ISDS Careers and Certification

Ability to understand how to use a computer effectively

• Conducted via Web cams and the Internet
• Benefits include:
• Savings in time and money
• Ability to tape the interview for other screeners
• Accommodates different time zones or accessibility

Individual working with all forms of IT and functions

Outsourcing and Labor dumping

where one company contracts with another company to have services performed that could have been done by employees

flooding the labor market with foreign workers

• Predicted to show the most growth
• Software engineering
• Network systems analysis
• Data communication

• Other IT jobs for the future
• Computer support
• System administration
• System analysis
• Database administration
• Security support

Functional area within a company or university responsible for managing information technology and systems

Transfer of labor from workers in one country to workers in another

Job categories affected—call centers and computer programming

Some U.S. companies question cost saving because of communication and cultural inconsistencies

• Study of storage, change, and transfer of information
• Programs focus on programming languages and mathematics
• Requires theoretical and analytical skills

• Focuses on practical applications of information systems and technology
• Important knowledge areas
• •Finance
• •Marketing
• Requires good communication and interpersonal skills

• Uses interdisciplinary approach
• •People
• •Organization
• •Technologies
• Requires strong project management skills

• Involves upgrading, managing, and modifying computer programs
• Requires strong:
• •Interpersonal skills
• •Programming skills
• •Business skills
• •System analysis skills

Focuses on cutting-edge communication and digital circuit design

• oKey areas of interest—hardware design
• •Robotics
• •Solid-state,mobile, and embedded technology
• •Integrated circuits
• •Computer chips

• oChanges in technology
• oChanges in business

• Business skills—hard and soft
• Technical knowledge

• People related
• •Communication
• •Analytical/research
• •Teamwork
• •Project management
• •Business acumen

• Honesty/integrity/morality
• Dedicated/hard working/tenacious
• Dependable/reliable/professional
• Self-confident/self-motivated

• Process related
• Networking
• Web development

• Networking
• Microsoft products
• Linux
• TCP/IP
• Oracle
• AJAX
• Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP systems)

Combines computers and medical expertise to simulate a long-distance house call

Expansion of telemedicine that extends services to the preventive side of medicine

• Skills and knowledge assessment process
• Organized by computer industry vendors and professional associations

• Benefits
• •Provides benchmark to assess skills
• •May lead to higher salary offers
• •Helps match applicant’s skill set with employer job requirements

Narrow scope of information may be emphasized

Much time and work dedicated to vendor-specific technology that may change or may be less valuable in the future

• Employee may have narrow training
• Knowledge in only one area