[LINK] ICT Job Profiles

Marghanita da Cruz marghanita at ramin.com.au
Thu Jan 16 09:45:12 AEDT 2014


An excellent initiative by the ACS!

Though, an advocate of ICT in preference to IT - I wonder whether IT is still more recognised 
outside and possibly inside UN/Government Bureacracies.

Marghanita

Tom Worthington wrote:
> The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has released an "ICT Skills White 
> Paper: Common ICT Job Profiles & Indicators of Skills Mobility" (30 
> December 2013). This may be of interest for those designing training and 
> education to help someone get from one job category to another: 
> http://www.acs.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/26528/ICT-Skills-White-Paper-Common-Job-Profiles-and-Skills-Mobility-30-Dec-2013.pdf
> 
> As an addition to its annual employment survey, last year the ACS asked 
> respondents to select up to skills they use in their work section. The 
> skills definitions they were provided with are from the Skills Framework 
> for the Information Age (SFIA). The results were distilled down to 25 
> ICT job descriptions, at five of SFIA's levels.
> 
> The top ten most common job categories, starting with the most common, were:
> 
>   1. ICT Consultant
>   2. ICT Manager
>   3. Software Engineer
>   4. Database Administrator
>   5. Project Manager
>   6. Business Analyst
>   7. ICT Architect
>   8. Systems Administrator
>   9. Analyst Programmer
> 10. Developer Programmer
> 
> The paper gives a one page summary for each of the 25 jobs.
> 
> 


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Marghanita da Cruz
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