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22-02-2014 04:24 AM | ||
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Enterprise projects help to buff up the CV quite a bit due to the several integration issues which usually arise from such projects. Furthermore working with other teams always means communicating and influencing interfaces and designs principals. These are essential skills. My advise for anyone wanting to be a SA or a BA is to do at least 3 years of very technical work. You HAVE to get your hands dirty and do programming. However much you may/may not like it, programming is essential to structuring your thinking on how solutions look like and to size/estimate them. I have colleagues who are MIS (management information systems) grads who didn't really do technical work in their earlier years, their vendors are able to smoke them to hell and back. They end up getting frustrated and do not perform well. Burnout happens. Once you become a good SA or BA, management options always open up.... Read this guy's post here. It's a very insightful look at the softer side of IT in sg Dearth of technically inclined IT PM’s | singaporeprojectmanager |
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13-02-2014 10:23 PM | ||
Unregistered | I had an interview with them. Still thinking about it. Also interested to know more about the role and place. | |
12-02-2014 01:29 AM | ||
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12-02-2014 01:25 AM | ||
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I think I can answer your question quite well. I have been in the industry for around 8 years and yes, I do agree that you need to have a very solid technical grounding to make good progress being a system analyst/solution architect. I see many fresh grads take up softer roles in the beginning of their career without any solid foundation, and while the progressions might be faster at first, over time gaps in their knowledge show up and this is very apparent to managers and senior people. Doing ground level technical work will allow you to size up and evaluate solutions, your vendors and your team will not be able to bluff/smoke you that easily. Your brain will gain the ability to evaluate whether something makes sense and make rationalized technical assessments of solutions and problems. This skills is very important to climb up in the IT world. I am an IT manager right now in a hiring position now (who hires system analysts and business analysts), and I can tell you that I won't seriously consider a candidate who has not gone through at least 3 years of very technical work (programming is essential) |
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11-02-2014 01:20 AM | ||
alatus | How long has your friend been with the company? I wouldn't mind learning skills and knowledge such as proj mgt and enterprise software. In fact, I want to get my hands on those. For how long had your friend waited before he started doing the "more" interesting stuff? As for **** jobs, do you have some examples on this? I'm worried that the entire role is 90% **** jobs and only 10% useful stuff. lol | |
11-02-2014 12:32 AM | ||
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fyi, for now, ihis is one of the more friendly companies hiring less-technically-inclined fresh grads. |
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09-02-2014 04:40 PM | ||
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Any advice? Is this the saikang type of SA? |
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09-02-2014 03:09 PM | ||
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whatever the case, just make sure u know the duties u will be doing before u sign any contract. and do check if the company has any career progression path for u or if they simply just need some fresh blood to do the saikang the seniors unwillingly to do. (ie 24/7 standby for tech support) |
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09-02-2014 01:12 PM | ||
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