Some Higher Education Administration jobs may require no experience.

Very little on-the-job training for IT workers in Higher Education

Less than 5 years of experience in related occupation required

Lots of entry level opportunities available, as demand in IT is currently massive.

Interviewee says if you can find a job in medical IT, you are given about two years of paid and useful training

Lots of training available for this field.

Important qualities include Problem-solving skills, organizational skills, interpersonal skills, and computer skills.

Employee should be able to work and communicate well with teams of many different sizes. Employee should be able to lead as well as follow.

Employee in It should have a good sense of self-motivation, be able to direct themselves toward an objective.

The employee should be able to familiarize him or herself with many different tools and programs used in IT such as Microsoft Office Applications, Virtual Desktops, etc.

While little experience is required, most employers prefer hiring candidates who have several years of experience in a postsecondary education administrative setting.

In higher education administration, Provosts and academic deans are often required to have a Ph.D. Many administrators who started out as professors and then moved into administration have doctorates in fields in which they taught, but others have a Ph.D. in higher education or other related fields.

Postsecondary education administrators usually need at least a master’s degree. At some smaller colleges or at a community college, however, a bachelor’s degree may suffice. There is an extremely wide variety of disciplines that your degree can be in, not just limited to education or computer science.

Many people in IT work in support roles, helping people to fix their technological problems or giving them advice on improving their work.

Top Five Schools in nation for IT: MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, California Institute of Tech. Harvard.

If you’re a developer, however, you can create solutions for many different types of needs

Many people in IT are generally satisfied knowing that their work is helping other people solve problems.

Current VP of Job Shadowee's company started out as programmer

Must be able to use many different Microsoft Applications such as OneDrive, Sharepoint, Outlook, and Skype

Should be able to use a computer/look at a monitor for long periods of time.

Shadowee's job was to expedite communication between students and administrators

Postsecondary education administrators who work in admissions do the following: Determine the number of students that can be admitted to the school, Meet with potential students and advise them to apply, Review applications to determine which individual students should be admitted, Observe and analyze applicant and student data, and Prepare school promotional materials

Schedule is very flexible, employees make their own schedule

Employees had opportunity to work up to two days a week at home, working however many hours they wanted.