IT Specialist

Your skills include critical thinking, reading comprehension, and monitoring.

Your interests can be described as enterprising, investigative, and conventional.

Your values include working conditions, support, and achievement.

As an IT specialist, you may plan, direct, or coordinate activities related to electronic data processing, information systems, systems analysis, and computer programming. In the forest products industry, you could use your computer skills to manage land-related data with geographic information systems (GIS). Other responsibilities may include maintaining computer networks, running databases, recording data in the field, and managing software applications.

There may be opportunities for advancement to supervisory or managerial positions in this field.

Other job titles include: application development director, computing services director, data processing manager, information systems director (IS Director), information systems manager (IS Manager), information systems supervisor (IS Supervisor), information technology director (IT Director), information technology manager (IT Manager), MIS Director (management information systems director), technical services manager.

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.