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| IEEE Job Site Career Alert for 1 June 2011 |
| Your bi-weekly report on jobs, education, management, and the engineering workplace, from the editors of IEEE Spectrum. |
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| 4. China: The World's Career On-Ramp? |
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It seems that China is quickly becoming a highly regarded option for
recent graduates from Western countries who are looking to burnish their résumés
in hopes of getting a leg up on their competitors for positions at
multinational corporations. By going to China, they hope to land their first
jobs faster, open themselves up to new experiences, and be given
responsibilities that, at U.S. or European firms, they wouldn’t likely be
trusted with until they have “paid their dues” with menial tasks. CRCC Asia, a
London-based recruitment consultancy, says it has received more than 1000 applications
for internships so far this year, compared with 250 in all of 2009. Read On.
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| 2. Get Back to Being Goal Oriented |
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Are you working on your career goals regularly or just thinking about
them? It’s easy for years to slip by without you making any progress if you
keep “waiting for the right time to begin.” A California Job Journal article
offers some help in getting back on track if your pursuit of your goals has
become derailed. The first bit of advice is to create a map that lays out the
steps between where you are and where you want to be. The article also reminds
us that Rome wasn’t built in a day; small steps over an extended period can
result in big gains. Read on.
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| 3. The Certification Express |
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Is it possible to
learn all that is required to earn a technical certification—and actually hope
to retain it—in one week? Well, that is the premise under which the students at
a class at Greenville Tech, in South Carolina, are laboring at a tech boot camp
aimed at padding resumes in a fraction of the 90 days it normally takes to earn
a certificate in one of the school’s traditional career-focused training
courses. The director of marketing for Greenville Tech’s career development
program said that boot camp option is best suited to people with some IT
experience. For those without a technical background, he recommends a two-week
program the school offers. Read on.
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| 1. Hiring Trends May Change Finance IT Career Paths |
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The standard career progression in the financial IT sector calls for
working at a financial services technology vendor then moving on to high-paying
jobs at investment banks. But analysts say that the route may be reversed as
investment banks scale back their IT hiring and technology vendors begin
bolstering their staffs. Though banks are poised to spend more money on IT over
the next year, they are looking to farm out technology management to firms such
as Calypso, Charles River, and Oracle in the belief that it will make their IT
operations more efficient and rid them of the burden of maintaining compliance
with laws. Read on.
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Controls Engineer, Sterling Engineering, Illinois, USA
Program Manager, nLIGHT, Oregon, USA
Electrical Project Engineer, H.F. Lenz Company, Pennsylvania, USA
AVP; Apps Prog Consultants, Bank of America, North Carolina, USA
Chief Scientist, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia
Quality Assurance Engineer, Charles River Analytics, Massachusetts, USA
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