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Career Change

  • 22-07-2010 8:07am
    #1
    johnjoe99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭


    Currently working in a Financial Services Company and looking at a career change. I was thinking of going back to college and doing a Graduate Conversion Diploma in IT.
    I have a good few years experience in the Financial Services Industry both as an Anaylyst and in a Sales role but I don't want to be working in this type of Industry for next 30 years.
    Personally I could afford to take 12 months off and head back to college to complete a course in IT.
    Just looking for advice and peoples opinion on whats the best area of IT to concentrate. I was thinking of heading down the Business Analyst / Development role especially with the Analyst experience I have.
    I see from the Premier Recruitment survey IT roles are on the increase but I presume this is for people with experience but what is the situation like for new graduates


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    don't mean to be pessimistic but obviously it's trickier to do a career change in times like these where there's lots of experienced people out there looking for roles too - why would an employer take someone with no experience? best to try to leverage the experience that you already have. the business analyst route is not a bad idea because that job is not very exportable and you won't need to update your skills every few years like a lot of people in IT must do as one technology becomes less popular. although many business analysts specialise in an area of knowledge - e.g. insurance, funds etc. as again employers are demanding knowledge experts. If you want to combine your business analysis with IT skills - one IT skill that's always in demand and stays relatively constant is business intelligence report writing (e.g. oracle reports) combined with pl/sql work.


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