M2RTY
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agency rang me today to put forward my cv for ICT manager role
always worked for global companies, would be quite a good change given ecconomic situation
pros/cons of working in a college please?
thanks
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Colin
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Ian
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Ian
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Pros - it's the right industry to be in right now.
Cons - there's no money, there will be a legacy of underinvestment, the hardware and software will probably be majority heterogeneous. And your users are mostly non-IT and some like breaking stuff.
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M2RTY
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35k a year sound okish?
aged 25 now
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Ian
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You'll know that based on your experience.
Depends who you are reporting to and the size of the organisation. If that was proper head of IT then no, the guy who runs ours is on £50k and the people under him £30k each. So you're doing better than the middle management but I wouldn't want to run anywhere too large for that money.
Which college it is anyway?
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M2RTY
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bishop aukland college
report to finance director
quite large place
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Ian
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Did you go for it already? Closing date is today at noon.
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Ian
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Christ - responsible for all IT in the college, office and admin, curricular, employer training and outreach, and comms.
And you get to be a duty manager as well, that's staying late and dealing with randoms who walk in off the street while night classes are going on, and also once a week being the guy that has to bollock people when they mess about in areas that aren't timetabled, corriders, the lift, the bikesheds you name it.
How many students?
[Edited on 26-02-2009 by Ian]
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M2RTY
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agency passed my CV on yesterday
sounds like they can gTF really lol, cheers
i would say a good few hundred?
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Ian
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If it's in the hundreds then fair enough, perhaps that is OK. It looks small by the money and the fact they have some pastoral stuff in the job spec. So you would probably need to deal with kids. My place has 30k and enough staff to cope so none of the IT management staff have student contact as such. Smaller college wouldn't be in that position.
I wouldn't rule it out if it's a career step but it'll certainly be a challenge if you've never done anything in education before.
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Colin
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As a student in a college I wouldnt want to work in one, no offence Ian  
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Ian
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No I quite agree, it's not without its frustrations.
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Colin
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In the one im at they have IT support folk but there like out on the front line in the 'learner base' up against the spotty chavs dossing on myface all day. I feel pretty sorry for them. Office job wouldnt be bad but all these modern colleges are open plan....sack that 
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Ian
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That job won't be dealing with students directly in anything helpdesk but because its a managerial there's a degree of responsibility for the buildings. In mine if anything goes on at all there's a mobile phone which the duty manager carries and they get called to deal.
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flybikeslee
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Pros- Fit students
Cons- you'll be one if you dare
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