The analysis and comparisons of the two jobs
After getting the results from http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/best-jobs of “what job is best for me?” I found out that in this list of 10 jobs, 2 of them are about Law, 2 of them are about Computer Science, and 6 of them are about Financial and Business Management. The list was based on my personality and preference, which is pretty useful for me to find future jobs.
I am going to major in Computer Science and Engineering from this fall. Therefore, the two jobs – Vice President (VP) of Technology and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) were chosen from the list.
Vice President (VP) of Technology
The main work of a VP is to oversee and collect information and report to the higher level of the company, so it requires extraordinary computer knowledge and at least five years’ work experience. Meanwhile, it needs leadership and management ability. VP is a meaning job because it needs strong responsibility and persevering personalities. The average salary is about $151,525, and the probability of making a better salary raises only after 5-10 years. Based on a survey by PayScale, VPs are extremely satified with their jobs and play the important roles in their company.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
The CTO in most times is the highest position of a company’s technology part, which always need creativity and hard-working. Comparing to the VP, a CTO need more specific computer technological skills like Java, C++ according to the graph. CTO earns an average salary of $150K per year, which I will be pleased with. As far as I am concerned, CTO’s tasks are pretty meaningful for both personal development and for the worlds’ technological progress. Because people in this position need to update their knowledge and create new things all the time. Also, the possibility of getting a raise is pretty high. However, this work also need a lot of work experience, which means it is almost impossible for a student who was just graduate from university.
In conclusion, those two jobs are neither for bachelors but for experienced people who has already worked for several years. Maybe I will put them into my consideration in the future instead of the year when graduating from undergraduate school.
The other same points which let me care about is the number of male practitioners are much more than female’s – almost 97% to 3%. As far as I am concerned, this gender problem may be caused by fusty thought that females act worse than males on the science departments. However, according to the research in 2003 by Else-Quest and Hyde, when comparing the data from two international test – Math parts of TIMSS and PISA, males and females do familiar in the boss test, females even do better in TIMSS. So the inequality of gender will not hinder me to find the jobs.
Anyway, the precondition to get those jobs is having a strong knowledge system of computer science and technology. In my point of view, salary is significant. It is a direct standard to judge one’s job. A high salary will make me more satisfied and think it more meaningful of what I am doing. So salary may be the prime element when considering my job.
Reference:
Ceci S J, Ginther D K, Kahn S, et al. Women in academic science A changing landscape[J]. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2014, 15(3): 75-141.