Career In Meteorology

I'm pursing a degree in meteorology and do you think it will look good if I earn an IT Tech certificate?

Meteorology deals with sciences but also with many computers and I thought it may look better on me if I earn such credentials.

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1. I'm currently doing my uni degree in meteorology and I've only done one subject in IT about programming my tutor told me it'd be better for me to do more math and physic's rather than IT. But hey the more credentials (as long as their good / high marks or ranks) the better.
2. In my opinion, i think that will open some doors for you. There will always be a need for somebody who can forecast and have good computer skills, including programing and IT related skills. I think somebody with strong skills in both will be welcome in many meteorology related career field positions. With the current job situation where there are so many candidates and so little positions, anything you can do to put yourself ahead of others would be a real advantage to you. Here is an example of the strong need for computer skills in NOAA: This link is to a NOAA public document, "Strategic Human Capital Management Plan: Developing, Valuing, and Sustaining a World-Class Workforce FY 2006-FY 2011. http://www.wfm.noaa.gov/pdfs/Strategic_Human_Capital_Management_Plan.pdf In this document, it states: Technology "is changing so rapidly and dramatically that all organizations, public and private, are having difficulty obtaining and maintaining the skills needed to plan for and operationalize their technology requirements. In NOAA, this encompasses not only standard information technology (IT), but also the highly sophisticated equipment used in programs. NOAA’s strategic goals envision an agency capable of developing new technologies, providing integrated data sets for decision support and management systems, enhancing data management and analysis capabilities, and providing easy accessibility of environmental data by the public. The need for knowledge and skills in state-of-the-art technologies is also required by the President’s Management Agenda emphasis on E-Government. A human capital management strategy must take into account the recruitment and retention programs that will be necessary to attract and keep employees with needed IT and other technology skills and knowledge."
3. Can't hurt.
4. I recently obtained my masters degree in meteorology (I also have my bachelors in atmospheric science). I took one computer course during my undergraduate studies. I ended up learning a great deal of computer skills while I was a graduate student. Though, it would have been beneficial if I had had more computer skills. The skills you would likely be looking to have for meteorology purposes are: -knowledge of UNIX (what it is, basic commands) -knowledge of how to use a good text editor in UNIX (text editors like vi, emacs, pico) -> vi is the most robust I have found and quite widely used. -knowledge of how to write programs in different computer languages (such as php, html, fortran, perl) -Other things: knowing about how to write to a database (with mysql) The w3schools website has info on a lot of different programming languages. It might be worth checking their site out. If you can learn those computer skills at IT Tech it would be worth it to go there, otherwise it might not be. A lot of meteorology jobs now a days are computer (and computational) based. The more you know about computers the better.