Calliaz
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 6, 2005
I've hired people, and no. There are IT management majors, but the majority of people we hire into management we start as business analysts or project managers or systems analyst - those aren't jobs we look for IT degrees for - they are jobs we look for liberal arts majors.
My experience, and the experience of a LOT of IT managers I work with is that we prefer liberal arts majors to groom to management. Not business majors and not STEM majors. STEM majors tend to make the worst managers, they haven't been taught to think broadly and don't tend to be wired for it. Business majors tend to be political animals who look out for themselves over the company.
Thank you. I worked in IT out of college with an English degree and a master of public administration. We were often looking for people with a liberal arts degree for the higher-paid project management jobs. They have such a broad base of knowledge and they generally have much better people skills.
The thing people forget about liberal arts degrees is that they have a huge base of learning. I had to take math, science, social sciences, history, etc. Every experience helped me become a better employee. However, they aren't right for everyone.
I just hate to see these students stuck in classes they hate knowing that they are going to hate their careers. Most people end up switching careers (not just jobs) more than once, anyway. I feel like it is best to get as much and as broad an education as possible so that you are marketable when it is time to find that next career.