Choosing Your CIW Job Role
In the 21st century, the abundance of technology options and the changing job market can confuse anyone about the essential skills required in today's workplaces.
CIW provides a clear path with industry-recognized job titles and practical skills required to perform specific job tasks. Job-role certifications like CIW enable the certificant to demonstrate to employers that he or she has the skills necessary to perform a job. Which CIW job-role certification should you pursue?
Foundations: Skills for Every JobComputer and Internet technologies are used in every workplace today. CIW Associate certification validates practical skills for every 21st-century job. Online fundamentals -- such as Web browsing, research, e-mail, documentation, project management, networking and Web development -- make every employee more valuable, from the IT team to the marketing team, the executive assistant to the executive VP, the work-at-home mom to the entrepreneur. What do you want to be? The CIW Associate makes you better.
- Digital Media & Design
Images, video and sound surround Internet information and bring it to life. As a digital media expert, you will determine the design, color and layout of Web sites and digital presentations. You will choose media types and delivery platforms, create storyboards, and estimate the cost and scope of design projects. You will be responsible for the marketing appeal of your company's name and products.
- Web Development & Administration
- Today's Web sites require a complex mix of text, graphics and interactive modules produced by different teams and users. Web Developers are at the center of this flow, directing the content management systems and software used to successfully update the Web. Web Developers must perform application maintenance, content and technical analysis, and project management.
- Database Development and Administration
Database experts handle the most valuable asset of any organzation: information. As a database administrator you will gather data to determine user requirements, then build an information architecture for data queries and reports. Your skills include analysis, database design and modeling, implementation, testing, security, and maintenance.
- Network Design & Administration
Network technicians ensure that users stay connected to the information they need. The Internet, intranets, extranets, LANs, WANs, and telephone networks need the support of network design and administration experts 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Programming/Software Engineering/Web Application Development
Web programmers design and create software for Internet-based applications. Your code helps serve customer requirements, helps your company visualize ideas, and keeps the organization running smoothly while sharing data and information. A programmer must perform needs analysis, design programs, and perform testing and validation of systems.
- Technical Writing
Technical Writers are involved with Web projects from beginning to end. First, they help define technical requirements of a project. Then they define and write the technical documents to explain, translate and interpret projects. Typical job functions include writing, editing, marketing and publishing documents for products, training, policies and so forth.
