Is Concentration and Career Analysis
IS Concentration and Career Analysis
Introduction Coming from a family that owns a small business, I decided to pursue a degree in business administration with concentration in management and marketing. By the time I graduated from college, I realized how important it is to implement information technology into a small business like ours. Our competitors have created online shopping websites which result in increasing sales and expanding territories. It would be cost insufficient for us to hire a professional firm to build our website and maintain it. I start thinking why not doing it myself and that is why I am here in DePaul College of Computing and Digital Media. After some research, I decided to join E-Commerce Technology program at the Graduate level with the hope of being able to build and maintain my business website after finishing the program. After completing the prerequisite phase, I realized the ECT program requires a lot of technical knowledge in coding and programming. Coming from a non-IT background, I am struggling to understand the programming language. So again, I am in the search for a new major but this time with the help of advising staff. I have some limitations when choosing a major in IT because some of my choices require an IT undergraduate degree which I do not have. I decided to go with Information System with concentration in Project Manager because it is less technical but enough to manage the IT side of the business. Unfortunately, my career seeking mission has not ended. I changed my mind again after taking IS 398 course. I have a better understanding on career analysis. As the professor said, for someone who has a business degree like me, with no work experiences in IT, it would be hard to get hired as project manager right after college. I should work my way up and because of that, business analysis concentration would be a better fit. My long term goal is to manage my own business but before that, I want to learn and
Introduction Coming from a family that owns a small business, I decided to pursue a degree in business administration with concentration in management and marketing. By the time I graduated from college, I realized how important it is to implement information technology into a small business like ours. Our competitors have created online shopping websites which result in increasing sales and expanding territories. It would be cost insufficient for us to hire a professional firm to build our website and maintain it. I start thinking why not doing it myself and that is why I am here in DePaul College of Computing and Digital Media. After some research, I decided to join E-Commerce Technology program at the Graduate level with the hope of being able to build and maintain my business website after finishing the program. After completing the prerequisite phase, I realized the ECT program requires a lot of technical knowledge in coding and programming. Coming from a non-IT background, I am struggling to understand the programming language. So again, I am in the search for a new major but this time with the help of advising staff. I have some limitations when choosing a major in IT because some of my choices require an IT undergraduate degree which I do not have. I decided to go with Information System with concentration in Project Manager because it is less technical but enough to manage the IT side of the business. Unfortunately, my career seeking mission has not ended. I changed my mind again after taking IS 398 course. I have a better understanding on career analysis. As the professor said, for someone who has a business degree like me, with no work experiences in IT, it would be hard to get hired as project manager right after college. I should work my way up and because of that, business analysis concentration would be a better fit. My long term goal is to manage my own business but before that, I want to learn and
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