How could a student (with a master in web engineering) face it's futur job in the web industry? Most of us know that working in any sectors like the Internet requires various capabilities as well as knowlegdes about the many professions one will have to interact with.
Ten years ago, no one would have thought that an occupation such as a webcontent-manager, would have had it's full place in the sector of the Internet. We didn't speak about webmasters; webdesigners; webeditors; traffic analysts; network architects; web administrators; website developers; web journalists; web editors; HTML integrators and so on...The list can never end.
So how can one keep up with all these new jobs?
Students have to choose their studies regarding the jobs that are being created and recruiters must be ripping their hairs off trying to choose the right man for the right job in all these new specializations. But more than that, how does one working in the web sector since then be aware of who these new collegues are/will be? How should he collaborate with them when their job didn't exist at the time? Has he or she any knowledge of their capabilities and will they speak the same language?... And what about if some jobs just happened to disapear.
I mean this sector is a real-live-mutan, pardon the new-made expression if it doesn't fit.How should a student know the Master diploma he or she is doing willlead to a job on the way out?
This fall i began a degree in web engineering. And well..It's not what you could think it is. I'm not learning how to program websites! There are two options actually in this diploma :
The first one prepares to a projet officer job. Of course one has to know enough about programming to assist to be selected in this option.
the first option prepares you to webcontent managing. Now what is that? of course the meaning can't be very clear, and that's a real problem. Well it is actually translated from the French word :"Gestion de contenus". "Gestion" wich means managing, and "contenus" that could best be translated by content. Well...I could say a content manager if you rather. Wich can recall the application CMS : Content Manager System. Well I won't give any example of those for my aim is not to advertise.
So let us get back to the issue of the option I chose in this Master wich purpose is to prepare futur content managers. It is said , but it is only said so let us be carefull here, that this job is in full expansion and that we won't have any problems doing a carreer in that. What we are taught is how to exploit any website, by it's content to it's fullest potentialities, in a way. And how to optimize it's presentation, design, number of visitors and so on. I also learn languages such as HTML; XML;PHP. More because I will have to interact with programmers and webmasters, wich means we will have to speak in the same terms to one another. I find myself really loving what I'm learning. But truth is I will end up with a degree and won't have any qualifications in building any applications other than a basic website .
But I will not blame our Director for that. The technologies are changing so fast and there are so many of them that it has become impossible for our teachers to select one or two of them as examples. I can only learn the how's by my myself. And it's all about keeping up to date with technologies used to build fourms, chats, robots and other small applications. And to make progress I try to learn what's new everyday.
I truly believe the bests are the ones that learn by their selves for they aren't limited by the academic programs. And keeping updated is more or less what is required in todays jobs as well, and it's even more true with the Internet sector. That goes for any jobs in relation with that sector. But it's easier to say than to do.
Bineta TOURE, Metz_France
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