CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter TIF: Chief Operating Officer, Lifelong Learning, Offshoring

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Tech in focus #4: careers in it. Most jobs in the following three categories will stay put: 1) customer interaction, 2) enablers, 3) infrastructure jobs. Women are in high demand in it departments. You don"t need to be a math genius. Challenges of it careers: stress, women are still the minority, lifelong learning is required. Choosing your realm of it: chief information officer (cio, has overall responsibility for the development, implementation, and maintenance of information systems and its infrastructure, development and integration, technical services, chief operating officer (coo) System analysts: gather information from end users about problems and existing information systems: document systems and propose solutions to problems, work with programmers during the development phase to design appropriate programs to solve the problem at hand. Programmers: attend meetings to document user needs: work closely with system analysts during the design phase, essential to have a strong math background.