The demand for IT jobs has increased due to COVID-19. People have been working remotely and been focused on improving their online services. My interest in this topic has been driven by the reason that IT careers do not earn the respect they deserve compared to occupations like doctors or lawyers. In fact, IT careers have supported both these professions and more either by coding programs in healthcare facilities or safe-guarding classified documents of law through cyber systems.
Technology and especially computers have evolved over the years. Before, the travel of information was slow and a long process especially when using fax, mail and radio. Now, it has modernized to transfer larger amounts of information faster. No longer do we have to wait on sending mail that will take two to four weeks. Instead, we can send emails that takes a seconds and can send large amount of information. Instead we are sending emails instead of physical mails and fax that will take seconds and send larger documents in a one time transfer.
According to the Insider, modern computers can be dated back to 1930s. In previous times computers have created jobs for Mathematicians, scientists and programmers. Modern computer systems has eliminated the need for human labor. It has also affected the skill level need for employees. Even more so, has caused the redundance of IT careers where particular jobs no longer exist or roles are combined creating newer jobs. Modern systems has made work a little easier for computer engineers.
There are four primary elements of Information Technology, information security database and network management, computer technical support and business software development. According to these concepts, each of these are related to IT careers. In IT, it is important to note the importance of computer security and computers on a whole as well as learning programming languages. Programming language is a skill needed as a prerequisite for most technology careers. It is also imperative for certain IT careers to learn and understand specific programming languages. Python language is claimed to be the programming language of the 21st century, and as IT careers and computers modernizes, it is important for IT careers to stay current so as to stay relevant to the industry. Professionals are needed to protect computers by using cybersecurity, and in order to use computer to its fullest capacity, IT specialist need to and understand the different programming languages. For this reason IT analysts are needed.
Apart from programming languages being prerequisites for jobs, there are different application software that are also required for these careers. The most widely known include web browsers, spreadsheets, word processor and presentation software. These primarily used in almost all organizations, by careers outside of IT careers. This is also why most careers including IT careers want their employees to be highly skilled in using these application software. Excel more importantly organizes and stores data for further analysis. This why these application software are important for storing and organizing as well as analyzing data. This is what we will call database management and in order to secure these documents we need passwords and VPNs.
Database management deals with the process of analyzing and maintaining data. Information Technology highlights how its careers have different roles which include managing stored data. A computer acts as the house of managing stored data and this is what IT careers aim to achieve. Therefore, most IT jobs is about database management.
When pursing an Information Technology degree, as students, we learn the basics of hardware, software and networks. Before we start our journey of IT degrees, we need to understand these basic information. We understand how information travels from network to network. Therefore, the entire basics of client/server network or peer-peer network. It is important for IT students who later become IT specialist to understand network architecture and security, both of these work hand-in-hand. This is because it affect the performance of the overall computer as well how to secure the data being transferred.
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