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AI is shaking up IT work, careers, and businesses - and here's how to prepare

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AI is changing the IT industry.

In-demand skills and hiring are also changing.

You can do these things to be prepared.

While IT professionals have remained constant through every technological wave of change, helping people adopt new technology, it doesn't make the industry immune to change itself -- the AI revolution is no exception.

The emergence of generative AI has had a profound impact on how IT professionals develop their skills to stay in demand, allocate their budgets, and adopt the latest technologies. At SpiceWorld, Spiceworks' annual developer IT conference, a session titled "What Generative AI Means for the Future of IT" delved deep into all these topics. (Spiceworks is owned by ZDNET's parent company, Ziff Davis.)

I had the opportunity to sit on a panel with fellow experts in the space, and I gathered some top insights into what you can do to prepare yourself as an IT professional.

Upskill, upskill, upskill

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