Career Mash

    As I browse through the CareerMash website, I see different videos about people and their careers. Under the career tab at the bottom of the main page, I selected career profiles, to see what CareerMash has to offer me.
    What's your CareerMash? Am I a Leader, an Innovator, a Builder or Problem Solver? Sure, I can lead, but I often prefer not to always take the lead in certain situations because I like to work with a group of people. An Innovator is a huge job; considering I would have to find a solution to a big problem. Building might work for me because I do enjoy creating new ideas and a bit of hands on projects. I also think that problem solving in this tech field would be suitable for my future career. But then again, I never really know exactly what I will be or do in the future. So as I continue to look for pages of interesting jobs, I find under industry, retail.


    I chose retail because it's the field that includes almost everyday needs and necessities, such as groceries, pharmacies, electronics, furniture, and of course, fashion and many others. Retail IT professionals strive to make life easier for everyone. A couple jobs in retail that I thought I could do was a Digital Marketing Specialist and an Enterprise Architect.
    A Digital Marketing Specialist make sure technologies used by the company lead to the best possible shopping experience. I like to look at shoe and clothing store websites for new fashion trends and styles. I guess with this job I would be able to create such use of the technologies used by such companies to give a good presentable markets.
    An Enterprise Architect work to help companies reach their big picture goals. They would also have to apply their business and tech skills to help companies draw up plans to change the world. I like to plan out things that will help create a new outlook.


    Veronika Saxena, manager of the Enterprise Architecture Governance at Canadian Tire; and an IT leader/innovator, that works in the retail industry said, "In high school, I wasn’t interested in IT because I thought it meant becoming a programmer or network specialist. Then I realized that tech is everywhere – and now I manage a team of tech people!".
    When I was reading through the profiles of some people who work in the retail industry, I read Veronika's and I automatically agreed with her statement. The reason why I wasn't at first interested in any of the other jobs was because I also thought I was going to become a programmer or network specialist. Sure those jubs are fun, but really there so many other tech jobs that I could find. I needed to expand my thoughts and open my eyes for what these tech jobs actually were.
    Veronika's job is to create and manage proccesses that make sure Canadian Tire does in tech, which advances their business goals. Her team works with different areas to help improve their effort of reaching their goals. She said working in retail is about finding ways to make shopping better. If I were to have the same career as she, I would need to attend Sheridan College and receive a Computer Programmer Diploma, the University of Guelph and receive an Honours Bachelor of Applied Computing, and Humber College and obtain an Advanced Diploma in Wireless and Telecommunications Technology; just as Veronika did.


    Through my tour around CareerMash, I didn't find too much careers that may be right for me. But as I got to know that there are many different fields and jobs of tech, I found that tech is everywhere! Technology is not about knowing how to program an application but how technology could benefit the world.