Careers Forum in ICT Tuesday 22nd May

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Careers Forum in ICT Tuesday 22nd May Patrick
Wilson BEC, Australian Computer
Society Professional Service Manager, Resonate
Solutions.
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The Challenge

• Background Future of ICT
• Skills shortage
• Scope, Trend of ICT Jobs,
• How ICT is embedded in the business
• Proliferation and Dependency of Business and
  Society on ICT
• Available Career Paths

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Career Paths

• Traditional
• Development and Delivery
• IT Assets and Infrastructure
• Maturing
• Project Management
• IT Service Management
• Nurture Stage
• Software Testing
• IT Enabled Business Change
• New Horizon
• IT Law
• Information Security

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How to Get There

• Do something you enjoy
• Understand the curriculum that courses offer
• Ask for opinion and help
• Getting that first job wont always be easy
• Soft skills are VERY important
• Experience matters
• Consider membership of a professional body