Skills, knowledge needed for this field:
- Continually educate yourself on new computer languages and technologies
- Diversify your computer language knowledge
- Ability to work well within a team as well as individually; work within a timeline
Develop your resume:
- Do volunteer work for local organizations or churches
- Design your own webpage, featuring samples of your work
- Obtain certifications
- Gain experience through an internship
| EMPLOYERS OF MC ALUMNI | |
| Bank of America | Lockheed Martin |
| Baptist Health System | Phi Theta Kappa |
| Business Communications Inc | SkyHawke Technologies |
| CenturyTel | Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance |
| Entergy | The Clarion-Ledger |
| Equity Technologies Corp | Trustmark National Bank |
| First Baptist Church of Jackson | University of Mississippi Medical Center |
| Homeaway.com | US Army Corps of Engineers - ERDC |
| IBM Corporation | Xerox State Healthcare |
Additional resources and links:
- American Society of Information Science & Technology
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Computer Jobs
- Computer Work
- Dice.com
- Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society
- Software & Information Industry Association
