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- 1. A Career In Technology geoffmccormack@yahoo.com
- 2. About Me
- 3. https://www.comptia.org/resources/cyberstates-2016 Why technology ? 3 6.7M 104% 7.1% Its Fun and Challenging If you embrace change and enjoy problem solving a technology career is for you. 6.7 Million Jobs in the US 7.1% of the US Gross Domestic Product is from the tech industry. 500,000 tech companies Six Figure Annual Average Wage 104% more than the average private sector worker. Most Jobs Do Not Require Multiple Degrees Curiosity, Passion and Problem Solving are key to a successful career.
- 4. Closer to Home 4,300 7th Crain’s $78,000 As of this weekend, Linked In had 4,300 open IT jobs posted in Cleveland alone. Monster.com has the Cleveland/Columbus Areas ranked 7th in the country for IT Opportunities The hunt for Northeast Ohio tech talent is 'super crazy' The average annual salary for a software developer in Cleveland (Glass Door) 4
- 5. What sort of jobs are out there ? 5 Programmer Writing code, designing solutions. Need to keep your skills upto date. Analyst Liason between programmers and customers. Communication skills are key to be successful. Security Stay ahead of the bad guys and help programmers write better code. Engineer Primarily work on the network and hardware to run software. Cloud computing makes this an exciting time to be in this role. Graphic Designer To attract customers, companies need pleasing and intuitive interfaces. Developers generally aren’t good at this. http://www.modis.com/clients/salary-guide/job-categories/ https://resources.workable.com/job-descriptions/information-technology-job-descriptions/ https://www.totaljobs.com/careers-advice/job-profile/it-jobs
- 6. What will be hot when you graduate 6 Cyber Security Customer data and intellectual property protection will continue to be companies top priority. Voice Recognition Google Home and the Amazon Echo will change the way we interact with tech. Virtual Reality VR is going beyond gaming and will be mainstream for complex training and simulations. Cognitive Learning Big Data is here to stay. We can process historical data-sets to predict future outcomes
- 7. Where to learn more 7 Google Developer Free on-line training and loads of resources for mobile development. Pluralsight Excellent catalogue of technology tutorials. Pay site but well worth it if you are serious about becoming a professional. Microsoft Dev Getting started on several development platforms. Microsoft is no longer just their proprietary dev environment, but they have support for most languages including node and python. Blog 20 ways to learn how to code
- 8. Final Thoughts 8 No matter what you ultimately decide to do. If you focus on the ten things above, you can’t go wrong.
- 9. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY AND BEST OF LUCK IN 2017