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SPANISH PROFESSIONALISM

 


In the .com era (2000s), IT profiles, which until then had been simple systems profiles that programmed or took care of the infrastructure, began to experience the demand for other types of competences, for example: good communication, vision of processes, and understanding of the business, among other things. In 2010, with the boom of social networks, IT areas became "ICT" areas, i.e. Information and Communication Technologies, then the aforementioned competences were already compulsorily required.

Nowadays, knowing how to communicate, having courses, specific certifications that prove you are an IT professional and knowing how to relate are essential skills, and are already considered as natural aptitudes. Companies are demanding new, non-traditional knowledge and skills such as problem solving, efficient writing that really gets messages across with cohesion, the ability to work creatively in a team and especially project management. What would be ideal? The ideal would be the skill mix of a marketer, who has a systemic vision, who knows how to work with marketing and who has efficient communication skills.


Among the most sought skills in an IT professional are: 


  • The different: Logically, technical knowledge is fundamental, but also knowing a bit of another area and how it works is essential to be able to propose technological solutions that can add value to the company. Knowing a little about the financial market, the health sector or telecommunications, for example, can make a big difference.


  • Adaptive IT: Adaptive IT is when you learn a new technology in order to put it to use and support change.


  • Entrepreneurship: I am not only referring to having a business but also to knowing how to undertake internally in a company, in other words we could call it proactivity in favour of the company.


  • Creativity: The fact is not only to know how to work with the existing technology, but also to use different ways to take advantage of all its benefits and to use its capacity to the maximum. For this it is necessary to be creative every day and to use your creativity, making small changes to try something new.

In conclusion, we can say that the path we have seen in recent years in IT has undergone major changes. The question is: is this going to go in the same direction and in the end we will have to be experts in many fields to be able to hold the title of IT professional? Or is it going to become more specific, as in computer security, that the more you know about a specific subject, the better.



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