I.T. PROFESSIONAL

1. WHAT IS PROFESSIONAL?

• Professional is a broad term or wide term that really hard to explain or express..But there are still points that to be considered in order to define this term.
• Professional define as follows:

1. a member of a vocation founded upon specialized educational training.
2. a person who has obtained a professional level degree.
3. used more generally to denote a white collar working person, or a person who performs commercially in a field typically reserved for hobbyists or amateurs.
4. In United States, the term Professional, commonly describes highly educated, mostly salaried workers, who enjoy considerable work autonomy, economic security, a comfortable salary, and are commonly engaged in creative and intellectually challenging work.. Less technically, it may also refer to a person having impressive competence in a particular activity.
5. engaged in one of the learned professions or characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession or exhibiting a courteous, conscientious, and generally businesslike manner in the workplace or participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs or having a particular profession as a permanent career. It is also means engaged in by persons receiving financial return or following a line of conduct as though it were a profession .
6. pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. "Pride, not personal, but professional."
7. A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker
8. Person formally certified by a professional body of belonging to a specific profession by virtue of having completed a required course of studies and/or practice. And whose competence can usually be measured against an established set of standards.
9. Person who has achieved an acclaimed level of proficiency in a calling or trade.
10. Academic qualifications - a doctoral or law degree - i.e., university college/institute.
11. Expert and specialized knowledge in field which one is practicing professionally.
12. Excellent manual/practical and literary skills in relation to profession.
13. High quality work in (examples): creations, products, services, presentations, consultancy, primary/other research, administrative, marketing or other work endeavors.
14. A high standard of professional ethics, behavior and work activities while carrying out one's profession (as an employee, self-employed person, career, enterprise, business, company, or partnership/associate/colleague, etc).
15. Reasonable work moral and motivation.
16. Having interest and desire to do a job well as well as holding positive attitude towards the profession are important elements in attaining a high level of professionalism

2. WHEN CAN YOU SAY A PERSON IS A PROFESSIONAL OR UNPROFESSIONAL?

• A PROFESSIONAL person who has obtained a professional level degree or characteristic of a profession or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession. He or She also exhibiting a courteous, conscientious, and generally businesslike manner in the workplace or in public or following a line of conduct as though it were a profession, and participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs. A person of having or showing great skill; expert; with a good or mateur conduct or behavior or characteristics towards others. It is also A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur. As MACAULAY DE QUICEY says "Pride, not personal, but professional."
• UNPROFESSIONAL person is an amatuer person. Even though some of them were high educated or graduated or obtained a professional level degree but no characteristis of a profession he or she has achieve. They are also called as rank amateur. In short, they never follow or eternalized or adapt or absorb the teaching from the school for many years or the profession they are taking especially the proper behavior or conduct as a professional or what we call, the code of ethics as a professional.
• The bottom line of this is that, A professional does something as a profession, or receives payment for some activity. But this is not the point. The point is "professional" can indicate that someone has great skill in a craft or activity, or that something demonstrates such skill. To conduct oneself as a professional (exhibiting "professional behavior") would indicate that the person's actions remain in accordance with specific rules, written or unwritten, pertaining to the standards of a profession. The opposite of "professional" is "amateur" (disparagingly: "rank amateur").
• For Example: Many people are entertained by watching sport and are willing to pay to watch. This allows some contestants to make a living as professionals by getting paid to play professional sports. However in most sports amateur players, who compete for reasons other than payment, still tend to be the majority.
• In many cases someone can perform the exact same craft or task, and the only difference between a professional and an amateur consists in the payment of the one but not the other. In many areas a person must overcome a barrier before gaining recognition as a professional. Such barriers include academic degrees, certifications, or licenses. Professions with such barriers include those of accountants, architects, doctors, engineers, lawyers, librarians, nurses, social workers, teachers and etc. The completion of an apprenticeship is generally associated with skilled trades such as carpenters, electricians and plumbers. Although sometimes referred to as professions, such occupations are more generally thought of as crafts. Compare the usage of "occupation", which does not imply the exclusivity and special nature of the "professional"

3. DEFINE I.T. PROFESSIONAL

1. I.T. PROFESSIONAL is quite broad in a sense but recognizable now a days. It is also one of the widest term or meaning or definition in a Information Technology World or Generation X.
2. I.T. PROFESSIONAL is a person who has obtained an applied computer systems - (both hardware and software, and often including networking and telecommunications, usually in the context of a business or other enterprise), level degree or characteristic of a profession or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession which he or she also exhibiting a courteous, conscientious, and generally businesslike manner in the workplace or in public or following a line of conduct as though it were a profession, and participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by other professional and amateurs. A person of having or showing great skill; expert in Information Technology equipment or devices as well as the updated general information in the society; with a good or mateur conduct or behavior or characteristics towards others.
3. I.T. PROFESSIONAL is also called PEOPLEWARE in I.T. World. Because it refers to the people who work with the computer so that it can be used to find solutions to problems and refer also to persons who used the information generated by the computer. It is a profession that study of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware which deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, transmit and retrieve information, securely. I.T. Professional perform a variety of duties that range from installing applications to designing complex computer networks and information databases. A few of the duties that IT professionals perform may include: • Data Management • Computer Networking • Database Systems Design • Software design • Management Information Systems • Systems management, and etc. especially deals with electronic computers.
4. I.T. Professional is a profession who use of computers and software to manage information. It is also a profession that design, construction and programming of computers. This broad definition encompasses a few major areas such as hardware, software and networking. Advanced areas involve artificial intelligence, robotics and biomedical forensics. For instance, the information technology department of a large company would be responsible for storing information, protecting information, processing the information, transmitting the information as necessary, and later retrieving information as necessary. A profession that deals, study, observed, and adapt the scientific, technological and engineering disciplines and the managerial techniques used in information handling and processing; their applications; computers and their interaction with men and machines and associates social, economic and cultural matters.
5. I.T. Professional is also a branch profession of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information like applied science, engineering science, technology, engineering, and etc. It involved with the transmission and storage of information, especially the development, installation, implementation, and management of computer systems within companies, universities, and other organizations.