The other day, I received a call from a state representative regarding information posted on my website. They asked me about its content. The woman on the phone was totally uncommunicative, arrogant and oblivious to the answers given to her questions.
After being formally unemployed for over a year, the last thing I wanted was to jeopardize my UC benefits. The content on my website(s) is not only intended to convey insightful information to visitors, but also to showcase my particular skills and talents. The woman had nothing. The more she talked, defiantly, the more obvious it became that she wasn’t an IT person. Her phone cadence ended with her assuring me of the next follow-up contact from an investigator.
The content on the site not only speaks for itself, but it is very clear that it does not generate income for my personal benefit. However, the generation of income from family, friends and acquaintances is the only benefit for the business and the activities related to those particular people. The data published is primarily intended to assist individuals in current and past educational events and job connections. The site also helps me in my job search and exposure to potential employers. The intention is to make an impression.
Computer science students of color are severely underrepresented in the IT workforce.
People of color with degrees are the most underrepresented group prepared for IT jobs in the information technology industry. The turnout shows serious dissent for higher education, as well as with the IT industry. The limited number of IT workers is not just limited to people of color. The attraction and retention by employers of a particular group represents a significant shortfall for the information technology workforce. Underrepresented groups, ie, African Americans, Latin Americans, women, and older workers would benefit profoundly from the expanding needs of the information technology workforce. The 1998 report by Herman D. Hughes, a professor at Michigan State University, said: “Studies have shown that if these underrepresented groups fully participated in the IT workforce, there would be no IT workforce shortage.
“New legislation, White House policy, and a cybersecurity czar should help the situation. A lack of centralized leadership has hampered the sharing of vulnerability information, and uncertainty about government security policy remains. to do to open up data silos,” according to Mr. J. Nicholas Hoover of TechWeb.com.
Federal agencies reported that various intelligence agencies had information on the US attackers on September 9, 2001. This miscommunication faux pas helped close gaps in information sharing between these relevant agencies. Mr. Hoover also said that no agency had all the necessary pieces for a complete information package. However, “there have been advances since then, from multi-agency information sharing agreements to the adoption of wikis and blogs.” While gaps and gaps remain, terrorism information sharing has become a government-wide approach to data sharing.
“Information sharing mandates and training programs have been implemented by less than half of the affected agencies,” says Hoover. The Markle Foundation finds that “old clothes are hard to die for!” All agencies are required to disclose the details of their stimulus spending as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This includes all the states involved and the jobs that have been created. The Treasury Department seeks consistency in its financial reporting with the treasury accounts of the entire government. The improvement within the White House Office of Management and Budget is expected to create cohesive financial management systems in its improvement efforts, according to the Hoovers report.
The question is why redundant, non-interoperable systems are still normal within government agencies? Hoover says, “Many agencies insist on maintaining their independence, and those that want to open up face technical obstacles to sharing information.” He cites the Department of Defense as an example. The military branches are reluctant to use the Defense Information Services Agency (DISA) or the Defense Business Transformation Agency (BTA).
Siloed information has proven to be DOD’s biggest challenge as modernization of departmental business systems slows, as recorded by the Government Accountability Office. Over 3,000 disparate financial systems are being replaced or connected to 12 ERP systems (short for enterprise resource planning, a business management system that integrates all facets of the business, including planning, manufacturing, sales, and marketing). Increasingly popular, software applications have emerged to help business managers implement ERP in business activities such as inventory control, order tracking, customer service, finance, and human resources.) with a billion-dollar spending allocation. annual dollars. Countless interfaces require the connectivity of reconciliation errors within these government systems.
“It’s clear that the future of information technology is inextricably linked to preparing underrepresented students,” says Bob Reed, vice president of diversity and inclusion for Cingular Wireless Systems, as reported by Mr. Fred Green Jr., technology writer for NNPA. . “The path to success begins long before a potential employee completes a job application.”
This reporter’s peer review has spanned more than 10 years. Attend Philadelphia Community College, beginning in the fall of 1996 with Management and Technical Studies and Berean Institute College of Business Administration and Computer Science in Philadelphia PA, accredited by: The Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology, etc. The last institution is an “HBCU” (Historical Black Colleges and Universities).
A challenge was given to three HBCU campuses. The three historic universities were Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA; North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC; and the University of Florida at Tallahassee. Business students from all three campuses were tasked with the development, implementation, and marketing plan to reach out to their fellow campus members and faculty. Cingular Wireless Systems rose to this challenge, Mr. Green says. Rewards are scholarships, grants, and company products. The Cingular Challenge provides an opportunity for business students to present their skills in displaying proficient balance and theory with concepts of teamwork, as well as individual creativity. (The results of the challenge will be announced at a later date.)
Employers are constantly looking for new skills, training and learning. Why is it so difficult for IT and BI (Information Technology and Business Intelligence) students to get the jobs and careers they are looking for? (Especially within government agencies!) Why are entry-level jobs riddled with red tape when applicants obviously have the skills and abilities to perform IT tasks and responsibilities?
An IT manpower shortage? Please!
Skilled IT workers tend not to have their skills in a dormant format. They (us) need to keep up with trends and changes in information. We are constantly encouraged to continue educational activities even when costs have risen to levels unaffordable for the average person. We are encouraged to create and maintain online profiles and resumes that attract employer visits. We are encouraged to display our skills and talents on the internet, only to have them scrutinized, ridiculed, disrespected, misunderstood and misunderstood. Our competition is not from our country, and yet we are constantly encouraged while discouraged from achieving our government’s goals: “The American Dream!”
The competition constantly nurtures your homegrown (and not homegrown, but back home) trained and competent talents that put your IT productions on greater heights! That particular talent (in most cases) can’t stand the pressures of financial stress, not to mention doctors, with the knowledge that the nurtured talent is intent on serving the government they call home… country: so least one for two years. The competition looks at us and smiles. Competition grows with ever-changing technology trends and changes as we sit back and yell “IT manpower shortage!”
The competition goes home with the trophy and we are ranked sixth and seventh in the global IT and BI platform competition. Take a look at Beta Max, VCR, home computer(s), electronics, etc. Isn’t it time for us to ride high in the saddle, to be first, to lead? We did it with the Presidency, right? So why can’t we find a way to fill the “IT workforce shortage” and utilize all our talent… throughout the land of the free… the home of the brave? Inclusion is the only way to total and utter freedom and liberation from our technological shackles. We don’t have to settle for runner-up either!
Are employers viewing your website, profile(s)? Are they drawing the wrong conclusions? Is the contractor/supplier employed an expert in the current challenges of the world of IT and its technologies? Is the researcher able to understand simple computer language and its meanings and symbols? Or is it once again “Big Brother” announcing who is really in control?
What’s on your website?
Until next time.