Employment Opportunities

New Jobs (those that were created by the technology)

• Web Designer
• Network Administrator
• IT Consultant
• IT Teacher
• Games Designer
• IT technicians
• Computer Sales
• Software Engineers
• Hardware Engineer
• Manufacturer of Technology
• Programmers
• Technical Support (Call Centres)
• Computer Security System Designer & Testers
• U-Tube Video makers
• Website managers
• Database managers

Jobs that have changed

• Sky Television Installers (there were TV installers before satellite TV was invented)
• Bloggers (previously pamphlets makers)
• Accounts
• Banking
• Shop Workers
• Film Makers
• Music Makers
• Postal Workers
• Typists (reduced as more people able to write their own letters)

Jobs that have reduced or disappeared

• shorthand typists
• ticket collectors on stations
• gas light lighters
• chimney sweeps
• thatchers
• fletchers
• stage coach drivers (became taxi drivers)
• domestic servants (new technology has meant people could do these things themselves oremploy fewer people to do the same amount of work)

As we have seen there a lots of jobs that have been created by the introduction of new technology.  Read Pages 24 and 25 of GCE Applied ICT book.  Then complete the tasks set out on page 25.