Telecommunications Jobs and MBA Programs in Hawaii

There are plenty of job and employment prospects for information technology directors in Hawaii. In Hawaii, there are currently 970 jobs for information technology directors and this is projected to grow by 22 percent to 1,130 jobs by 2016. This growth falls short of the projected rise of the national job pool for information technology directors, which shows an increase of 23 percent over the next 10 years. In general, information technology directors install, configure, and support an organization's local area network, wide area network, and Internet system or a segment of a network system.

Hawaii photo by Christopher P. Becker

State figures show that information technology directors in Hawaii earn $30 per hour or $63,000 per year on average. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $33 hourly or $69,000 per year on average.

Nicknamed the Aloha State, Hawaii is home to 1,295,178 people. It's population has increased 6.9 percent over the last 10 years. The state capital is Honolulu. There were 873,749 total jobs in 2008 and workers in Hawaii earned more than the previous year with an average annual income of $42,078, up from $40,924. The unemployment rate in Hawaii was 6.8 percent in 2009. It went up by 2.8 percentage points since the previous year. The number of residents with a college degree is 26.2 percent. This is under the national average.

The top employing fields in Hawaii include hotels, clothing accessories stores, full-service restaurants and clothing stores.

Hawaii is known for having important landmarks. Two of the tallest mountains in the Pacific - Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa - dominate the center of the island. Most of the world's macadamia nuts are grown on the island. One of the many things Hawaii is known for, Haleakala Crater (Ha-lay-ah-ja-lah), is the world's largest dormant volcano.

Telecommunications

Information technology directors install, configure, and support an organization's local area network, wide area network, and Internet system or a segment of a network system.

They regularly maintain computer networks and related computing environments including both hardware and software. They also operate master consoles to track the performance of computer systems and direct computer network access and use.

They are required to evaluate the effectiveness of systems in order to improve their performance. Also, they must think through complex problems and develop a critical analysis of the situation and possible solutions.

Information technology directors should be able to articulate ideas and problems and think through problems and come up with general rules.

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