Career advice in Technical Support....

[coolspot]

Any advice on people interested in getting into MIS/IS?

Get certified so you know the technology and so that you can get a grunt job. Then take some business courses so you know how to support business requirements. Then get a designation of some sort so you can move into management and not get stuck doing grunt work for the rest of your life

[Majoram]

Hmm I'm guessing this type of certification would suite an engineer better???

It is a Project Management Professional designation governed by the Project Management Institute.

And you can't just accumulate hours tagging along on projects (yes they must be legitimate projects), you also need a certain amount of time managing parts or all of projects as well.

[Majoram]

Any advice on people interested in getting into MIS/IS?

What's your degree/experience weedboy?

[tomincanada]

Hmm I'm guessing this type of certification would suite an engineer better???

Project Management training & cert has broad applications. While it would be very useful for an engineer, it's also quite useful for IT. The size and scope of some IT projects (such as software development) are often huge.

I'm an IT Manager in a Project Management Cert program at Western so hopefully it's not just suited for engineers

[Majoram]

Project Management training & cert has broad applications. While it would be very useful for an engineer, it's also quite useful for IT. The size and scope of some IT projects (such as software development) are often huge.

I'm an IT Manager in a Project Management Cert program at Western so hopefully it's not just suited for engineers

Heh cool thanks!