Technology assimilation and talent storage

The other day, I received a call from a state representative regarding information posted on my website. I was asked 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 in-depth information to visitors, but also to showcase my particular skills and talents. The woman had nothing. The more she talked about it, 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 of 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 to the business and activities related to those particular people. The published data is primarily intended to assist people in current and past educational events and job connections. The site also helps me with my job search and exposure to potential employers. The intention is to make an impression.

Computer science students of color are grossly 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 dissension 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 deficit for the information technology workforce. Underrepresented groups, ie African Americans, Latino Americans, women, and older workers would benefit profoundly from expanding information technology workforce needs. The 1998 report by Herman D. Hughes, a professor at Michigan State University, said: “Studies have shown that if those underrepresented groups were to fully participate in the IT workforce, there would be no IT workforce shortage.

“New legislation, White House policy and a Cyber ​​Security Czar should help the situation. A lack of centralized leadership has hampered the sharing of information on vulnerabilities and uncertainty about government security policy remains to be done.” to open up data silos,” according to Mr. J. Nicholas Hoover of TechWeb.com.

Federal agencies reported that various intelligence agencies had information about the US attackers on September 9, 2001. This misstep of miscommunication helped eliminate 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 has been progress since then, from information sharing agreements between various agencies 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 government-wide treasury accounts. 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 non-interoperable redundant systems are still normal within government agencies? Says Hoover, “Many agencies insist on maintaining their independence, and those that want to open up face technical hurdles to sharing information.” He cites the Department of Defense as an example. Military branches are reluctant to use the Defense Information Services Agency (DISA) or the Defense Business Transformation Agency (BTA).

Siled information has proven to be DOD’s biggest challenge as modernization of department business systems slows, as recorded by the Government Accountability Office. Over 3,000 disparate financial systems are 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 spending allocation of $1 billion annual dollars. Countless interfaces require connectivity for reconciliation errors within these government systems.

“It’s clear that the future of information technology is inextricably tied to preparing underrepresented students,” says Bob Reed, vice president of diversity and inclusion for Cingular Wireless Systems, as reported by Mr. Fred Green Jr., NNPA technology writer. . “The road to success begins long before a potential employee completes a job application.”

This reporter’s collegiate study 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 latter 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 their fellow campus members and faculty members. Cingular Wireless Systems took on this challenge, says Mr. Green. The rewards are scholarships, grants and company products. The Cingular Challenge provides an opportunity for business students to showcase their skills in displaying proficient balance and theory with concepts of teamwork as well as individual creativity. (Challenge results 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 seek? (Especially within government agencies!) Why are entry-level jobs fraught with red tape when it’s obvious applicants have the skills and abilities to perform IT tasks and responsibilities?

An IT workforce shortage? Please!

Skilled workers in IT tend not to have their skills sitting idle. They (we) 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 unattainable for the average person. We are encouraged to create and maintain online profiles and resumes that attract visits from employers. We are encouraged to display our skills and talents online, 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 their skilled and competent homegrown (and not homegrown, but back home) talents that put their IT productions on greater heights! That particular talent (in most cases) can’t stand the pressures of financial stress, not to mention medical, with the knowledge that nurtured talent intends to serve the government it calls home… country: at least one for two years. The competition looks at us and smiles. Competition grows with changing technology trends and changes as we sit back and yell “IT Manpower Shortages!”

The competition goes home with the trophy and we placed 6th and 7th 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 of our talent… throughout the land of the free… the home of the brave? Inclusion is the only way to total and absolute 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 employed contractor/vendor expert in the current challenges of the IT world 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.