It depends where you are, and what sort of programming.
I'd take a look at your local job site (whatever the local equivalent to seek.com.au is for you) and see what they say.
Basically any job interview for this type of job will have a 'practical test' component where they'll ask you to show either something you've coded, or more likely to code something that should be well within your trained capabilities for them in a 10 minute exercise.
The sky is the limit on education, one language or many, specialise or generalise. More common languages will have more opportunities, but more competition (especially at entry levels) and lower rates of pay than either more complicated or more in demand languages.
If you are still interested but have very limited programming experience you could consider an entry level position somewhere in either IT support (which will give you a broad touch of many languages/concepts) or something like project support/analytical work where you may wind up in a role that requires some knowledge and uses organisational and programming skills (which you might already have). Business analysts and project managers tend to fall one of two sides - either they are 'people-people' who get the project defined and moving, or 'analytical people' who do the IT side of things including knowing SQL and similar code to query data from databases (although all good analysts will have those skills) and coding knowledge to see IT changes through etc.
I'd take a look at your local job site (whatever the local equivalent to seek.com.au is for you) and see what they say.
Basically any job interview for this type of job will have a 'practical test' component where they'll ask you to show either something you've coded, or more likely to code something that should be well within your trained capabilities for them in a 10 minute exercise.
The sky is the limit on education, one language or many, specialise or generalise. More common languages will have more opportunities, but more competition (especially at entry levels) and lower rates of pay than either more complicated or more in demand languages.
If you are still interested but have very limited programming experience you could consider an entry level position somewhere in either IT support (which will give you a broad touch of many languages/concepts) or something like project support/analytical work where you may wind up in a role that requires some knowledge and uses organisational and programming skills (which you might already have). Business analysts and project managers tend to fall one of two sides - either they are 'people-people' who get the project defined and moving, or 'analytical people' who do the IT side of things including knowing SQL and similar code to query data from databases (although all good analysts will have those skills) and coding knowledge to see IT changes through etc.
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