Tech Topic Connection-IT Career

            In the previous posts, I have covered and discussed various aspects of the computer technology and information technology. As it has been becoming more popular and common to discuss about the career choices within IT field, there are many people, including myself, who have been diving into IT field from different types of job fields. Thus, when it comes to the fundamental knowledge on information technology, it is related to a lot more people than it used to before. Obtaining and maintaining, even upgrading the fundamental knowledge of  information technology is important to have for those who are trying to change their career into IT, but also those who are already in the field, because the technology is ever-changing and affecting everyone’s life at work, and personal daily tasks.

 

 For example, in financial services industry where  I am in, the development and functions of computers has been a huge factor for improvement of the quality of service and customer's experience. Back in the days, there was a time where the bank tellers did have to calculate the cash by their hand, and have to manually receive and record on the checks and everytihng. There was a no way of transferring the funds electronically and it was mostly check or cash, where a lof ot transactions can have some risk of loss of times, physically. As the computer has been developing, nowadays, there is not a single day that the banking is done involved with technology. One can check their bank account balance, transfer funds between their accounts, set up an external accounts with even other banks, set up bill pay, wire transfer not only domestic but even internationally. This all became possible these days is more convenient.

 

 Even though this is just a part of one job field, computer and information technology is greatly impacting a lot of parts of the industry. IT field, thus, has been increasing it’s own opportunities throughout the world. Then, what are out there?

 

 As computer has different components that can be discussed deeper, there are different routes of careers depending on them according to Coursera’s article. One of the most popular, commonly though career path is software engineer , developers. Software developers , develops and creates applications and systems that are used through computers (and mobile devices like cell phone or tablets). They use computer language like Java, C++, Python, etc., to build and develop the programs and applications.  There is a path network and system administration, and network/system administrators work on maintaining, configuring the organization’s(employees’ and also the company’s) computer or network. They can also work for making sure the security of the network of the organization is in the right place. Also there is a path for database management. Database management is about managing and ensuring the performance of the database in computer. There are career paths in Cybersecurity too. Cybersecurity field is becoming more and more important these days as there are increasing number of hacking, ransomware, cyberattacks in various ways while information technology is evolving. Also there are IT or Desk technician career paths, which is about maintaining and repairing issues with the computer technical or IT . There is also, Data Analyst path, a data analyst examines and interprets data to help organizations make informed decisions.

 While this might seem just a long list of the jobs you can go into within IT fields, one needs to remember that just jumping into IT, just because they say it’s better paying job can be a misled motivation. Being in IT field requires more of understanding of computer knowledge but also requires a lot of emotional intelligence to be successful, according to Ludovino, E.M(2017).

 

 

 

 

Reference

Ludovino, E. M. (2017). Emotional intelligence for IT professionals : the must-have guide for a successful career in IT. Packt.

https://www.coursera.org/articles/entry-level-it-jobs