Knowledge Management Jobs and MBA Programs in Alaska

For a computing services director, Alaska is a land of educational and employment opportunities. For computer services directors, there are 420 jobs in Alaska and this is projected to grow by 15 percent to 430 jobs by 2016. However, this is not quite as good as the national trend for computer services directors, which sees the job pool growing at about 16 percent over the next 10 years. In general, computer services directors create and implement information systems for a client firm and supervise their maintenance.

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In Alaska, the income for computer services directors is $42 per hour or $88,000 per year. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $57 hourly or $118,000 per year on average.

Alaska, also known as the Great Land, is home to 698,473 people. It has seen its population grow by 11.4 percent over the last 10 years. The capital is Juneau. In 2008, there were a total of 452,986 jobs and at $43,922, the average annual income in Alaska was higher than the previous year's per capita figure of $41,081. The unemployment rate in Alaska was 8.0 percent in 2009. It rose by 1.5 percentage points from the previous year. Roughly 24.7 percent of state residents have college degrees. This falls short of the national average.

In Alaska, the top employers are in oil extraction, transportation, general merchandise stores and other general merchandise stores.

While being known for many things, one of the most noteworthy, Prudhoe Bay, on the northern Alaskan coast, is North America's largest oil field. One of the unique tidbits about Alaska is Agattu, Attu, and Kiska are the only parts of North America occupied by Japanese troops during World War II.

Knowledge Management

Computer services directors create and implement information systems for a client firm and supervise their maintenance.

They regularly design computer data resources, providing for data security and control and disaster recovery and evaluate the organization's technology use and needs and recommend improvements.

They are required to evaluate the effectiveness of systems in order to improve their performance. Also, they must use core mathematical skills in problem solving.

Computer services directors must be able to articulate ideas and problems. They should also have the ability to listen to and understand others in meetings.

In order to be successful in the workplace, computer services directors must be reliable and believe in an agile approach to problem solving and deal with change.