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Careers in E-Commerce
& Information Systems
A 21st Century Career
For any career these days, you'll need these general skills:
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Cyberspace literacy - Learn how to get the right results quickly
and use them effectively.
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Communications - Oral and written communication skills are more
important than ever.
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Change management - How to initiate change that doesn't quickly
turn into chaos.
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Practical reasoning - Thinking 'outside the box.'
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Procedural training for specific jobs - Education in what you want
to do.
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Theoretical knowledge in a specific field - Background for your
entire career.
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Learning to evolve - Learning how to learn, adapt and grow
continuously.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers"
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
Just
For Fun: Other
Predictions on Technology
Planning the Development of Experience
Think of yourself as a "company of one." Successful businesses,
including yours, must define a vision, goals, objectives, milestones and
"pebbles." Once you've defined where you're going, you can build
a game plan for getting there, and establish the markers that measure your
progress.
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Vision
A vision is the dream you want to achieve. It's your highest, most
general statement about where you're going and how you'll get there.
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Goals
Goals are things you want to achieve long term.
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Objectives, Milestones, Pebbles
Each of these are ways to organize the path to your goal into smaller and
smaller pieces, until the last bit might be week-to-week accomplishments
that move you toward your goal. These should be specific, hard target
items, easy to measure when successful.
From Cybercareers by M. Morris and P. Massie
For more professional and career strategies, click
here
Networking & Advanced Certification Opportunities through
Professional Organizations
. . .A sampling
Seattle Network
Seattle Internet
User's Group
Internet
Professionals Northwest
American Society for
Information Science
HTML Writers Guild
Association of
Internet Professionals
Women in Technology
International
World Wide Web Artist
Consortium
Microsoft
Training and Certification
Puget Sound Networking
Directory
Salary Information:
National salary Information is available on http://salary.com
or http://www.wageweb.com/,
and http://jobstar.org/index.htm
State of
Washington detailed salary information for
Washington at:
http://www.workforceexplorer.com/?PAGEID=67&SUBID=117
Occupational Outlook
Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook by the US Dept of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
is a nationally recognized source of career information. Search the site by job
title or keyword. Below is just a few of the pages under the keyword
"computer."
Computer and
Information Systems Managers
Computer
and Data Processing Services
Computer
Support Specialists and Systems Administrators
Economists
and Market and Survey Researchers
Management
Analysts
Operations Research
Analysts
Systems
Analysts, Computer Scientists, and Database Administrators
To find out more about the duties and qualifications of specific jobs in
E-Commerce and Information Systems, go to The Seattle Times online classifieds and enter a search
for ecommerce, web, internet, or intranet.
Their web site is: http://classifieds.nwsource.com/job/
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