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SashatheMan
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i am studying it. where do u look for getting a job as an undergraduate in the IT industry. ?copious said:
lol howie, u having a 'lunch-break' at 2 something?
I'm studying IT. hopefully last year.
to look for jobs, look anywhere, ask anyone.
doesn't have to be a specific IT company. Just as long as there's IT work involved somewhere, go for it.
I'm studying IT. hopefully last year.
to look for jobs, look anywhere, ask anyone.
doesn't have to be a specific IT company. Just as long as there's IT work involved somewhere, go for it.
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timbk2
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Studying/workin... in 4th year
LeftrightOut
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Studied IT, worked IT, teaching IT.
How undergraduate are we talking? Do you mean where do you look for grad positions when you're nearly done or where to find work with essentially no qualifications?
You would have been home free if you were doing IT in the early to late 90s, then it became a bit of a crap industry, now it's picking up a little because people are realising you can't outsource everything and that computer systems don't create/run themselves.
How undergraduate are we talking? Do you mean where do you look for grad positions when you're nearly done or where to find work with essentially no qualifications?
You would have been home free if you were doing IT in the early to late 90s, then it became a bit of a crap industry, now it's picking up a little because people are realising you can't outsource everything and that computer systems don't create/run themselves.
LeftrightOut
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Well there were several factors contributing to it all building up and bursting.Korn said:
There was the dot com goldrush when the Internet became viable to use as a business tool, then the WWW 91 onwards.
Then you had Y2K surfacing towards the end that spawned a bit of a grab for cash.
Then after companies realised things could be done more cheaply they started outsourcing en-masse causing more job losses. This was also aroudn the time most comapnies (and people) woke up to the fact that the whole Y2K thing was a "sham" because surprise surprise nothing major happened (when systems were patched). As a result a lot of overpaid IT workers started getting the sack and a lot of IT companies with less than sound business plans went under as the cashflow never came through.
In Australia this was compounded further with the introduction of the GST and the push by Federal Departments to get people starting to use electronic accounting methods.
The mass take up of PCs in the home and schools lead to a major drop in computer prices (supply/demand) which lead to a drop in margins for various businesses, not to mention the fact that online only and telephone shops with low overheads were giving better deals (Dell for example) which lead to fiercer competition and more drop outs of high end manufacturers. As a result of the increase in competition, R&D went up fuelled further by dot com funding.
The standardisation on x86 architecture for home use meant some of the different PC manufacturers tried to diversify, the 486 onwards power struggle between AMD and Intel also lead to a market segmentation and as a result a greater range of options for a variety of hardware needs. It would be a very different landscape had AMD not decided to brand their own x86 chips.
Large mergers occured and will continue to do so, and with mergers, come layoffs. The number and size of mergers towards the end of the bubble became ridiculous with thousands being laid off as 2 companies decided to blend into one. Take AOL/Time/Warner Brothers for example, huge hype, look where they are now.
So to say the It industry has undergone significant change in the past 15 years is an understatement
whether the next 15 will be as intensive I seriously doubt it. Which is good for stability but not extreme profitability, that is to say, you are more likely to keep your job for a while but not make much money at it, whereas in the dot com boom you'd jump on a startup, hope they made it big and then cash out, if they failed oh well there was always another one around the corner.What uni do you goto? I know that at UTS, there are alot of IT jobs advertised through the IT faculty jobs database and they range from grad positions to casual support roles. It's also good to check on companies you know of or are interested in. Alot of the time they have a careers/employment section which regularly advertises vacancies.
anti
aww.. baby raccoon ^^
It also depends on what area of IT you are interested in. It's not hard to get a data entry job which pays fine but is i n c r e d i b l y boring
I can assure you that the industry is still looking for IT professionals - just that universities have overbudgeted in the past and they're suffering for it now (ie. lower course intakes at the moment).
And yes, I'm studying in IT.. worked in the wonderful corporate world for the last six months.
I can assure you that the industry is still looking for IT professionals - just that universities have overbudgeted in the past and they're suffering for it now (ie. lower course intakes at the moment).
And yes, I'm studying in IT.. worked in the wonderful corporate world for the last six months.
