they changed, and companies are wanting so much more now, than they did in 1997. In 1997 if you had a Two Year Degree you could get hired. In 2002, now, a two year degree gets your resume pitched in the trash unless the HR Department is savvy enough to see your other skills and experience, or if you can somehow get your resume past HR and straight into IT you might stand a chance.

Beer Job I applied for required:

PGP
ASP
Visual BASIC
IIS
Visual Interdev
Oracle
DHTML
Javascript
VBScript
Crystal Reports
Third Party ActiveX Controls
COM+
XML
SOAP
TOAD
Netscape
Internet Explorer

Same job at the company that I applied for in 1997 required:

Visual BASIC
Javascript
VBScript
HTML

They added on the other technologies later. If the IT Workers don't learn or use these newer technologies, they will be locked out of a lot of jobs.

I thought it was interesting that they wanted to use PGP on an FTP Server. I never used it for such, but I did use it for Email and File protection. They said there was rumors that the company that owns PGP will either sell it, or go out of business and discontinue it. I told them about GNUGP and they seemed to be a bit interested in it, but when I mentioned that it was Open Sourced, it got me a mixed reaction.