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  • 07-07-2004 5:17pm
    #1
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭


    I left college around June last year after completing a Commerce Degree and a H.Dip in Systems Analysis. Since then, I've been working as a support consultant on a pretty major Financial Management System / ERP suite. I'd prefer to be involved with development though, thanks to a poorly run postgrad my only programming experience amounts to intermediate VB (as in I can connect a program to a VB database Woop dee doo) and a crash course in JAVA which isn't nearly enough to even think about applying for a job working with it. I'm pretty handy with databases but don't have a DBA so I'm kinda weighing up my options at the moment. As I see them:

    * hang on here and put in another 2 years or so to become an implementation consultant
    * do a DBA
    * do some form of professional qualifications in a decent programming language/enhance my JAVA

    Any other possibilities/ideas?


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  • #2
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    At the moment there only seems to be graduate development roles or experienced roles where you need 3-5yrs experience and a pretty broad skillset. Expect to have to pass a very specific technical exam for most development roles even as a contractor, development or support.

    In my recent experience intermediate development roles are very few at the moment. Even then they expect a fair amount of experience. For example if it was a VB role you'd need VB. COM+, IIS, ASP, JS, MS SQL, Access, HTML/DHTML Transact SQL, TCP/IP, XML/XSL. The Java roles seem to similarly detailed.

    With commerce and some IT experience if I was you I'd be looking towards Business Analysis roles. Many of which require that mix and in the long run have earning potential as good if not better than a developer would have. However they can look for experience in data modelling, analysis, statistics, reporting, UML etc.

    The market seems to be picking up though, so there maybe more roles on offer from now on.


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