A couple of years ago IoT was hot and happening. Just like Big Data. Potential students in the industry (and teachers) suddenly were facing a broad range technologies and skills that were all part of the IoT umbrella. There is connectivity at various levels (LoraWan, 5G etc for connected devices, vs fiberoptics etc in datacenters). The same goes for programming skills C++ for microcontrollers vs Go, Python and DotNet in datacenters. And inside datacenters there is a choice between bare metal, Virtual Machines and containers, or combinations of these. Communication has changed as well. ‘Push’ technology and message queues are popular, even monitoring is done different nowadays. Pretty soon people started to talk about T shaped learning, meaning that you have to know a bit about everything and specialise in certain fields.
So even if you know that you want to be in the IT industry you have a lot to choose from, but you have to be aware that you can choose and to find out where you want to become a specialist. Anything that helps people to discover their affinity is welcome. Cheers, Marco > On 12 Aug 2021, at 15:04, Evan Leibovitch via lpi-examdev > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi again. > > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 06:55, Ottavio Caruso > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > There are people like me who _did_ have a career in IT ages ago and had to > have a long break (due to either bad luck or their own fault) and are trying > to get back into the industry. > > Your situation is already too advanced for StartIT, because you already chose > IT as a career path (and then stepped away for a while). > > StartIT is designed for people who don't know if they want a career in IT, or > engineering, or medicine, or chemistry, or legal etc. > > They will have to start basically from scratch because, as you know, > recruiters are almost always IT- or Open Source- illiterate and they have no > clue of what to make of your "open source evangelism" back 15-20 years ago. > > They have no clue because "evangelism" isn't typically a technical job skill, > in a business that often is part of marketing rather than IT operations. Bob > Young, the founder of Red Hat, was one of the best evangelists the FOSS world > has known, yet he'd be lost at a shell prompt. > > If I sound negative, it's because I am. It hurts when you think you have > skills but you can't prove them or build upon them, or maybe I don't really > have skills and am just overestimating myself. > > That's supposedly the role of the certifications, to prove you have the > skills that employers demand. > > It's also a matter of matching the skills you have to the ones that are in > demand today. You could be the best Fortran programmer or Xenix sysadmin in > the world, but the number of your potential employers is small and shrinking > (though if you found those employers you might be highly prized among them > because that skill is also becoming more rare along with the demand). > > Cheers, > > > -- > Evan Leibovitch > Director of Community Development > Linux Professional Institute > Toronto, Canada > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
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