Title: Senior vice president, North American Information Resources Field Services

Company: Marriott International Inc.

Fox is this month's guest Premier 100 IT Leader, answering readers' questions about skills enhancement and project management. If you have a question you'd like to pose to one of our Premier 100 IT Leaders, send it to askaleader@computerworld.com and watch for this column online each month.

It seems that IT workers 50 and older are having a more difficult time finding IT jobs. What can these workers do to ensure that they have the skills, experience and education for future opportunities? In my own case, I would like to work another five to 10 years before retirement. -- D.S.

IT professionals are faced with an ever-increasing pace of change, with the two biggest drivers being Moore's Law and globalization. A first step to keeping your technical and other skills current (and continuing to be an attractive resource in the job market) is to learn everything you can about your business, paying particular attention to the vision that your company's leaders are articulating. Then ask how the IT department is enabling that vision - what are the company's current technologies, and how are they being used? What are the IT organization's short- and long-term strategies to meet the business's needs? Do your strengths fit into these strategies?