With all the noise about the shortage of IT professionals and reports of IT people being able to write their own tickets when job shopping; you might expect that traditional job-hunting and interview skills cease to matter. Wrong, plenty of companies are still being choosey about who they hire. They want employees who will be able to contribute to the organization right from the start, fit into the corporate culture and stay with the company for years. The interview is the seminal piece in their effort to identify those traits in potential employees.

As we scour the Web for IT career information, we continue to see evidence of how important the interview is for job seekers. Countless conference sessions are dedicated to interviewing; books are written about it; and software is developed to teach you how to do it. Advice and information on interviewing, and being interviewed, is available on many different sites. We saved you the trouble of hunting for it.