Title: Careers in PC Support

Activity 1 Title: Careers in PC Support Handout 1-1, page 1

You and your group must make a presentation to a career seeker who is interested in careers in the IT field but knows little about this field. Design a brochure that you can distribute to interested people like this career seeker.

Criteria for success:

 Careers are overviewed and accurately described  Sample salaries are given  Necessary training is clearly and accurately described  An idea of what a person can do after getting a few years of experience is discussed  Language is appropriate for the intended audience, in this case a non-technical audience  Language is accurate (spell checked and grammatically correct)  You must provide citations for where you got your facts—make sure you cite the websites and other resources that you use

Resources you can use: Mike Meyers’ A+ Guide to Managing & Troubleshooting PCs, Chapter 1 Websites such as:

Information Technology Association of America-- www.itaa.org -- occupational demand

Computer World online magazine -- www.computerworld.com -- salary surveys, occupational descriptions, certification discussion

Tech Republic -- www.techrepublic.com -- professional shop-talk. Take a look at the e- newsletters. There is one particularly on certification that will help you stay up to date on what’s happening in the world of certification.

America’s Career Info Net -- http://www.acinet.org/acinet/. Overviews of IT jobs and required skills

Occupational Outlook Handbook – http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm

http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos128.htm --computer operator job description

http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos110.htm --computer programmers description

http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos042.htm --computer systems analysts and engineers

Activity 1 Title: Careers in PC Support Handout 1-1, page 2

http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos155.htm --word processors, data entry job descriptions

Ohio IT Works – http://itworks-ohio.org/OCdefinit.htm – occupational descriptions.

Salaries www.computerworld.com (Computer World posts annual salary surveys and provides analysis of IT trends) http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layoutscripts/swzl_newsearch.asp (calculates salary for local regions. Lots of different IT jobs included with short job descriptions)

Training Sites http://www.computertrainingschools.com/

Job Search Sites www.dice.com