October 24, 2006
Hot RFID Career Opportunities
With a predicted shortage in skilled workers for the RFID industry, the number of study programs in colleges and universities are growing. There are also companies like OTA Training, who offer both in-person workshops and classes, as well as e-learning programs. Then there's RFID Recruiters, a company that finds and places business and technical professionals with RFID knowledge/ skills.
They list some of the hot areas for career opportunties on their getting started page: supply chain project management, sales management, RFID tag product management/ marketing, tag design management, middleware business development, channel managers, pharmaceutical smart label sales, print-and-apply technicians. In their actual opportunities listings page, there are over 50 (at the time of writing) executive, sales and technical positions listed.
RFID Recruiters also suggests there will be a growing need for scientists and technicians, since there will be a need to design and test all the new RFID tags with sensor abilities - temperature, humidity, shock and vibration, light. And since the tags of the future will be "very small computers that happen to have a built-in wireless networking capability", there's a need for people with computer networking architecture and management skills. (A geeky aside: Star Trek-like "sensor" mesh networks might even be built in the future, with such RFID tags as the core component. And it'll take some incredible neural network programming skills to have them function correctly.)
Essentially, the whole RFID industry is waiting to boom. All it needs are more skilled workers. To those interested, RFID Recruiters suggests studying the Wal-Mart and DoD mandates, their suppliers, and the equipment/ middleware/ software providers to those suppliers - since Wal-Mart and DoD are driving some of the largest RFID projects.
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