I know techies.com has a skills index, but the latest one I could find was from 2002. What are your top 10 IT must have skills (or 1, 5, 8, 30, whatever, I don’t care) – Certs? Languages? Skills? VPNs, Cisco, MCSE, Oracle, C++? For someone hiring an IT/IS/CIO manager, what hard skills do you look for? As a developer, what do you see in demand? Feel free to say generally or for specific positions. With all the different tracks people can go (tech fads? I’m sure they exist). I’m interested to see what people think of as the “must” skills to have – I want to see through all the hype.