"Even in this weakened economy, enterprise CIOs seem only slightly concerned about job security and believe their career prospects are good."


Writes SearchCIO.com. In a recent survey of enterprise CIOs and IT managers, 67% responded they are either mostly confident (43.88%) or very confident (23.21%) about their job security.

"In interviews with CIOs, headhunters and industry watchers, the consensus was that CIOs -- if not lower-level IT workers -- are relatively immune from the current economic turbulence. Unlike the last economic downturn in 2000-2001, when CIOs were at the epicenter of the technology-driven bust and often censured (and sometimes fired) for wasting corporate dollars, these days the good IT executive is more often viewed as an architect of cost savings and improved processes than as the prodigal geek."

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