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Fairfax County: Microsoft stack, cloud and PM/cyber certifications top IT hiring priorities
Summary
Fairfax County panelists said the county is standardizing on Microsoft Azure, Office 365, SharePoint, Power BI and Power Apps and recommended applicants emphasize cloud, CRM and project-management/cybersecurity certifications; they also warned that automated HR screens favor keyword-matched application fields.
Fairfax County officials on the VLGMA webinar laid out practical hiring priorities for county IT and department-level technology roles.
"We're a Microsoft shop," said Firdal Sakim, information technology director with the Department of Family Services in Fairfax County. "Microsoft Azure, 365, Azure... SharePoint online, Power BI, Power Apps" are technologies the county is actively deploying, he said, and CRM platforms such as…
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