Does a minor in Finance compliment an IT degree?

KevzorsKevzors Member Posts: 5 ■□□□□□□□□□
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  • TheFORCETheFORCE Member Posts: 2,297 ■■■■■■■■□□
    It does if you want to get into management or if you want to work for a bank or other financial institutions.
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  • mbarrettmbarrett Member Posts: 397 ■■■□□□□□□□
    It probably does if you want to work in the IT dept. of an investment bank.
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  • chmodchmod Member Posts: 360 ■■■□□□□□□□
    If you want to work for the IT departament of a hospital , you need a medical degree?

    If you want to work for the IT departament of an insurance company you need or will help a sales degree?

    Makes no sense for the regular infraestructure or help desk IT guy. Will not harm but won't help that much IMO unless you r coding/patching financial software or doing some kind of BI or data warehousing where you need to have a decente understanding or
    in detail the financial cycle of things.

    For a PM or a manager that control budget or calculates budget could help more. If you have your own company will help as well.
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  • stryder144stryder144 Member Posts: 1,684 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Yes, it does compliment the technical side. It helps you better understand the decisions companies make when developing budgets and allows you to help craft budget requests that include the necessary justifications for the expenditure requests. Now will it make every IT hiring manager stand up and take notice, no. Pursue it if that is what you are interested in. It definitely doesn't hurt and could help your career along, long term.

    One area it may help you with is in the auditing arena. I have seen a few IT auditor jobs requesting either a finance or accounting background.
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  • networker050184networker050184 Mod Posts: 11,962 Mod
    Will the knowledge help and will putting it on a resume help are two different questions. I'd say not likey to the latter.
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  • EANxEANx Member Posts: 1,077 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Will it help get a job at the lower levels? Not likely. Will it help later on as a director or a VP? Absolutely.
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  • ImYourOnlyDJImYourOnlyDJ Member Posts: 180
    My degree is in finance and I felt that it helped me stand out against the competition (though I do work in the financial services industry). During interviews I made it a point to explain that before college I knew I had a strong technical background but wasn't as strong on the soft skills and business side which is why I decided to get a business degree followed by technical certifications. My degree has allowed me to have more intelligent conversations with those on the business side of things.

    Let us know more about your situation and we can provide better feedback.
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