Comparing
different job roles within IT
As a group, me and my partner chose 3 different job roles
within IT and a list of different requirements that are needed to be strong in
that role. The 3 different jobs we chose where:
·
Computer games designer
·
Web designer
·
Network engineer
We decided to look
into the different key requirements that would help them get into the job,
looking at the; Skills, attributes, income and finally qualifications. However
looking at the different requirements I noticed that for the job roles there
where similarities and differences and that’s what I will discuss.
First of all the
skills needed are actually all quite similar. They all need basic level of
skills in IT such as the knowledge of using programs such as HTML and ASP. Between
a computer games designer and a web designer is similar as they both require a
broad imagination to think off the spot of a new idea for the business. However
a difference would be that for the network engineer you need to be able to have
deep prioritising skills to know what is to be done when; this will be needed
for the other two but probably in enough detail. Finally I feel that as a whole
they all need to be creative as all three jobs are to think from the top of the
head to be able to work something out like a solution or a new idea.
For the attributes, again this is similar to skills where as
they all need to be able to think off the tops of their heads to be able to
work professionally in the work force. However there would be a difference in
network engineer and the computer games designer, as they are two completely
jobs in terms of IT. The computer games designer would need to have attributes
with story telling and planning, to be able to set out a story for the computer
game to follow. But with a network engineer, they would need to have good flexibly
to be able to work around problems and adapt to different jobs day by day.
Income is the one where they are the most similar. However the
web designer as a senior professional, they would get less income as the
seniors in both computer games designing and network engineering, which was
very interesting. But other than that they are very tight and close comparing
them to each other with the entrants all being around £15,000 a year income.
The qualifications are all fairly similar too. In all a
degree in that specific company would all be needed with the obvious GCSE
results gained from the start. Of course the difference would be that they
would be earning degree in that certain field. Where the web designer would
obviously go down the route of a course based in web development and multimedia
design, the network engineer would look towards the computer networks programs
and the internet communications.
