IT, better training or experience?
With the start of the school year many employees – including my own IT staff – are asking the question of whether or not an academic background. Many seniors, with extensive experience. Other juniors with little time in the area.
To this question there is no standard answer. It all depends on the time of each professional, technological moment that the market lives and their career planning. But one thing is fact: training did not replace experience. However, only the right professional experience in time, will not be enough.
Today the IT market is demanding on both counts. Vacancies available show that, always requiring specific knowledge and training for each vacancy. So as to monitor such a volatile and versatile market like that?
First, experience and training must go together to a professional be considered complete.
As much as higher education is not a difference for professionals in this area, regardless of their length of experience, the lack of it can lead to stagnation at some point in his career, after all, the theoretical and academic work can and should be applied the corporate life, while questions of corporate life can and should be brought to the academic life, for a complete other. That is often the corporate environment supplies some academic deficiencies, reinforcing distinct concepts and learning from other professionals greater feedback. And vice versa.
With experience and education the market is not easy, imagine without them? So to stand out in such a competitive market, as well as academic and market experience, two requisites are essential:
1 Contact another language, preferably English or Spanish! I see so many experienced and excellent academic training people who lose great opportunities for lack of a second language. But when I say speak another language is master it yourself, read, write and communicate. The such a “middleman” or “technical” make no difference in this so globalized market. With experience, education and mastery of languages, his career has a long and promising future.
2- Search specializations, certifications and a graduate. So you can direct your corporate life that range of options that is in IT.
If you search an area of management, know that after their graduate MBA is essential because you will give a managerial view of the area and a strategic view of IT, not to mention the networking you can do this type of course. In the case of choice for the management area, enters again the importance of the second language. Many multinational scope in Latin America hire Brazilian IT managers. So have a fluent Spanish language can be the difference in a possible promotion.
Are we, then, in the management area of the IT professional with experience, education, post-graduate and MBA, and in addition to English the command of Spanish. Enough to stand out in the market? Maybe. Every IT manager sees the need for compliance certifications. In this case, ITIL and COBIT are warmly welcomed.
Still talking about management, it is necessary that this professional has notion of other areas to provide the necessary support to them when needed. Therefore, the IT manager who has knowledge of finance, for example, and know the metrics of SOX or has knowledge in ISO audits and models, has stepped forward to work in a financial institution.
And there is the professional who is an expert or consultant in particular tool or technology. Here, in addition to essential possess English, a certification of this tool or technology is necessary to ensure their knowledge to the company. Obviously, the diversity of projects run this tool – that is, your experience – shows a differential that reaffirms its certification, but many companies require to see the diploma to prove the veracity of the information.
Gave notice that the market is changing and each case is different, right? Therefore, always be aware of trends to be updated with everything that happens again around and catch up quickly, either in a new version of the same tool that is already certified or a course management area outside of IT.
How many courses or certifications you have made in the past year? Get organized, make your goals this year. How many courses you need or want to do? How many certifications will take? What language will learn or improve? Go to college, a graduate, an MBA, speak English, Spanish, take certifications, etc. By the way, have you thought of a specialization in the United States or Europe?
Think exaggeration? Welcome to the IT market! What is new and highlighted today may not be tomorrow. So innovate, reinvent, search the day after tomorrow in today! After all, training and experience are important, but more important than that is what you do with them!
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