Economics and IT How to get a job

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>Currently I am going to graduate in 2 years with Bachelor of Arts in economics.
I am thinking about getting certifications for CISCO.
Are there any recommended career paths.
What can I do now to show future employers that I have some work experience. I do not have any experience or certifications yet.
My whole goal is to get a steady job and just make a good living when I graduate then move up.
I am afraid that an economics degree will not specify me to do anything specifically. This is why I am thinking about going into IT. I do find it interesting as well. Also do you think my economics degree will help me, even if just a little.</p>

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<p>If you can do it, it takes about 2.5-3 years to complete a BS Computer Science degree. It “may” be well worth it to delay your graduation by a semester or a year.</p>

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<p>I have looked into this, however it will take more than a semester extra for me. It would be like getting another Bachelors degree all over again. I do not have the time nor the funds for this.
Thanks for your reply anyway :)</p>

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<p>Economics will get you in the door of most companies in the sales department I believe, although its probably better to have than Business admin (as it sets you apart from the army of business admins), its not as good as finance to land a job.</p>

<p>Now with computers, its either something you get or you don’t. The difficulties of comp sci are similar to engineering, not quite as hard but by few peoples standards easy. Are you willing to write a couple hundred lines of code over the weekend? If not comp sci may not be for you, as a previous poster said it would probably be beneficial to take longer to complete a comp sci degree. </p>

<p>IT is basically watered down comp sci. Many comp sci majors change to IT because its easier. They are different as computer science handles more programing than IT, for you IT would be best to pair with your economy major, but, a computer science major could very likely get a job before an IT major because of his more difficult education</p>

<p>Than we have the MBA with a focus in management systems, where you lead a team of IT and Comp sci. I dont know much about this to be honest.</p>

<p>So its up to you, I also suggest looking into all these majors in a deeper light.</p>

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<p>Any job that an IT person could get, a Comp Sci person could get. The reverse is not true.</p>

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<p>Not necessarily. You could have a CS degree and not know enough about hardware and/or networks to be competent enough to do certain IT jobs.</p>

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<p>However, a CS major can learn IT much more easily than an IT major can learn CS.</p>

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Bingo. Exactly.</p>

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<p>That’s a rather broad generalization. If you’re going to say something like that at least say “the average CS major can learn IT much more easily than the average IT major can learn CS.” Even if this is true, the relative difficulty of the two is different for various people. Just because you understand computation and software doesn’t mean you necessarily won’t have difficulty picking up IT related stuff. I’m sure you’re right to some extent, as there are CS/CE majors who switch into IT, but it’s not as clear cut as you say it is.</p>