If you are reading this page probably you are looking for improvements in your career or just for curiosity… if I am right this post is for you, I mean that it is for you even if you are just curious

Why I have decided to write about career in a WordPress page and not in a normal post?
I am young and I can say that between people of my age I have good working experience and skills, technical and inter-personal.  Everyday it is a new day for work and studying, sometimes completely different matter. Anyway I am writing this not to talk about me, but about the others. Yes, about the others, because not everybody know what to do in their lives. And career is a very important topic for both young and old people.

Why I want to be good?
Maybe because I like it.  I like thinking positive, helping people and why not, even receiving help if I need some.  I really want to write something good for people who are thinking what to do in their lives, and I can help much more people that are thinking their career will be in IT, Information Technology, than others.

In IT there are many paths that you can take, to know which path is the good one to you. Try to understand what you like, what you want, what your dreams are and what you normally do in front of a PC.  Or maybe try to understand your curiosities.

In IT you can specialize in Networking, Programming, Web Designing, Management, Project Management, Operating Systems, Network Security and many others. Let’s see some of them:

Networking:

Cisco Systems: Learn how internet works. Knowledge about routing and switching, about Cisco devices security, configurations and best practices.
Juniper: Learn use and configuration of Juniper networking hardware.
CompTIA: Vendor neutral company which teaches a little bit of everything about networking from the very beginning. It talks about different operating systems and how they work together, also about several networking tools which are really good to the network administrator.

Programming:

Databases: Click here to know what is a database. Here there are two common possibilities: MySQL, Microsoft SQL and PostgreSQL.
Programming languages: Learn how to create a program from zero. There are different kinds of Programming Languages, each of them has its pros and cons.  If you have no idea, try to look at the codes of each language, read about them and chose the one you like more. Some of the programming languages are: Perl, Java, .NET, JAVA, CGI, RoR Python, C – C++.

Web Design:

HTML: it is the basic language that everybody who design or make web pages should know, without it you cannot design the web.
ColdFusion: scripting language used for dynamic internet application development, it is similar to ASP, JSP and PHP
Java Server Pages: is a Java technology that that allows dynamically-generated web pages development. It is platform independent.
PHP: It is a scripting language very used on the web. Most of the web sites are programmed in PHP, for example, WordPress, Vbulletin and manyothers.
ASP: Active Server Pages is a Microsoft scripting language and it is designed to be on Microsoft Server Operating Systems only. It is similiare to PHP.

Management:

ITIL: It is a set of best practices that help to manage information technology infrastructure, development and operations.

Project Management:

PMI: The Project Management Institute can certify you on your Project Management skills that you have acquired in their courses, university or on the job.

Operating Systems:

Microsoft: Learn all the secrets of Windows operating Systems, from XP to the Advanced Servers administration.
Linux: Almost all the Linux operating systems are free. They are known to be very good expecially as servers.
Sun-Solaris: Unix operating System developed by Sun, very highly performing as servers it is being used more and more.
FreeBSD: Unix-BSD free operating System, similar to Solaris and Linux, very high performance as server.

Network Security:

(ISC)²^®: ISC is the leader in the world for Information Security Education and Certification – Very good training procedures and really recognized by employers.
SCP: Security Certified Program – It’s a vendor neutral Computer Security Industry that validates and certificates the Security skills of the candidates.

Which one you are going to chose? You should know more about each of them. Click on every single item and read my desctiption.