Looking at a new job, probably in IT, but which one...
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I've been working at the same, corporation owned company for the past 4 years, and in that time I've moved myself from a boggo-standard CADCAM operator person, to be more involved with development of a couple of major IT projects within the (medium sized) company. I have knowledge and several years experience of MS Acces, Excel, VBA, VB6 and .NET. Recently I've become bored of not being able to push myself and learn developing technologies. My company has nothing to do with IT (obvious from the current state of their IT systems), and I'm also a little sick of being in this IT "hole".
Also, in the past couple of years I've got involved in a forum, taking on pretty much all of the web development and site hosting work, learning HTML, PHP, MySQL, CSS on the way. I wouldn't call myself an advanced person in web development, but I know enough to hold my own and keep the website looking smart, and one step ahead of our competitors.
I've recently started thinking that I need a change of job, maybe even career. I'm either thinking system development or web development. I'm really interested in getting into financial IT work, getting paid lots of money by one of the investment banks, etc. I believe its hard work, but I'm a natural workaholic, so I'm ok with that, I've just no idea how to get into it?
Maybe web development would be better? Less money, but more jobs going local to me, but I'm worried that it wouldn't lead on to anything?
Help!
Also, in the past couple of years I've got involved in a forum, taking on pretty much all of the web development and site hosting work, learning HTML, PHP, MySQL, CSS on the way. I wouldn't call myself an advanced person in web development, but I know enough to hold my own and keep the website looking smart, and one step ahead of our competitors.
I've recently started thinking that I need a change of job, maybe even career. I'm either thinking system development or web development. I'm really interested in getting into financial IT work, getting paid lots of money by one of the investment banks, etc. I believe its hard work, but I'm a natural workaholic, so I'm ok with that, I've just no idea how to get into it?
Maybe web development would be better? Less money, but more jobs going local to me, but I'm worried that it wouldn't lead on to anything?
Help!
Pick up skills in Microsoft Dynamics, (ie) CRM and Sharepoint. That will pay well and leverage your existing skills.
Sharepoint is big business. You can download and play for it for free, use vmware server or something to run your machines up on.
If you can make a public website with it and put it in your cv then you are set!
Checkout jobserve.com and search for sharepoint or microsoft crm. Both require web development skills. Both are core business applications.
Sharepoint is big business. You can download and play for it for free, use vmware server or something to run your machines up on.
If you can make a public website with it and put it in your cv then you are set!
Checkout jobserve.com and search for sharepoint or microsoft crm. Both require web development skills. Both are core business applications.
At this moment in time Banks are not paying the big bucks, you'll find it's more smaller more dynamic companies that are.
I work in IT recruitment and on the perm and contracting side it's certainly taken a hit with the credit crunch but instead we've found our other clients have got busier.
If it was me personally I would go with the one you enjoy most.
I work in IT recruitment and on the perm and contracting side it's certainly taken a hit with the credit crunch but instead we've found our other clients have got busier.
If it was me personally I would go with the one you enjoy most.
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