An excellent piece of advice and backed with statistics from dice.com. It is extremely important to keep yourself upto-date in VLSI field too. BTW, CVC offers the relveant training on VLSI functional verification, see: sv-verif.blogspot.com for upcoming classes.
Electronic Business: How do the top worries for technology professionals in 2009 compare to those in last year's survey results? Was "keeping skills up to date" at the top last year?
Silver: We didn’t ask that question last year, however, we’ve asked similar questions many times and keeping skills up to date is always a huge concern for technology professionals. There is an obsolescence issue with technology. In order to stay relevant and continue to increase your earnings potential, adding skills is the most direct path to higher compensation. Updating and broadening one’s skill set is important in any economy, but with the job market softening and the economy declining, technology professionals need to be as up to date as possible to have the best chance at a new job should they fall victim to a layoff.
| Answer | Responses from total survery, % | Responses from EEs only, % |
| Keeping skills up-to-date/being valuable to employer | 22% | 23% |
| Position elimination | 20% | 21% |
| …. | ||
