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I'm not quite sure if I want to finish a 4 year degree, I really want to start working, and I was just wondering what careers I could enter with my associates degree. I'm not saying I'll never get my bachelors, but school is really wearing me out.
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I have a 4 year CIS degree.
The company I work for has a minimum requirement of a 4 year degree and a 3.0 - 3.5 GPA. The issue that you will find right now is that there are 50-100 applicants for every job posting in IT. Many of these folks have experience, certifications and 4 year Bachelors degree. Consequently, Associates degree holders and High School only grads will often not ever get a call for an interview.
Now this is not to say that you will not find a job but that it will take you longer and it will likely be a very low paid position.
One way to go is to finish up your Associates and call around to local colleges to see if any have a degree completion night program. These programs are usually around 14 months of night classes and at the end they give you a Bachelors degree in your field. So that would let you complete in 14 months instead of 2 years and you could work in the daytime hours. This is what I did.
As far as what careers you can enter with an Associates - you basically can do anything a 4 year Bachelors degree holder can do - if you can presuade an employer to hire you. Here is a short list:
Computer Technician, Service Center Coordinator, Help Desk Staff, Storage Administrator, Network Administrator, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Enterprise Administrator, Active Directory Administrator, Exchange and Messaging Administrator, Backup Administrator, Disaster Recovery Specialist, Database Administrator, Computing Security Specialist, Corporate IT Acquisition Specialist and Data Center Administrator, just to name a few.
In a small business the list above might be one or two people doing all these jobs. In a large Enterprise environment this could be hundreds of people.
Generally, employers don't hire college grads because of what they know or what they learned in school. It is common knowledge that school course in a tech field will always be out of date by several years at best. A 4 year degree (and to a lesser extent a 2 year degree) tells them 2 important things about you:
1. You are teachable. Most employers are going to train you to do things their way anyway. They realize that college textbooks are usually way out of date and so the content you learned is less of a concern to them. They really want to know if they can train you and a degree indicates that you can be taught.
2. You will complete what you start. The world is full of people that start things but never finish them and employers would prefer people that will finish what they start. A 4 year degree and even a 2 year degree gives them a good idea that you will complete what you start.
I've given you links to some salary studies that show the differences in earnings for different educational levels.
Best wishes!
I have a 4 year CIS degree.
The company I work for has a minimum requirement of a 4 year degree and a 3.0 - 3.5 GPA. The issue that you will find right now is that there are 50-100 applicants for every job posting in IT. Many of these folks have experience, certifications and 4 year Bachelors degree. Consequently, Associates degree holders and High School only grads will often not ever get a call for an interview.
Now this is not to say that you will not find a job but that it will take you longer and it will likely be a very low paid position.
One way to go is to finish up your Associates and call around to local colleges to see if any have a degree completion night program. These programs are usually around 14 months of night classes and at the end they give you a Bachelors degree in your field. So that would let you complete in 14 months instead of 2 years and you could work in the daytime hours. This is what I did.
As far as what careers you can enter with an Associates - you basically can do anything a 4 year Bachelors degree holder can do - if you can presuade an employer to hire you. Here is a short list:
Computer Technician, Service Center Coordinator, Help Desk Staff, Storage Administrator, Network Administrator, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Enterprise Administrator, Active Directory Administrator, Exchange and Messaging Administrator, Backup Administrator, Disaster Recovery Specialist, Database Administrator, Computing Security Specialist, Corporate IT Acquisition Specialist and Data Center Administrator, just to name a few.
In a small business the list above might be one or two people doing all these jobs. In a large Enterprise environment this could be hundreds of people.
Generally, employers don't hire college grads because of what they know or what they learned in school. It is common knowledge that school course in a tech field will always be out of date by several years at best. A 4 year degree (and to a lesser extent a 2 year degree) tells them 2 important things about you:
1. You are teachable. Most employers are going to train you to do things their way anyway. They realize that college textbooks are usually way out of date and so the content you learned is less of a concern to them. They really want to know if they can train you and a degree indicates that you can be taught.
2. You will complete what you start. The world is full of people that start things but never finish them and employers would prefer people that will finish what they start. A 4 year degree and even a 2 year degree gives them a good idea that you will complete what you start.
I've given you links to some salary studies that show the differences in earnings for different educational levels.
Best wishes!
What kind of careers could I do with this Computer Information Systems degree?
Q. http://www.ivytech.edu/computerinformationsystems/
besides the ones listed of course, would you say this a good degree to go to school for?
whats the difference between this and information technology? which is better?
besides the ones listed of course, would you say this a good degree to go to school for?
whats the difference between this and information technology? which is better?
Answer
I highly recommend this degree, but it isn't exactly for everyone. As technology advances as a whole, the demand tends to increase for this line of work regardless of what's going on in the rest of the economy.
There are dozens of different ways you can go with an IS degree, but here are some of the popular careers:
Software Engineer
Web Developer
Project Manager
Database Administrator
Data Network Security Administrator
Technical Consultant
You certainly will need to do some in depth research to find out what best fits your skills. Sometimes it takes actual professional experience to find your niche. I'd take advantage of any internship/co-op opportunities possible while in school.
Information Systems and Information Technology are very commonly misunderstood. Neither one could be considered "better." IT actually falls under the umbrella that is IS. A professor once told me to think of Information Systems in its simplest form as a paper and a pencil. Separate they are both only tools, but together they make a system. IS is the same idea just usually much more complex. Information Technology refers to the technology used within Information Systems. Even in professional environments, these two terms are frequently mistaken as synonyms.
I hope this helps, and best of luck with your education and job search!
I highly recommend this degree, but it isn't exactly for everyone. As technology advances as a whole, the demand tends to increase for this line of work regardless of what's going on in the rest of the economy.
There are dozens of different ways you can go with an IS degree, but here are some of the popular careers:
Software Engineer
Web Developer
Project Manager
Database Administrator
Data Network Security Administrator
Technical Consultant
You certainly will need to do some in depth research to find out what best fits your skills. Sometimes it takes actual professional experience to find your niche. I'd take advantage of any internship/co-op opportunities possible while in school.
Information Systems and Information Technology are very commonly misunderstood. Neither one could be considered "better." IT actually falls under the umbrella that is IS. A professor once told me to think of Information Systems in its simplest form as a paper and a pencil. Separate they are both only tools, but together they make a system. IS is the same idea just usually much more complex. Information Technology refers to the technology used within Information Systems. Even in professional environments, these two terms are frequently mistaken as synonyms.
I hope this helps, and best of luck with your education and job search!
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