| IT Support | | | | of different roles. IT trainees are given fairly minor |
| Many companies and professionals require an IT | | | | development tasks, in house training and practical |
| consultant to be on hand to give them advice and | | | | work experience. |
| assistance where needed. An IT support specialist's | | | | Candidates hoping to fill this position should have |
| main aim is to show clients how to use technology in | | | | good problem solving skills, enjoy investigating and |
| the best possible way. If they are working with an | | | | using different technologies and have a general |
| entire company, then they will work with employees | | | | interest in the internet and IT. |
| to improve an organisation's computer systems and | | | | Games Developer |
| IT procedure. | | | | This is a very sought after job, especially for young |
| IT support specialists can sometimes be employed | | | | professionals who have a keen interest in the games |
| purely to deliver high quality IT training to employees | | | | industry. However, many young people who aspire to |
| and senior managers. They can use their knowledge | | | | create the coolest new games do not realise just |
| and skills to give people the best tools and support | | | | how high their technical and design skills need to be |
| to do their jobs effectively. | | | | to be successful in this job role. Moreover, there a |
| Some of the daily activities that an IT support | | | | wide range of jobs available in the development |
| worker might have to undertake are things like going | | | | industry. There are designers, sound and image |
| to visit clients on site, explaining hardware, software | | | | technicians, artificial intelligence specialists, quality |
| and network procedures and requirements, solving | | | | testers and programmers. All of these job roles are |
| problems and designing IT solutions for clients. | | | | vital to the successful development and |
| IT Trainee | | | | implementation of a game. |
| This is a very popular IT job because candidates get | | | | Games development is focused around a series of |
| to learn the tricks of the trade, and the money isn't | | | | important stages that take a game from initial |
| bad either. It trainees should be motivated to use the | | | | concept to final product. This involves tasks such as |
| latest tools and techniques used in the information | | | | designing the overall look and visuals of the game, |
| technology sector. | | | | animating characters, producing sound and music, |
| If you decide to take on this role then you will get to | | | | creating detailed artwork and testing the game on a |
| work for very experience IT developers in a variety | | | | variety of subjects. |