The document discusses why a career in information technology (IT) is an excellent choice. It notes that IT has become fundamentally integrated into nearly every industry and aspect of modern society. The author argues that IT remains an in-demand field that offers opportunities to work with a wide range of technologies while keeping learning and adapting to constant changes. Some key skills needed for IT careers in the 2020s that are highlighted include expertise in areas like artificial intelligence, coding, data analysis, cloud computing, and cybersecurity.

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June 6, 2017
Why I.T.
is important
to your career
Taiss Quartapa,
Manager: Solutions,

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Technology has changed since I was your age …

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Why IT?
30 years ago, if computers disappeared few would have
noticed.
20 years ago you would need to take computers away
from the world for a week for a societal impact to be
seen.
10 years ago, a day’s outage would have caused mass
disruption.
Today, financial markets react when IT disruptions occur
for more than a few hours.
IT services are now a fundamental part of every business
and industry
Can you imagine what the world would be like today
without WhatsApp, Stream, Uber, Tumblr, AirBnB,
EFTPOS?
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IT is a
fundamental
part of our society.
Not some future state,
but right now in …

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… Automotive

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… Mining

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… Farming

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… Medicine

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The next ten years will see more
changes than the last thirty years.

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Why is a career in IT an
excellent choice?
I.T. remains an increasingly in-demand field.
There’s a huge spectrum of applications and technologies you
get to work with.
It challenges you – to grow your potential and keep learning.
There’s a career to match your personality!
There’s probably one to match your imagination as well!
There are job opportunities almost anywhere.
You can make a real difference to your clients, to business and
to society.
Overall, It’s interesting … and yes the pay$ good too!
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IT is an excellent “and” choice …
Merge your interests with IT!
Every Industry will need these skills.
From Anatomy to Zoology, there isn’t a single field that
would not benefit from technology insights
IT also needs creative thinkers from many fields to be
involved in what inventions and innovations come next!
You could be contributing to the new set of techniques,
disciplines and tools for the next decade.

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“If everything seems
under control, you’re
not going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti
• LIFELONG LEARNING : With the world moving as
fast as it is, we need to become a society of people
who are always learning new things
• ADAPTABILITY : You need to be resourceful, see
opportunities at every turn, like to experiment and
keep thinking ahead.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN : With opportunities in
innovation and entrepreneurship on the rise,
understanding how businesses work is essential.
• SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE : It’s going to take a long
time for AI and robots to be good at soft skills – so
making sure you refine your social and emotional
intelligence is a good start to remaining relevant.
Collaboration and cross-cultural competencies will
become highly valued.
• NEW MEDIA LITERACY : Understanding various
media platforms and how to best communicate
effectively in them—are valuable skills that AI and
robots also won’t be likely to match any time soon.
• DESIGN MINDSET : A way of thinking which
accounts for the design-characteristics- any aspect
which is used as a benefit or a drawback of the
technical component or technique in the overall
design.
• COMPUTATIONAL THINKING : As the total
amount of information coming at you increases and
increases, the ability to manage that in a way that
you’re not overwhelmed, is pretty key
What capabilities will you need in 2022?

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IT SKILLS for the 2020’s
• Hardware specialists and electrical
engineers will still be needed – except they
will be playing with Internet of Things,
Wearables, next-generation drones and
robotics as well.
• Artificial Intelligence will play a bigger part
in the next decade, so along with all of these
other services, Integration experts and
Cyber Specialists will be tackling the need
to manage new technologies while the
blurring line between services and
technologies continues.
• Coding: The new “other language” people
will need to study. From old classics like
PERL to current standard Ruby on Rails and
new to the block Spark – all will all be heavily
utilised for Cloud, DevOps, and BigData.
• Data is the new basis of IT and currency.
The need to protect transactions (such as via
BlockChain), maintain a distributed massive
data collections with Hadoop and analyse
those same collections with a data-
processing tool such as Spark are all big
ticket items.
• As-a-Service / Cloud based IT - Amazon
Web Services and Azure aren’t the only
players – Specialists in SalesForce, Workday
and other platforms will be “standard IT”

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Thank you.
Questions?
Taiss Quartapa,
Manager: Solutions,
DXC.Technology