitment permanent workers, a 40% increase in IT job postings.

In the article Oracle skills, including PeopleSoft Enterprise I would presume, are expressly recognized as being in the “most valuable” category.

Dice also singled out demand for experienced Oracle (ORCL) pros, which is up 57% year over year

If you are suffering the ill effects of low employment esteem I hope this posting raised your spirits a bit. I have a feeling 2011 could be your year, your best year in a while, possibly, your best year in your career. Why? Because you may just be more valuable than you think.