Muhammad Husain Nur Faiz Assyifa
Asih Ernawati, Ph.D.
Critical Writing
7 December 2022
Job
Vacancy in Technology Creative
Recent
university graduates face an ever-changing professional landscape where it can
be challenging to find jobs that lead to successful careers. This is
particularly the case for emergent professions such as Creative Technologies,
given the changing nature of technology and the value as well as the challenges
of working across traditional disciplines. This paper presents a research
project that seeks to help fresh creative technologists get better work
opportunities in a changing landscape. Students, alumni, and industry experts
were interviewed to identify current perceptions and practices, opportunities
and challenges, and to generate insights that inform the design of future
solutions. Three themes were identified from these interviews: unexplored existing
opportunities, a demand for employability skills, and the need for better
student-industry interactions. The first refers to opportunities that may
already be available but lack sufficient recognition or need more visibility.
The second points to the need of an ongoing dialogue between academia and
industry to identify the changing landscape of skills in demand. The third
highlights the need for creative collaborations across sectors and actors to
increase the interaction between students and potential employers. The insights
from this study inform the aspects that need to be addressed to design
solutions that help Creative Technologies graduates start their careers in the
right directions. The research raises new questions about why and how
universities in the future can engage stakeholders to make the most of existing
untapped opportunities and restructure processes to align with changing demands
in industry.
Every
year several survey inventories are performed throughout the IT industry by
trade magazines and research groups that attempt to gauge the current state of
the industry as it relates to trends. Many of these highlight a technology
skills gap between job expectations and potential employees. While many job
openings exist and educational programs are adjusting to produce more
candidates for these jobs, many employers express dissatisfaction with the
talent pool. Many of these surveys do not take into account wide differences in
the spectrum of industries that employ technology workers. This study
interviewed four “C” level executives from four different industries to
discover more specifically which skills they have identified as being most
valuable for potential employees. The results show that the “skills” gap is not
just technical. The soft skills of communication, problem solving, and
interpersonal skills as well as motivation and positive attitude may be more in
demand than specific hard skills of programming languages or other CS/IT
specific training. This may be even more pronounced in the multifaceted area of
Cybersecurity
The
first article is similar to second article that describe about technology in
job vacancy. But, first article discuss about a research project that seeks to
help emerging creative technologists find better job opportunities. On other
hand, second article discuss about interest survey in job vacancies in
technology.
References
Evan Schirf, Anthony Serapiglia. "Identifying
the Real Technology Skills Gap: A." Information Systems Education
Journal (ISEDJ) (2017): 72.
Ricardo Sosa, Rajiv Rajusha, Amabel Hunting.
"Landing your first job in Creative Technologies: Soft." Design
and Technology Education: An International Journal (n.d.): 65.
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