Living in the technology age, every companies would like to utilize the internet to make their management and organization more convenient and well-organized. Therefore, Information Technology become one of the most important section for the whole business.
The course, "Business Information Technology", literally transfer IT knowledge which is based on Business and Financial studies. This course certainly give me almost all essential skill for my future career, both financial part and IT part. About the Financial lessons, I have learnt that the basic accounting and finance knowledge about a business. These help me to understand how the financial department of a company work, which provide a brief but inspired direction for a programming beginner to enhance his or her IT skills for the future career. On the other hand, the IT lessons truly give me the learning i had never had before, such like the history of technology, how Internet run and the creative one, coding. These knowledge and skills are specialized and make me a real IT worker.
If I am going to pick a position available, i would choose "Software developer". As business and IT are the major subject of the course, developing a software that may help the operation of the business have to use the knowledge of IT with the concept of finance. It leads me to put what I have learnt to good use. On condition that I have a chance to gain this position, there are dozens of stuff I have to prepare. First of all, my scripting knowledge require to be built up. Since I am still a year 1 BIT student, only some simple python code and CSS have been taught. I need to absorb different kinds of coding language and skills for all possible usage and learn deeply and comprehensively. Furthermore, cooperation is of the utmost important skill I should master. To finish a large project of software development, multiple elements should be included, the resource provided for development, the user's requirement, the maintenance after development and so on. Without those elements, software cannot be development. Thus, the cooperation with different department is essential. Moreover, experiences have to be accumulated for my career. If I have to convince the employer to give me a job, experiences must be one of the requirement for them to pick a new employee. To fit the standard, being a intern is the path that I must go through. I have already prepared to be a intern at the summer holiday of year 2.