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Story: Is IT a good career choice?

Posted by: Tony Winningham (Monday 8 August 2005, 2:50 PM)

Greg I read your article from August 3 about IT careers and I would like to tell you that IT careers are alive and well in the heartland. Four years ago I got the job of training IT students at MIT (Murray In Tishomingo), we have never looked back. Even during the dark times of 2001 we found jobs for our 30 students. The key to finding jobs for these people is 1. Putting together a great training program that actually trains’ people. We spend 48 weeks training people in Microsoft, Cisco, CompTia, Linux and Web design plus during that time we send our students out on internships to various businesses. 2. Developing a good relationship with all the local business, for rural Oklahoma that means anyone within a 100 mile radius, and schools. That’s right schools; people in the IT industry have forgotten that E-Rate dumps $2.5 billion into the schools of the US each year. What that means is that the Education community is awash in technology and for the most part has no one to take care of it. We have been addressing the problem for the last four years with great results. All in all we have found if you produce a good product people will buy it.

Thanks Greg

Murray State College

One Murray Campus

Tishomingo, Ok 73460

580-371-2371 x265