Knowledge and Skills Influencing the Telecommunication and It Careers
INTRODUCTION
Today, telecommunication has becomes one of the most important things for people’s everyday life. With supports of new innovations and technology developments (such as microprocessors, computers, etc.) make the telecommunication and information technologies (IT) have continuously developed. The values of the Telecommunication and IT markets have grown very fast year by year. Therefore, the telecommunication and IT industries are considered as one of the best opportunity for both investment and career.
Telecommunication and IT jobs have great opportunities all over the world. The jobs also have an interesting salary (see Table II, Appendix I) which interest people (especially, student) to study about technologies that are used to do the Telecommunication and IT jobs. However, almost all universities in Thailand provide Telecommunication and IT courses. But the course from different university have different course syllabus and the syllabus must be simultaneously developed to mach up with the technology developments that make the graduated student from those universities would be desired by the Telecommunication and IT companies. Therefore, the student should know, what are the important skills and knowledge considered by those employers? This would help those universities and technology institutes develop their course syllabus and also help student to select the course and university and then have great career after they have graduated.
This is an exploratory research and its objectives are to answer the question above and try to find out important qualifications that make a candidate would be desired by the Top Telecommunication and IT companies. The data is collected from managers of the Top Telecommunication and IT companies by using a questionnaire (see Appendix II) and other resources such as literatures, reviews, and reports from believable sources. The data would be analyzed by matching the managers’ opinions and the literature
Today, telecommunication has becomes one of the most important things for people’s everyday life. With supports of new innovations and technology developments (such as microprocessors, computers, etc.) make the telecommunication and information technologies (IT) have continuously developed. The values of the Telecommunication and IT markets have grown very fast year by year. Therefore, the telecommunication and IT industries are considered as one of the best opportunity for both investment and career.
Telecommunication and IT jobs have great opportunities all over the world. The jobs also have an interesting salary (see Table II, Appendix I) which interest people (especially, student) to study about technologies that are used to do the Telecommunication and IT jobs. However, almost all universities in Thailand provide Telecommunication and IT courses. But the course from different university have different course syllabus and the syllabus must be simultaneously developed to mach up with the technology developments that make the graduated student from those universities would be desired by the Telecommunication and IT companies. Therefore, the student should know, what are the important skills and knowledge considered by those employers? This would help those universities and technology institutes develop their course syllabus and also help student to select the course and university and then have great career after they have graduated.
This is an exploratory research and its objectives are to answer the question above and try to find out important qualifications that make a candidate would be desired by the Top Telecommunication and IT companies. The data is collected from managers of the Top Telecommunication and IT companies by using a questionnaire (see Appendix II) and other resources such as literatures, reviews, and reports from believable sources. The data would be analyzed by matching the managers’ opinions and the literature