1. Chapter 16 Careers in Information Technology
CMIT100
Chapter 16
Careers in Information Technology

2. Learning Objectives Discuss careers in IT.
Describe forms of continuing education in IT.
Introduce social concerns related to IT.
Discuss ethical conduct in the IT field.

3. Careers in IT Are you pursuing a degree in IT because of the money?
You’ve got to love it… it can be so frustrating
Do you hate it when the computer system or device wins?
Career skills go beyond mastering the technologies
Analytical skills
Critical thinking (troubleshooting)
Other soft skills
Communicating using correct terminologies
Working with a team
Writing (creating technical documentation)
Research (analyzing the information provided on the Internet)

4. Careers in IT From the US Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

5. Careers in IT From the US Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupations with the most job growth
Jobsinme.com searches:
Search Information Technology:
Search Computer Support:
Field Technician Job at Winxnet:
Search Information Security:

6. Careers in IT Forbes Magazine:
The 10 Highest-Paying Tech Jobs Right Now
Software Architect - $116,267*
Data Scientist - $109,399
Devops Engineer - $106,045
Software Engineer - $98,304
Java Developer - $98,304
Mobile Developer - $96,133
Frontend Developer - $92,133
Software Developer - $87,185
Database Admin - $87,025
.Net Developer - $83,936
*average salary

7. Careers in IT Devops defined (quoting directly from Wikipedia):
DevOps (a clipped compound of "development" and "operations") is a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The main characteristic of the DevOps movement is to strongly advocate automation and monitoring at all steps of software construction, from integration, testing, releasing to deployment and infrastructure management. DevOps aims at shorter development cycles, increased deployment frequency, and more dependable releases, in close alignment with business objectives.

8. Careers in IT Devops defined (still quoting directly from Wikipedia):
At the 2008 Agile Toronto conference, Andrew Shafer and Patrick Debois introduced the term in their talk on "Agile Infrastructure“.
The term DevOps has been used in multiple different contexts.
A definition proposed by Bass, Weber, and Zhu, is:
“DevOps is a set of practices intended to reduce the time between committing a change to a system and the change being placed into normal production, while ensuring high quality.”

9. Careers in IT Agile defined (quoting directly from Wikipedia):
Agile software development describes an approach to software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer(s)/end user(s). It advocates adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continual improvement, and it encourages rapid and flexible response to change.

10. Soft Skills Required by Employers
So what are these soft skills being referred to? What follows are some of the cited soft skills demanded by recent employers:
Articulate and observant
A good listener
Able to write and document work
Time management skills
Problem solving, critical thinking, and organizational skills
Has common sense
Strong work ethic, motivated, hardworking, has integrity
Positive attitude
Team player

11. Soft Skills Required by Employers
Soft skills cont.
Confident, courteous, honest, reliable
Many jobs look at criminal backgrounds
Flexible, adaptable, trainable
Desire to learn, able to learn from criticism
Self-supervising
Can handle pressure and stress
Makes eye contact with people, has good personal appearance
A company person (cares about the company’s success), politically sensitive
Can relate to coworkers
Able to network (in social settings)

12. IT Ethics 10 Commandments of computer ethics:
as published by the Computer Ethics Institute, Washington, DC
Take the “Pledge of the Computing Professional” as you complete your CIS degree at SMCC
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