tessygirl:
12th of July 2014 I passed out from service. My friend with whom I was staying with, spent her service year with some ICT schools in Ibadan to learn ICT skills, while I stayed behind. She later got a top job while I managed with a small secondary school. I later moved to Lagos and got a job as an Admin person with a small hotel.

About a year later, I got a Teller Job with a new generation bank and I was working my ass off with a small paycheck. My other friend was already attending conferences and posting all sort of executive pictures online (It was so intimidating). The sacking spree then started in most banks, and I was affected. But I discovered that the I.T guys at the backroom were always confident despite lots of sacks going on. “Why can’t I be like them?” I asked myself. “Do they have 2 heads?” I asked again.

Currently I am working with a big ISP firm in Lagos and I am doing wonderfully well in terms of Finance. I don’t write this post to show off but to tell other people reasons why they should learn ICT skills even if their job role is not related!



So many Job opportunities

God knows that this month alone, I have seen countless number of Digital Marketing jobs, Software Development Jobs, Hardware and Brand Communication jobs. But I come up this forum and still see people begging for jobs. ICT is like a virgin field in Nigeria, yet to be crowded (I tell you from experience) unless you don’t know your skill well. I am already thinking of attending Digital Marketing Training, just in case my present employer messes up or I see a higher job offer (As I intend to leave the country and become a full digital Marketer like Click here to see how it was explained in this Post You also see reasons to learn ICT skills?

Peace of Mind

Even if you are sacked today, a competitor is waiting to utilize your ICT skill. A Digital Marketer with Pepsi can easily switch to Coca-cola with ease, even if the post isn’t vacant. A Network Engineer with Cobranet can switch to IPNX, even if they don’t advertise the position. Which other job sector can afford you that privilege?

Multiple Job Roles

Only ICT jobs gives you the priviledge of handling two or more jobs at the same time. During my learning period, I was a bank teller but also carry out networking jobs during weekends. I know how many times I collected sick leave just to help set up a CBT center in Lagos. The revenue was 2x my monthly salary. As a H.R person, can you handle more than two job roles at once? Hell NO!

But Imagine if you had a skill like – let’s say Digital Marketing alongside your H.R skills, can’t you help manage someone’s business online while you do your day job? We have to open our eyes to the fact that ICT rules!!!

Utility Staff

They will marvel at how a Teller girl could offer Networking advice to our Engineers. They wanted to retain me, but someone was offering a higher pay. I have knowledge of accounting, I am a Network Engineer and I am about to learn More. Call me a jack of a trade – no problems, but I am a master of all.

Higher Pay

A small Business man or Enterpreneur with Digital Marketing knowledge and the one without, who would generate a higher revenue? A H.R person with Oracle Database Administrator skill and the one without, who will get a higher pay?

An accountant who can develop a solution to help solve a problem in his firm and the one who is only an End user, who will get a higher pay?

If nothing else would convince you to learn ICT skills, I hope this will convince you.

Steps to take to learn ICT skills

i) Determine what skill would help you achieve any of the following above

ii) Choose where to learn

iii) Pay and start – it might be expensive or might not be, but it is worth every penny.

iv) Graduate and start living your dreams.

Questions about the right skill? please use the comment section and I will respond. Thanks.

Originally written by Tessygirl

Source: http://topwritersden.com/reason-learn-ict-skills-jobs/

cc: lalasticlala please find this post worth. Thanks. Let's others who might not be aware exposure about the I.T field.

I really want to learn ict. I was learning html and css before then I stopped cos of the codes, I don't like codes at all. Whoch branch of ict should I learn that doesn't require coding? Does Networking require coding?

mykh01:

I will be glad if u can help me out, i really need to get something doing, especially what will be of benefit. I studied philosophy

philosophy and ICT? Baba, haba? Cant you even hear how odd it sounds?

As a graduate of Business Administration and management, what ICT skill can you recommend?
Thanks

I have a certificate in computer software b4 I went to uni, by his grace am a graduate in pure n industrial chemistry n will b rounding up my nysc by October. What ICT skills do I venture into cos it has been on my mind for a long time now. Thanks in advance

bravesoul247:
I really want to learn ict. I was learning html and css before then I stopped cos of the codes, I don't like codes at all. Whoch branch of ict should I learn that doesn't require coding? Does Networking require coding?

Not at all. Networking, Hardware Engineering, Graphics, Digital Marketing

CurrentSamuel:


Pls How long would it to Learn the ICT for one who has no single Knowledge on Computer...No single Knowledge at all.

Minimum of 2 days and maximum of your life time

A course like Digital Marketing can be learn't in 2 days.

while others like Networking can be learnt in 3 months.

Some like software Dev can go up to 8 months.

goldenceo1:


my personal observation I say but again your write up will 100% fail copycat test for biafrabushboy article. The thread only sets up the stage for your big allies to come do what they know are to do best. The presence of iiht, biafranbushboy n fela40 comments on the thread says it all to ascertain my curiosity. those name are synonymous with one brand iiht.

PS: my personal observation. IIHT still remains the best....

But do you know that none of them works with the aforementioned firm? lol

or you felt he wrote and gave to me?

mykh01:

I don't get this, i don't understand what you mean by IIHT

It is an I.T training school in Lagos.

wow. See where my first official thread has gotten to. Thanks to all who commented.

Thanks to lalasticlala. Thanks.

hpymoment:
I have a certificate in computer software b4 I went to uni, by his grace am a graduate in pure n industrial chemistry n will b rounding up my nysc by October. What ICT skills do I venture into cos it has been on my mind for a long time now. Thanks in advance

Learn a programming language or scripting language. none is easy, but thank me later.

For easy ones, blogging is no 1 then hardware maintenance. Your choice is limited till you have the basics.

I dont have any educational background in ICT, but I have learnt HTML, CSS, and still learning JavaScript. I believe the three languages above are what majorly constitute web design.

While learning, I came across new terms such as UI/UX design and front end design. I would like the gurus in the house to briefly school me on those terms in a layman language.

Secondly, apart from the three languages I mentioned above, what other languages do I need to learn to become a UI/UX or frontend designer?

Cc:
tessygirl
yinkeys
attention007
simiolu1

phetty:
I dont have any educational background in ICT, but I have learnt HTML, CSS, and still learning JavaScript. I believe the three languages above are what majorly constitute web design.

While learning, I came across new terms such as UI/UX design and front end design. I would like the gurus in the house to briefly school me on those terms in a layman language.

Secondly, apart from the three languages I mentioned above, what other languages do I need to learn to become a UI/UX or frontend designer?

Cc:
tessygirl
yinkeys
attention007
simiolu1

You can ask the others, I'm not so deep into this stuff.
Hope you know the differences between a website designer & a developer?

yinkeys:

You can ask the others, I'm not so deep into this stuff.
Hope you know the differences between a website designer & a developer?

A web designer focuses on the look and interactivity of a web page (client-side).

A web developer focuses on the functionality of a web page (server-side).

I don't know if my definitions above are sufficient.

tessygirl:


But do you know that none of them works with the aforementioned firm? lol

or you felt he wrote and gave to me?

I'll trade my left ball for this simple observation biafranbushboy wrote this article for you to publish....

IIHT still remains the best IT guru centre.....

tessygirl:

It is an I.T training school in Lagos.

Owk, but do u think i stand a chance, i studied philosophy.

Hello Tessygirl

Sent you a pm
Chommieblaq@gmail.com

phetty:
I dont have any educational background in ICT, but I have learnt HTML, CSS, and still learning JavaScript. I believe the three languages above are what majorly constitute web design.

While learning, I came across new terms such as UI/UX design and front end design. I would like the gurus in the house to briefly school me on those terms in a layman language.

Secondly, apart from the three languages I mentioned above, what other languages do I need to learn to become a UI/UX or frontend designer?

Cc:
tessygirl
yinkeys
attention007
simiolu1

Immediately you start writing markup (HTML), you have begun some form of programming. So technically, it is no longer design but development. A lot of people think the terms are synonymous but they aren't. And understanding the difference between them would save you from confusion later on.

Design does not involve any form of coding; that is why design tools include Photoshop, Balsamiq, Gravit, Sketch etc while development tools include text editors (notepad, notepad++, VS Code, Atom, Sublime etc) plus other software depending on your use case.

There is nothing like front-end design; only front-end development. What training schools and people tag as front-end design is actually User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) design.

UX/UI design is the process of transforming a digital product from an idea to a concept or enhancing user satisfaction, usability and accessibility of a digital product.

The reason I said concept for the first part of my definition is that design processes do not directly produce the digital product. It's like the way architects draw building plans. The building plan is not the final outcome; it still has to be built with brick and mortar. But it is a concept that if followed, would result in a building that people can live in. So for digital products, the UX/UI design process produces wireframes, mockups, high fidelity pictures of how the digital product would look like. It also produces personas, user stories etc.

Read the links below to understand more

https://medium.com/usable/rethinking-hotels-ng-886f6e25f1bf

https://medium.com/startup-grind/i-got-rejected-by-apple-music-so-i-redesigned-it-b7e2e4dc64bf

To answer your last question. Technically, you don't need to learn any programming language to be a UX/UI designer. What you need to learn about instead are colours, composition, sketching, user experience research, design guidelines and patterns, and then design tools like the ones I listed above.

But this is where I need to say this caveat: a lot of UX/UI designers write HTML, CSS and Javascript. This is not to say you must learn how to code when you are a designer. But writing HTML, CSS and JS when you are a bad ass designer would get you hired before someone who is only a designer. It is simply a case of killing two birds with the same stone. In the thread below, a guy comes up with the design, then other guys jump on it.

https://radar.techcabal.com/t/ui-with-figma-design-delivered-daily/13299

But the road to becoming an experienced front-end developer is still long. You have a lot of ground ahead of you. See attached pictures and the youtube link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzRwzY7G-k&t=681s

tessygirl:


lol. Your last post caught me.

No free one bro. Anyone that tells you to go online for free wana make you waste your time.

Are you in Lagos? There is a digital Marketing course I will be attending, I saw the advert on the blog. You can also come alongside.

thanks but not a bro and yes I do stay in lagos....
do u know d price range 4 d most basic IT cos I need to learn from the scratch and where is d said marketing course taking place.

abeg who sabi ultramedia solution b4 I go register with them ( am interested in Web design and development) thanks

dharmzie18:


thanks but not a bro and yes I do stay in lagos....
do u know d price range 4 d most basic IT cos I need to learn from the scratch and where is d said marketing course taking place.

As for the basic course you need to start with, it depends on your interests and abilities. So I can't really choose for you.

But some of the basic courses are;

CompTIA A+ (Hardware Engineering)
CompTIA N+ (Networking +)
CCNA (Cisco Certified Networking Associate)
IC3 (International core computing)
Digital Marketing (All about how to build a successful business online)

The digital marketing is holding @

77 Ojuelegba str, at Surulere

It is quite cheap. I paid 20k for registration.

simiolu1:



Immediately you start writing markup (HTML), you have begun some form of programming. So technically, it is no longer design but development. A lot of people think the terms are synonymous but they aren't. And understanding the difference between them would save you from confusion later on.

Design does not involve any form of coding; that is why design tools include Photoshop, Balsamiq, Gravit, Sketch etc while development tools include text editors (notepad, notepad++, VS Code, Atom, Sublime etc) plus other software depending on your use case.

There is nothing like front-end design; only front-end development. What training schools and people tag as front-end design is actually User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) design.

UX/UI design is the process of transforming a digital product from an idea to a concept or enhancing user satisfaction, usability and accessibility of a digital product.

The reason I said concept for the first part of my definition is that design processes do not directly produce the digital product. It's like the way architects draw building plans. The building plan is not the final outcome; it still has to be built with brick and mortar. But it is a concept that if followed, would result in a building that people can live in. So for digital products, the UX/UI design process produces wireframes, mockups, high fidelity pictures of how the digital product would look like. It also produces personas, user stories etc.

Read the links below to understand more

https://medium.com/usable/rethinking-hotels-ng-886f6e25f1bf

https://medium.com/startup-grind/i-got-rejected-by-apple-music-so-i-redesigned-it-b7e2e4dc64bf

To answer your last question. Technically, you don't need to learn any programming language to be a UX/UI designer. What you need to learn about instead are colours, composition, sketching, user experience research, design guidelines and patterns, and then design tools like the ones I listed above.

But this is where I need to say this caveat: a lot of UX/UI designers write HTML, CSS and Javascript. This is not to say you must learn how to code when you are a designer. But writing HTML, CSS and JS when you are a bad ass designer would get you hired before someone who is only a designer. It is simply a case of killing two birds with the same stone. In the thread below, a guy comes up with the design, then other guys jump on it.

https://radar.techcabal.com/t/ui-with-figma-design-delivered-daily/13299

But the road to becoming an experienced front-end developer is still long. You have a lot of ground ahead of you. See attached pictures and the youtube link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzRwzY7G-k&t=681s

Respec dear.

I know little or nothing from all what you have written.

Kintomadit:
abeg who sabi ultramedia solution b4 I go register with them ( am interested in Web design and development) thanks

I no sabi. Na name of a company be that?

Check out their reviews here on Nairaland. If they are good, go ahead with them

mykh01:

Owk, but do u think i stand a chance, i studied philosophy.

I studied Economics. If I stand a chance as a lady, why won't you?

Chommieblaq:
Hello Tessygirl

Sent you a pm
Chommieblaq@gmail.com

I will reply now dear.

tessygirl:

I studied Economics. If I stand a chance as a lady, why won't you?

Thank you so much.

Kamxin:


It depends on what you like seeing done with computer.
If you are into research there are ones you can learn.
Yes, blogging is an aspect. I recommend it for you.

Which one should a researcher learn?

phetty:
I dont have any educational background in ICT, but I have learnt HTML, CSS, and still learning JavaScript. I believe the three languages above are what majorly constitute web design.

While learning, I came across new terms such as UI/UX design and front end design. I would like the gurus in the house to briefly school me on those terms in a layman language.

Secondly, apart from the three languages I mentioned above, what other languages do I need to learn to become a UI/UX or frontend designer?

Cc:

Speak to Usman Abiola on FB. Or you can ask Um@r Ader.ibigbe to link you.

Best wishes

tessygirl:

Minimum of 2 days and maximum of your life time
A course like Digital Marketing can be learn't in 2 days.
while others like Networking can be learnt in 3 months.
Some like software Dev can go up to 8 months.

WOW!! Minimum of 2days.. that's awesome. I must do something before my time

Please if I may ask, which of these ict skills is the most lucrative and seriously in demand now in Nigeria?

preciousnobel:
Which one should a researcher learn?

chematix, chemcad, CISPro. plenty to mention

Quadre:


What about in IKEJA? Address pls...

We don't have at Ikeja Sir. But the huge discount we give will comfortably take care of your transportation.