Careers in Computing (2019 Edition)

Talk given in September at our new student orientation. Audience are new students going in to our two computing programs.

Transcript

1. CAREERS IN COMPUTING 2019
2. SO WILL THIS PROGRAM HELP ME FIND A JOB?
3. YES!
4. EMPLOYMENT GROWTH IN COMPUTING SECTOR CONTINUES TO BE VERY STRONG
5. BUT DO I HAVE TO BE A … Programmer?
6. Programmer Software Engineer UX Designer Data Mining Specialist High School Computing Teacher Automation Engineer Network Administrator Game Developer Application Development Manager Database Administrator Web Developer Quality Assurance Specialist DevOps Manager Systems Analyst Cloud Product Manager ITS Manager Data Scientist Business Analyst Machine Learning Specialist SEO Consultant Software Architecture Consultant Operations Research Analyst Security Specialist Analytics Consultant Project Manager Disaster Recovery Specialist Computer Operations Manager Network Engineer NO!
7. WILL COMPUTING AT MRU GET ME THERE?
8. YES BUT WE HAVE TWO PATHS
9. BCIS CS
10. BCIS CSUT
11. COMPUTER SCIENCE IS THE CLASSIC COMPUTING DEGREE
12. OUR BCIS PROGRAM IS A NEWER BLEND OF THE IS AND IT DISCIPLINES
13. BUT REGARDLESS OF WHICH COMPUTING PROGRAM YOU TAKE YOU CAN END UP DOING A WIDE RANGE OF DIFFERENT WORK
14. COMPUTING JOB CATEGORIES
15. DEVELOPMENT
16. DATA
17. INFRASTRUCTURE
18. DESIGN
19. BUSINESS
20. MANAGEMENT
21. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR [2017-2022]
22. FINALLY, EMPLOYERS CONSISTENTLY SAY THEY ARE LOOKING FOR THE SAME KEY SKILLS, REGARDLESS OF THE COMPUTING JOB CATEGORY.
23. COMMUNICATION
24. SOCIABILITY
25. TEAM WORK
26. SELF-MOTIVATION
27. LEADERSHIP
28. HOW CAN YOU GAIN THESE SOFT SKILLS?
29. NON-COMPUTING COURSES
30. INVOLVE YOURSELF AT MRU
31. VOLUNTEER
32. QUESTIONS?
33. THANK YOU!
34. MINGWEI GONG BCIS ADVISOR PAUL POSPISIL CS-UT ADVISOR NOAH ARNEY WORK EXPERIENCE COORDINATOR
35. STUDENT PANEL WORK-TERM EXPERIENCES SUCCESS STORIES