Can career switch now?

[Erinyee]

If graduate from NYP in Diploma in engineering Informatics @2000. Now thinking of going back to IT industry, can anot?

Need any new certificate to get recognise? Short courses, programming language..etc.. can't commit full time study.

 

[a&w_rootbeerz]

In the IT industry, you need to constantly upgrade. Whatever you learn in year 2000 are obsolete. You definitely need IT certs in order to get back into IT line again.

 

[Erinyee]

Can help to name a few IT certs which can get me back into track? I like to do programming and IT security.

 

[seesiang]

Can help to name a few IT certs which can get me back into track? I like to do programming and IT security.

Good luck.

 

[intime]

Can help to name a few IT certs which can get me back into track? I like to do programming and IT security.

It will be better for you to boost your basic education with either a polytechnic specialist diploma or a part time unisim degree.
Then you may attempt do professional certifications concurrently or after your basic education,
https://portal.wda.gov.sg/content/wda/course-search-directory.html?Area=25&CourseTitle=nicf
Certification courses with names starting with nicf are subsidised by wda.

 

[seesiang]

It will be better for you to boost your basic education with either a polytechnic specialist diploma or a part time unisim degree.
Then you may attempt do professional certifications concurrently or after your basic education,
https://portal.wda.gov.sg/content/wda/course-search-directory.html?Area=25&CourseTitle=nicf
Certification courses with names starting with nicf are subsidised by wda.

there is no right no wrong answer

But I know one of my friend, he had a diploma and he used the fee for degree to pursue certificates.

He is quite successful now

 

[Renny]

You have to see which area you want to go to, current "hot" trends imho are

1. Cyber-security - general programming skills needed to analyze the logic of malware

2. Business Analytics - programming skills needed to develop .NET or Java based applications

3. Enterprise Private/Hybrid Cloud - programming skills needed for DevOps and automation. Chef, Puppet, Powershell

4. Big Data/Data Warehousing, Data Virtualization - Greenplum, tableau, delphix.

You can enroll in diploma courses or just attack any one of the areas above to start, IT now is vastly different from early 2000s...mainly because of Social media (Facebook, Instagram), e-commerce sites (Alibaba, Taobao), Internet of Things, BYOD, Virtualization, and IT security.

 

[campin]

year 2000 is quite long ago, you might need to learn alot of new frameworks nowadays programming style etc.... I think mostly what you learn't in 2000 will be useless already , you might catch up faster than some few fresh programmer though.

 

[ipevery]

year 2000 is quite long ago, you might need to learn alot of new frameworks nowadays programming style etc.... I think mostly what you learn't in 2000 will be useless already , you might catch up faster than some few fresh programmer though.

I beg to differ. The fundamental of IT has not change. Don't just learn a programming language. Learn the concept, programming language is just a tool to apply your concept. You can switch easily from C to Perl to Python to Ruby at ease if u know the fundamental. I have worked with fresh programmer who can write code very fast but lack of concept of software design. Eventually, we spend more time debugging the code :-(

 

[naruto77]

Assessing suitability

If graduate from NYP in Diploma in engineering Informatics @2000. Now thinking of going back to IT industry, can anot?

Need any new certificate to get recognise? Short courses, programming language..etc.. can't commit full time study.

I think best you assess if you are competent enough to do programming.

Unlike how the majority of society think, programming is more than just coding.

Critical thinking, abstraction of ideas, and problem solving skills are more important than the actual codes itself. This is where most people fail, they don't understand the concept and applications of algorithms, and not many can understand it.

I remember in a programming class that I was in, out of 70 students only 3 can actually make it as software developers.

So best you assess if your brain can actually handle the skill. Else, best you do something else.

Good luck!