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Computer and Information Systems Managers

  • Bright Outlook
  • Rapid Growth

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as electronic data processing, information systems, systems analysis, and computer programming.

What you’d do

  • Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.
  • Meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.
  • Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.
  • Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers.
  • Provide users with technical support for computer problems.
  • Develop computer information resources, providing for data security and control, strategic computing, and disaster recovery.
  • Recruit, hire, train and supervise staff, or participate in staffing decisions.
  • Stay abreast of advances in technology.

Skills that matter

  • Critical Thinking
  • Active Listening
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Monitoring
  • Speaking

How to get there

Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree

Also called

  • Information Systems Director (IS Director)
  • Information Systems Manager (IS Manager)
  • Information Technology Director (IT Director)
  • Information Technology Manager (IT Manager)
  • Application Development Director
  • Computing Services Director

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