Knowledge Management Jobs and MBA Programs in Wyoming

Many educational and employment opportunities are available for computer services directors in Wyoming. For computer services directors, there are 190 jobs in Wyoming and this is projected to grow by 18 percent to 220 jobs by 2016. Over the next 10 years, the national job pool is projected to rise by 16 percent, short of the state growth for computer services directors. In general, computer services directors create and implement information systems for a client firm and supervise their maintenance.

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State figures show that computer services directors in Wyoming earn $33 per hour or $68,000 per year on average. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $57 hourly or $118,000 per year on average.

Wyoming, also known as the Equality State, is home to 544,270 people. It's population has increased 10.2 percent over the last 10 years. The state capital is Cheyenne. There were 404,855 total jobs in 2008 and workers in Wyoming earned more than the previous year with an average annual income of $48,580, up from $46,726. The unemployment rate in Wyoming was 6.4 percent in 2009. It went up by 3.2 percentage points since the previous year. The number of residents with a college degree is 21.9 percent. This is under the national average.

The top employing fields in Wyoming include mining, mining (except oil), crude petroleum gas extraction and coal mining.

While being known for many things, one of the most noteworthy, the largest coal mine in the USA is Black Thunder located near Wright.

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.