IT Career

A number of IT companies have job cuts. Yesterday, Yahoo7 has started job cuts. Previously, EDS and telstra has reduced the number of staff. Is it down turn of IT again?

Programmer is not only a coder! We need to care about the quality of codes. The codes need to be readable and maintainable! We do not do coding only.

I am more focused on Web Development in C# during these recent years. I have a two days off this week. This is a good time to learn some new things. Thus, I am learning C# Crypto and wrote a small program to do that.

My IT friends are usually night people. They usually work very night people. After the sunset, they are awake! I am a "abnormal" one. I need to go bed very early. I found working at morning , the efficiency is higher.

I have met a number of students in university who have the problems to find jobs. They have a good skills in IT. The major problems are in their CV and Job interview. I have read some their CV. Most allof them have not targeted to the key skills of jobs. For example, one of my friends was looking for a job in C# programming. I told him, his CV should have pointed out the key projects or subject in C#.

The other problems in their job interview. They won't know how to present themselve. I have told them, you should treat yourself as a product. During the interview, you are selling the product to the company. You are making the company to buy your product.

Lastly, they are not alone. There are a lot of resource to help them. During my uni time, Career Section in University organized some workship about CV writing and job interview skills. Even outside of university are also providing this kind of help too. I found ACS will have a workship about CV writing on July.

All the best, Job seekers!