Information technology class

 

Review the videos in this section.  After viewing, create a 2page Word document in APA format.  Your topics include:

1. A brief description of 2 careers, 1 in your major and the second in the technology field.
2. Describe each career in detail including salary (based in MD, VA, and DC geographical area), education level or certification needed, and duties. 
3. What emerging technology (within the past 5 years) is used in the industry (your chosen career) to improve production or work flow. 
4. What are the ethical issues.
5. Include 4 references. 

In this assignment you will research information about your careers of interest salary, education level, duties, ethical issues,and emerging technologies. You want to find out what a person in each career does but you also need to investigate criteria for each career that we will use for evaluation.

• Read about evaluating website on the PGCC Library web site. Go to http://pgcc.libguides.com/c.php?g=60038&p=385689
• Review APA style reference at https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html
• Look up the criteria for each of your careers on the Bureau of Labor and Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook  https://www.bls.gov/ooh
• Look up the criteria for each of your careers on O*Net  https://www.onetonline.org/
• Look up the criteria for each of your careers on a site of your choice
• Find at least one site that identifies an ethical issue(s) for your careers
• Find at least one site that identifies an emerging technology(ies) for your careers
• Keep all (4 or more) URL’s in a Word document using the Word reference feature. 

1. Submit as a Word (25 points) and a PDF document (10 points) below.