How many different types of job in ICT?

The beauty of the ICT industry is that the scope of jobs is almost endless. From the slightly less glamorous (such as IT infrastructure) to the currently more popular (such as game development) it covers such of a variety of different roles – and different skill sets. If you are a great organiser and good with people, you can become a project manager, if you are process driven and logical you might become a back end developer. But what else?

Take Rena from Biteable, for example. Rena has a Bachelor or Arts and was working as a marketing and communications consultant before she joined the team at Biteable.

“I started out as a copywriter, but I am responsible for social media management and social media marketing now. In a small company like ours, it’s a matter of doing what your skill set is and mine is in communication.”

In Rena’s role it is very important to be clear when she don’t understand something or when something becomes too technical and “goes go over my head, from a technical perspective… because the team that I work with is always happy to slow down and explain something to me in more depth, that I can’t google myself of course.”

Understanding and being heavily involved in the technical aspect is important for Rena as she must be able to send that message out to clients.

Rena didn’t set out to work in the ICT industry necessarily, and her skills can certainly be applied to many fields, but she is a natural fit, and it is a natural fit for her. “I would say that my experience working with a business in the field of ICT is really positive; everyone is very welcoming and really looking to provide opportunities to people who may not have felt that this was a natural fit for them,” Rena, Biteable.

When you think about it that way, it is almost impossible to count the different types of role in the ICT sector in Tassie … If you are interested in getting started, it’s a matter of thinking about where your skills and interests lie because there is certainly a job out there for you.

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