ITSS 4370 Spring24 Assignment 1 - Skills Assessment

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Copyright @2023, 2024 Bill Hefley. All Rights Reserved. ITSS 4370 – Spring 2024 – Assignment 1: Skills Assessment (50 points) Pre-Read (in eLearning): 1. Common IT Employability Skills (CompTIA) 2. Employability Skills (The Conference Board of Canada) 3. Workforce data from the Uptime Institute. The first link is a news article, the second two are source reports. The last item is data from this past year about infrastructure staffing. 1. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3301883/data-center/data-center-staff-are-aging- faster-than-the-equipment.html 2. Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2021 ( https://bit.ly/3TpxMyO ) (See pages 19-22 about skills) 3. https://drift-lp-66680075.drift.click/UptimeInstituteGlobalDataCenterSurvey2020 (See pages 24-27 about the workforce and skills) 4. Uptime Global Data Center Survey 2023 - Concerns about staffing:
Copyright @2023, 2024 Bill Hefley. All Rights Reserved. Assignment: a. Visit job posting web sites such as monster.com, indeed.com, dice.com or LinkedIn, or corporate jobs boards. Look at various jobs related to management of IT capabilities, including infrastructure management, cloud, and cybersecurity. Your choice of jobs should be focused on jobs relating to delivering, supporting and managing the IT infrastructure. They should be related to these CompTIA skills areas: 1. Infrastructure Administration 2. Information Security 3. IT Support (but not help desk) Any jobs that are focused on help desk, applications development/programming, including programming, development and engineering; software testing and quality assurance; strategic planning/business management, including product management, business analyst, or information management or data analyst (not focused on infrastructure, data center or cybersecurity) will not be accepted for credit. b. Find at least four different relevant job descriptions of jobs currently posted that interest you. c. Review the questions below. Provide a written response for each question. Be sure to include a References or Works Cited section for any documents or URLs that you use. Be sure to include the URLs for any jobs you use for this assignment. Questions: 1. What were your four jobs? (Include the link to or URL for the job descriptions you found). In your own words , describe the knowledge and skills that these jobs require. (5 points – note, merely copying lists of knowledge and skills from the job description will net zero points) 2. Identify which of the CompTIA skill areas each of these jobs fall under and explain why you characterized them the way you did. Address how the technical knowledge and skills desired for the position relate to the CompTIA skill areas. (10 points) 3. Examine the four jobs you’ve identified in light of the eleven sets of employability skills (Conference Board). From the Conference Board’s employability skills, identify which of the eleven you feel are the three most important employability skills needed to be successful in each of these positions and explain why they are important for that job. (10 points)
Copyright @2023, 2024 Bill Hefley. All Rights Reserved. 4. What do you need to do to prepare for these jobs? Identify any skill gaps or skills that you need to develop to attain each of those jobs. What could you do to develop those skills? (5 points) 5. What recent research or reporting or trends/percentage growth have you found online to prove your point that the jobs that you chose can be desirable employment? (5 points) 6. If a recession comes and budget cuts or layoffs start, what would be your method to upscale your technical skills to stand out in a competitive technology market? (5 points) 7. What are your thoughts about cloud since the entire world is moving towards using the cloud? Being an Computer Information Systems and Technology (ITS) student, how do you think your four selected jobs will be impacted by the cloud? Be sure to cite your research references (APA Format) to support your answer. (5 points) 8. What are your thoughts about Artificial Intelligence (AI) since it is gaining a lot of attention? Being an Information Technology and Systems (CISTech) student, do you think your four selected jobs can be replaced by AI? Be sure to cite your research references (APA Format) to support your answer. (5 points) Other Resources: • For those of you interested in positions relating to cybersecurity and IT, this new tool may be useful to you: https://cybersecurity.isaca.org/csx-career-tool • Here are links to soft skills data that may be helpful to you: https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/trends-and-research/2016/most-indemand-soft- skills https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/trends-and-research/2020/most-in-demand- hard-and-soft-skills • And for those of you who want to go beyond the assignment and start the project of looking for that internship or permanent job, here's some good advice on how to approach that project: https://www.ivyexec.com/executive-insights/2016/boost-your-job-search/ • Here's a page with lots of resources to help you as you prepare your resume: https://jindal.utdallas.edu/career-management-center/student-resources/#02-resume-guidelines Grading Criteria: Your assignment will be assessed using the following criteria. Content : the writing showed that you understood the questions the instructor asked, you have delivered a well-written response.
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Copyright @2023, 2024 Bill Hefley. All Rights Reserved. Instructions : you followed all the instructions. Formatting : the document is professional and formatted correctly. The assignment will specify the accepted length of the paper. You should always include your name on the assignment as well as the title of the assignment. Citations and References : If you used external references, the full reference is in the proper format with the necessary information. You cited those references appropriately within the content of your paper. If you use external references, you MUST include the full reference. You also need to cite the source within your paper. For citations, you can either directly quote the source when the author has something profound to say or you can reword the information from the source when the author has a unique idea. In either case, give credit to the author for the quotation or the unique idea but the bulk of your paper should be you expounding on the author’s ideas with your own words and ideas. Do not over-cite your paper. You should research the topic, process the information you learn, present your response to the assignment in your own words, and support that response with citations from your sources. Do not cite every sentence/paragraph of your assignment. Spelling and Grammar : there are few or no spelling or grammar errors. Everyone makes mistakes; therefore, you will receive full points if there are minimal spelling and grammar errors. Use correct spelling and grammar. The instructor does check for spelling and grammatical errors. The instructor will not correct spelling and grammar for you, but you will lose points if it is not correct.

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