Microsoft Blogger Identifies Top Three Tech Majors

By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2010-08-26

IT professionals who are going back to school, mentoring a younger person, or the parent of a student with tech-related leanings might do well to read a blog post authored by a Microsoft HR specialist. In it, she outlined three important new majors.

Actually, that description may not do the majors justice; Eugenia Sawa described them as "the top three hottest new majors for a career in technology" on the Microsoft JobsBlog, which is quite an endorsement.

Anyway, the first area Sawa identified is that of data mining, machine learning, AI, and natural language processing. She wrote, "All of these fields help us sift through and organize huge amounts of information or data. When you apply your knowledge in these areas to a challenging problem in the online space, you know that you are working at a scale that is just immense."

Then Sawa turned to the subject of business intelligence and competitive intelligence. She wrote, "You will help increase any employer's bottom line and be able to provide organized data that is extremely valuable to any business. You can help drive business decisions and help your internal audience understand what the data is telling or showing you."

Finally, there's the field of Web analytics, A/B testing, and statistical analysis, and Sawa stated, "They all apply to the online world we live in and will also be in great demand as we continue to monetize the web. Retailers, web services, and advertisers will need people in these fields as they try to get the most for their advertising money."

Considering where Sawa works, she's in a prime position to say what's happening with respect to technology and new hires. Taking her advice should make it possible for IT pros to get jobs at lots of companies, not least of all Microsoft.

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