I'll recap a few items, keeping them fairly high level. I don't want to roll over on the person but I felt the information was interesting. Again this is from the Director of IT Education @ xyz University
They no longer prep students for the A+ exam
They have a cyber security program (Bachelors and Masters). They have found that companies are REQUIRING security + for interns and new graduates to go straight into security. Also said it was BS that you had to work help desk before moving into Security. ( I specifically asked them this question ).
Former student of theirs is making over 200 a year, graduated from the virtualization program. Said students that graduate from virtualization or security program have a strong chance of landing a job right out of school. (Especially if they do internships)
Literally has 5 - 6 (Mostly large ones) companies calling and emailing him monthly about new graduates with Java skills, even very basic. They can't find these skills and it's killing some of these projects the companies want to do. He said a new grad can make almost 100,000 coming out of school with Java skills. Those resources are so rare.
Dropped the service management course. Companies are not asking for this as much. Several years ago ~5 or so it sounded like this was a big deal but now it's gone away, almost like a fad. I'm seeing this as well, while service management is important IMO it's not was hot as it once was, not even close.
Recommends any young person to get in Cyber security or virtualization. See's a lot of old school sys and network admins coming back through the master program to pick up on virtualization. Some were laid off others just to stay relevant.
Client side technology is not longer being taught on a stand alone class. It's only being offered as part of a entry level infrastructure course. Student's aren't particularly interested in those skills and for the most part companies aren't looking for those resources. This is just another move to shape the curriculum to what the market wants, and it's not client side skills. ***In this area
Really went on about virtualization, I think that was his interest but had some really good stories about students and where they are now.
He was stone faced when he said that student are landing jobs immediately once they graduate from the virtualization program. You can tell he was serious and due to several reasons I am sure that program is placing a lot of people right now.
Just wanted to share with the community.
