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In an age where a lot of what we do is controlled by the push of a button, the click of a mouse, or a swipe of a credit card, knowing and understanding what Mission Critical means is crucial to all of our well beings.<\/p>\n

The term \u201cMission Critical\u201d refers to any factor of a system including equipment, process, procedure, or software whose failure will result in the failure of a business operation. If certain events take place that involve the failure of that software or equipment, or if some sort of natural disaster occurs, it could have a crippling effect on a company. When you consider an online business, its \u201cmission critical\u201d is its communication system. A water filtration company can\u2019t function if its water filter system is down. A restaurant will have to close if it can\u2019t get power or gas to fuel the oven. Databases and process control software are considered mission critical to a company that runs on mainframes or workstations. Emergency call centers, computerized hospital patient records, data storage centers, stock exchanges and any other operations dependent on a computer and communication systems have to be protected against downtime or shutdowns due to the system\u2019s mission-critical functions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are seeing mission critical positions vacated by the baby boomer generation and there aren\u2019t enough folks trained and ready to take their places.\u201d<\/p>\n

CCC Department Chair of Industrial Services, Mitchell Sepaugh, says the future of mission critical is now and having a workforce that is highly skilled and trained for mission critical type work is rapidly becoming more important. \u201cWe are seeing mission critical positions vacated by the baby boomer generation and there aren\u2019t enough folks trained and ready to take their places. There are over 10,000 people per day retiring in the information technology and mission critical service fields,\u201d Sepaugh says.<\/p>\n

Cleveland Community College recognizes this void and has two departments teaming up to get folks career ready in the mission critical field. The Industrial Services and Computer Information Technology departments offer classes in everything from facility automation to network security.\u00a0 \u201cWe have students who we are training right now who will have the skills necessary for mission critical type jobs. Mitch and I both understand that anyone who has the skills we offer in both computer information and automation will be prime candidates for these types of jobs,\u201d says Jonathan Davis, Department Chair of Computer Information Technology. Both say that a combination of information technology coupled with the instant switches of electronics engineering is what being ready for a career in mission critical is all about.<\/p>\n

Sepaugh and Davis also agree that Cleveland County has the pool of students who can train in this type of work. \u201cFormer mill and manufacturing workers have the logistical skills and can easily understand cause and effect and how to reverse it if the need arises. That\u2019s the type of worker that is needed for Mission Critical type work,\u201d Davis adds.<\/p>\n

CCC is also working closely with the 7×24 Exchange Carolinas Chapter to get students trained in this line of work. Davis says when you think about a mission critical organization there are many diverse skill requirements. \u201cThe goal of a mission critical organization is having a continuous up time of 24 hours a day, times seven days a week, times 365 days a year, and successfully doing this takes diverse skills\u2026everything from IT, project management, baseline skills, mechanical and HVAC, electronics engineering, commodities, Building Management System software, operations, and security.\u201d<\/p>\n

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