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Marketable Skills

 

COMPUTER SYSTEMS - INFORMATION SYSTEMS MARKETABLE SKILLS

• Determine how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Create or maintain web pages to successfully promote an organization’s products or services.
• Create or maintain business presentations to make appealing and persuading arguments or proposals.
• Create or maintain spreadsheets to make optimal decisions in business environments.
• Create or maintain project management software applications to enhance planning and control of technological change.
• Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes.
• Identify the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions.
• Plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification, or disclosure.
• Communicate effectively with peers, managers, end-users, and other stakeholders.
• Work productively with other personnel, managers, end-users, and other stakeholders to achieve optimal solutions to technology problems.
• Work ethically, responsibly, and conscientiously.
 
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