{"id":16155,"date":"2021-09-13T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goit.global\/blog\/who-is-an-it-specialist-and-how-to-become-one\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T21:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T09:28:36","slug":"who-is-an-it-specialist-and-how-to-become-one","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/dev.goit.global\/ph\/blog\/who-is-it-specialist-and-how-to-become-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is an IT specialist and how to become one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Will you fill-up the printer? Fix the computer? Maybe check out the blender&#8230;No?! But you&#8217;re an IT guy!&#8221; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s common knowledge that IT professionals spend their days in front of computers and writing &#8220;something incomprehensible.&#8221; Others think that they have to know how all the appliances work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who is a programmer? How do people become IT specialists \u2014 which is what do they do? Read the article below to find out.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Who are IT folks in real life?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An IT specialist is a professional who works in the information technology field. &#8220;IT specialist&#8221; is an umbrella term for occupations ranging from computer assembly and computer network configuration to software development in the aerospace industry and cybersecurity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IDC, an international consulting firm, found that companies have invested more than $1 trillion annually in IT development since 2018, which means the number of IT occupations will continue to grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The statistical data on the development of the IT industry over the last 15 years shows the 3 most popular IT occupations that will be in demand in 2022 and for at least another 10 years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>1. Developers<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developers or programmers &#8211; IT professionals who create websites, games, computer programs, mobile applications, and web services using programming languages (JavaScript, Java, Python, C++, and others).<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Front End Developers develop interfaces of websites, applications, or platforms. They want the work with a website or an application to be understandable and user-friendly. Alexander Repeta, CTO at GoIT, shared what a Front End Developer should know and be able to do in 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back End Developers work on the server part of an IT project. It&#8217;s crucial for them that users get the correct information stored in databases, on servers, and from interaction with third-party services. They must know Python programming languages and frameworks, PHP, Java, Node.js, and Git version control systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Full Stack Developers create interfaces and configure the server side. Alexander Repeta, CTO at GoIT, told us all about Full Stack Developers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;re a beginner and want to become a programmer but are afraid to take serious steps and feeling insecure &#8211; sign up for the free 7-day HTML+CSS layout marathon. Spend 1-2 hours a day on the marathon and:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create your first resume site;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take your first steps in programming;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer the question, &#8220;Is IT really for me?&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.goit.global\/ph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sign up for the HTML+CSS online marathon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>2. Testers<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Testers are IT professionals who implement the requirements for implementing and operating an IT project to avoid bugs and stop new bugs from appearing. The goal of a tester&#8217;s job is to find problems on a site or in an application and pass the information on to developers for them to fix those bugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All about testing careers in a GoIT Journal Blog article: &#8220;Who is a QA Specialist and how to become one in 2023.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>3. IT Designers<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IT designers are also IT people. They help developers visualize the project and work on the customer interface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An IT designer does not need to be a gifted artist, innately talented, or understand the intricacies of classical and modern art. The main requirement &#8211; the desire to design attractive websites, mobile applications and games for users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To try your hand at IT design, sign up for a free marathon from GoIT, where you&#8217;ll:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what part designers take in the creation of IT projects;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">create your first design;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">try your hand as a web designer under the guidance of professionals.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are other IT specialists. An example would be DevOps (designs, participates in the creation, tests and maintains applications) or Game Developer. But precisely these 3 professions we talked about above are the right ones for a beginner to have a successful start in IT.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How to become an IT specialist without any experience?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to become an IT specialist from scratch &#8211; you have two ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Self-study. Corey Althoff, a Python developer who worked at eBay, says in his book that learning from scratch is real. A beginner needs to learn the basics of the profession and get his first job.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Training materials are available online &#8211; courses on torrent resources, leak courses, and YouTube lessons are accessible to everyone. And if you find a mentor &#8211; a professional who can help you understand the intricacies of the profession &#8211; the chance of becoming an IT specialist increases many times over.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Courses at GoIT. This is a ready-made plan to learn new knowledge and gain the IT skills you need to start a new career. You don&#8217;t need to search for new materials or experienced mentors &#8211; we&#8217;ve done that for you. Everything you need is:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discipline, attending classes and webinars,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Desire to develop in your new profession and realize your potential,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2-4 hours a day to work on your future &#8211; to learn the basics of the chosen IT direction.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to see what to expect when you take the first step and enroll in courses at GoIT &#8211; sign up for the IT-Fest. The conference will feature 12 GoIT graduates now working as Junior and Middle-level IT specialists and coming from diverse backgrounds. Their success stories are your chance to look ahead a year and a half and see the prospects:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decent dollar salary, higher than the national average even for Juniors;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opportunity to build on your strengths even further and gain the skills you need for work and life in general;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opportunity to enjoy not only the results of the work as well as the process.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is a programmer? How do people become IT specialists \u2014 which is what do they do? 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