Emerging Careers Video Library: Information Technology Occupations

You gotta love an educational video that uses real information technology workers as on-screen talent. Here, viewers will see typically messy server farms with medusa-like wires hanging every which-a-way, monitors covered in so many sticky notes that you barely see the screen, and desks stacked high with software and papers. In short, the real world of information technology workers everywhere. Featuring interviews with the people who make the network hum, this video briefly looks at the daily duties, employment outlook, educational requirements, and likely salary ranges for positions from systems administrators and engineers to hardware and software designers and database analysts. The interview segments provide prospective job (and career) seekers with a glimpse of the day-to-day, and doesn't pull any punches (such as when the typical schedule for a software engineer is tabbed at 40-80 hours per week). The enclosed user's guide includes a study worksheet for students. A solid choice for high school, academic and public libraries, this is recommended. The other titles in the series (series price: $450) are Internet-Related Occupations, Biotechnology Occupations, Environmental Occupations: Professional and Environmental Occupations: Technical. Aud: J, H, C, P. (C. Block)