4/1/20

SIT124 Exploring IT

Class Lecture Notes

for Weeks 3 and 4
Presenter: Dr Elicia Lanham

Aaron Spence and Jihong Park

School of Information Technology

SIT124 Exploring IT

Week 3 Class Lecture

- Assignment 1
Presenter: Dr Elicia Lanham

Aaron Spence and Jihong Park

School of Information Technology

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Welcome to Exploring I.T.

A bit about us:

Dr Elicia Lanham
Unit Chair
Burwood and Cloud Campus Coordinators
Phone: +61 3 925 17602
Campus: Burwood - Building T
[email protected]

Aaron Spence Jihong Park

Geelong Lecturer Geelong Campus Coordinator
Phone: +61 3 522 78638 Phone: +61 4 2649 2425
Campus: Waurn Ponds
Campus: Waurn Ponds
Room: Ka Room: Ka
[email protected]
[email protected]

SIT124 Discussion

Within the Lecture this week we will be using a combination of the

Chat feature and Mentimeter to conduct our discussions.

• To access todays Mentimeter Poll simply open a new browser tab

and enter:
– www.menti.com
– And when prompted enter Room ID: 39 14 02

– Our first questions is about how you are all feeling about the change
to fully online studies

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Your assessment

• Transform your understanding of the IT discipline of into

career awareness
• By working through the activities in your module 1 and 2
activities and through creating a career video you will
complete the Assignment 1 requirements.

Assessment 1 - Professional Preparation

Document/Website.
• Assessment 1 –Individual assessment - 15% of your total grade

• Achieves unit learning outcome: ULO1 – through student ability to demonstrate knowledge
of professional IT practices.

• Due date: This assignment must be submitted electronically through the Assessment Folder in the
SIT124 Unit Site by Updated Due Date: Week 5 Friday 10th April 2020, by 11:59pm

Introduction
• In this assessment you will prepare an online portfolio and a LinkedIn profile that presents your
career aspirations, plan for career development, and understanding of the skills required for your
chosen career.

This assessment also asks you to present a picture of your future career, exploring roles you would
like to consider. You will be supported in exploring these concepts through module 1 and 2 of this
unit, please refer to the modules for further activities that support exploring your career.

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Portfolium – Online Portfolio Tool

• Instructions on how to create a Protfolium account can be found in Module 1 -

1.8 Creating your Portfolium.
– You will need to sign up using your Deakin email address to create your account
• Once you have create a Portfolium account can follow the instructions
provided in Module 1 - 1.9 Using Portfolium.
– This section contains instructions on how to edit your site and how to add a new
project.
• If you have any problems when setting up you account your can refer to the
Portfolium Network user guides.
• If you need further help, you can contact [email protected].

Reporting on career aspirations, skills and

supporting experiences
1. An introduction of yourself, your career aspirations, and your career interest.
2. Provide a summary of your skills audit, indicate your current key skills.
(see Module 1 section 1.5)

3. A screen shot of your LinkedIn profile, with a brief statement about which employers and
groups you have chosen to connect with and why. When connecting you should keep in mind
who might be useful to have in your network when looking for an Internship or Placement.
4. A short video that describes how you would like to support your career development.

5. A timeline of career development experience: what resources will you use to help you career
development, what units do you plan to take as part of your degree? (see module 2 if you are
unsure how to connect to prepare your timeline).

6. References: Presented in Harvard style, evidence of research about the selected experiences,
this might include links to prospective internship positions, summer programs, links with
details on information sessions etc.

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Career video

1. An introduction, who are you?

2. What is this website for? How did you create it?
3. An outline of your career aspirations. What is your career interest?
4. What roles are you considering in your career future? What skills do you need to
complete these roles (refer to your skills audit completed in module 1)?
5. A brief discussion of which type of experiences (school, faculty, university or external
opportunities) you could incorporate into the timeline of your degree and why these
would support your career development. What activities will you undertaken to help
you fill the gap in your skills (as explored through your skills audit – module 1).
6. A conclusion about your career development plans in brief. Please
make sure to be specific on how this can be used best for your
personal circumstances.

Developing career supporting experiences

• During your course what academic and industry supporting experiences

will you develop?
• Career development plan
• Undertake an Internship

• Ensures you don’t miss out on opportunities

• Discussion: What career supporting experience/ opportunities that you
identified so far?
• Another useful resource for you to design your own multi-year timeline with
is the section Timeline & action plan in the
online module Career Decisions on Deakin Talent.

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Assessment 1 -Review

1. Create a Portfolium website

2. Create a LinkedIn Profile

3. Reporting on career aspirations, skills and supporting

experiences

4. Career video, via website

SIT124 Exploring IT

Module 2: Becoming
an IT Professional

Elicia Lanham, Aaron Spence and Jihong Park

School of Information Technology

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Module 2: Weeks 3 to 4

• Being an IT Professional
• What does this mean?
• Developing career supporting experiences
• Deakin Talent
• Making the most out of placement

• This module will run from: 23rd March – 3rd April

Introduction

What is an professional?

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Introduction

What is an IT professional?

What does it mean to be an IT professional?

Let’s and pause and discuss.

• To access todays Mentimeter Poll simply open a new browser tab

and enter:
– www.menti.com
– And when prompted enter Room ID: 39 14 02

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How is being an IT professional different?

Disciplines such as architecture, medicine and engineering exist

within structured professional contexts that require each individual
to be registered or certified to work in that profession (Coldwell,
2008).

This rigour is lacking in the IT industry with professional membership

not a required feature to be considered as an ‘IT professional’.

Mentimeter Poll Question - www.menti.com Room ID: 39 14 02

Maintaining a Portfolio for your Future

• A record of your professional self

• Websites are common way of curating evidence
• It allows to Showcase what you can do and to what standard.
• It allows you to expand the viewing audience of your talents.

• Do you have a portfolio?

• If not you can start at anytime! It is never to early or too late to start!

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SIT124 Exploring IT

Module 2: Part 2
Becoming an IT
Professional
Elicia Lanham, Aaron Spence and Jihong Park
School of Information Technology

SIT124 Discussion

Within the Lecture this week we will be using a combination of the

Q&A feature in the Live Event and Mentimeter to conduct our
discussions.

• To access todays Mentimeter Poll simply open a new browser tab

and enter:
– www.menti.com
– And when prompted enter Room ID: 28 52 87

– Our first questions is about how you are all feeling about the change
to fully online studies

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Professional Associations Content from

Module 1 Class – Part 2

Association for Computing Machinery is a Global organisation for

computing, world’s largest scientific and educational computing
society https://www.acm.org/

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE is a

professional association for electrical and electronic engineering and
associated disciplines such as computer engineering and
telecommunications. https://www.ieee.org/index.html

These are relevant community for developing you as an IT

professional, and they are both advocates for the research and
advancement of Technology.

Professional Associations

We have introduced you to two global professional associations:

• ACM
• IEEE

The Australian Computer Society, is a local professional association.

In the Australian context the national accreditation body is the
‘Australian Computer Society’ (ACS).

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Professional associations

• The ACS as a professional body can accredit IT educational programs

as well as individuals so as to allow formal ‘IT professional’ status to
be applied.
• While the ACS provides many aspects that define the professional
landscape of IT:
– core body of knowledge, accreditation, certification, professional society,
code of ethics and professional development
• However the breath of influence the ACS has over the IT industry is
limited due to a lack of ‘certified membership’ required to claim IT
skills.
• You do not need to be accredited or formally educated by the ACS to
work in the IT industry. https://www.acs.org.au

ACS and Your course

• Most undergraduate courses in the School of IT are ACS

accredited.
• Professional recognition for the BIT

– The Bachelor of Information Technology is professionally

accredited with the Australian Computer Society (ACS).

• https://www.deakin.edu.au/current-students-
courses/course.php?course=S326&version=2&year=2020&keywo
rds=S326

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Lack of formal acknowledgement

In what way do you think this impact on the professional landscape?

• To access todays Mentimeter Poll simply open a new browser tab

and enter:
– www.menti.com
– And when prompted enter Room ID: 28 52 87

Core body of knowledge

• Skills information as defined by the ACS informs the ways in which an

IT professional should be characterised (ACS 2015).
• ACS defines a Core Body of Knowledge (CBOK) to define an IT
professional
– CBOK is to develop a set of knowledge requirements for each
specific domain area (information technology vs information
systems)
– https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs-skills/The-ACS-Core-
Body-of-Knowledge-for-ICT-Professionals-CBOK.pdf

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Core Body of Knowledge

• Essential Core ICT Knowledge

– All graduates are expected to have an in-depth understanding of two knowledge
areas: ICT Professional Knowledge and ICT Problem Solving.
• Knowledge Area: ICT Professional Knowledge
– Ethics, Professional expectations, Teamwork concepts and issues, Interpersonal
communication, Societal issues/legal issues/privacy, Understanding the ICT profession
• Knowledge Area: ICT Problem Solving.
– This requires knowledge of how to use modelling methods and processes to
understand problems, handle abstraction and design solutions.
• General ICT Knowledge
– As well as have essential core ICT knowledge (ICT Problem Solving and ICT Professional
Knowledge), it is essential that all graduates have a conceptual understanding of ICT as
a broad discipline.

CBOK - General ICT Knowledge

• Knowledge area: Technology Resources

– Hardware and software fundamentals, Data and information
management, Networking.
• Knowledge Area: Technology Building
– Human factors, Programming, Systems development, Systems
acquisition.
• Knowledge Area: ICT Management
– IT governance and organisational issues, IT project management,
Service management, Security management

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Skills Framework in the Information Age (SFIA)

• The SFIA Foundation is a global not-for-profit organisation which

oversees the production and use of SFIA.
• The Foundation develops and maintains the SFIA Framework and the
SFIA Ecosystem.
• SFIA was first published in 2000 based on collaborative work carried out
in the UK dating back to the 1980s
• https://www.sfia-online.org/en/framework

• Many jobs now can list the required SFIA skills in their selection criteria.

SFIA - Skills at a glance

• 6 Categories of Skills
– Each has a number of subcategories – 17 overall
– 96 different skills
• Each skills is measured across up to 7 levels.
– Not all skills have all 7
• A Graduate should be at skill level 3 on at least 1 skill.

• https://www.sfia-online.org/en/framework/sfia-7/skills-home

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IT graduate skills according to ACM and IEEE Content from

Module 1 Class – Part 2

1. Analyze complex, real-world problems to identify and define computing requirements and
apply computational approaches to the problem-solving process.
2. Design, implement, and evaluate a computing-based solution to meet a given set of
computing requirements in the context of the IT discipline.
3. Communicate effectively with diverse audiences the technical information that is
consistent with the intended audience and purpose.
4. Make informed judgments and include unique perspectives of others in computing
practice based on legal and ethical principles.
5. Function effectively on teams and employ self- and peer-advocacy to address bias in
interactions, establish goals, plan tasks, meet deadlines, manage risk, and produce
deliverables.
6. Identify and analyze user needs and consider them during the
selection, integration, and administration of computer-based systems.

Working in Tech in 2020

2020 Emerging Jobs Report – Australia

1. Artificial Intelligence Specialist 9. Growth Manager

2. Intelligence Specialist 10. Chief Strategy Officer
3. Marketing Automation Specialist 11. Anti-money Laundering Specialist
4. Robotics Engineer (Software) 12. Product Owner (moved from 5 in 2019 to 12 in 2020)
5. Site Reliability Engineer (moved from 2 in 2019 to 5 in 2020) 13. Service Designer
6. Customer Success Specialist 14. Full Stack Engineer
7. Data Scientist (moved from 1 in 2019 to 7 in 2020) 15. Automation Consultant
8. Data Engineer

LinkedIn Emerging Jobs of 2020 by Country

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Careers in IT Content from

Module 1 Class – Part 2

• What do you think a job in IT will look like in 2023?

• Let’s pause and discuss

• To access todays Mentimeter Poll simply open a new browser tab

and enter:
– www.menti.com
– And when prompted enter Room ID: 28 52 87

THE SKILLS COMPANIES NEED MOST

• LinkedIn Data Reveals in-demand skills of 2020 Globally to help you get an idea
of what companies are looking for.

Top 5 Most In-Demand Hard Skills Top 5 In-Demand Soft Skills

1. Blockchain 1. Creativity

2. Cloud computing 2. Persuasion

3. Analytical reasoning 3. Collaboration

4. Artificial intelligence 4. Adaptability

5. UX design 5. Emotional intelligence

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Conclusion

• Having an understanding of what is means to be an IT professional is

an important career development activity to enable you to have a
successful career.
• IT professional need to be responsive and keep up to date with the way
in which IT careers are changing.
• This module has also evidenced how technical skills are only a part of
the spectrum of skills required to be an IT professional.

• What’s next? Complete the Module 2 Activities

• Continue working on your Assignment 1 Portfolium submission.

Assessment 1 – Recap

Step 1 - Create a Portfolium website

Step 2 - Create a LinkedIn Profile

Step 3 – Introduction to you and your career aspirations, Summary

of the Skills Audit, LinkedIn Profile and connections, Career video,
supporting experiences timelines.

Step 4 - Career video, and host through Deakin Air

Submit the assignment but including the URL for your Portfolium
Site and a One page summary of your Site.

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https://portfolium.com/elanham

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References

• ACS, 2015, ACS Core Body of Knowledge for ICT Professionals,

https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/rules-and-regulations/The-ACS-Core-
Body-of-Knowledge-for-ICT-Professionals-CBOK.pdf
• Coldwell, J. (2008). Professional Ethics and Responsibilities. In D. McDermid
(Ed.), Ethics in ICT: An Australian Perspective. Frenchs Forest: Pearson Education
Australia.
• Ford, G., & Gibbs, N. E. (1996). A Mature Profession of Software Engineering.
Retrieved from:http://www.sei.cmu.edu/reports/96tr004.pdf
• https://blog.linkedin.com/2019/january/10/linkedins-most-promising-jobs-of-2019

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Questions?

Let’s and pause and discuss.

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