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1 posted on 01/05/2015 1:12:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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My niece is less than one year out from getting her degree in Theater Arts.

She works at a grocery store now.

I have been drilling into my two young kids the need to have a meaningful degree such as an engineering degree like I have. I'm not sure how it is now for new grads in Electrical Engineering, but when I was just a junior, we were already getting approached by recruiters.

2 posted on 01/05/2015 1:17:53 PM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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My big ones are speak understandable English and a history of not job hopping.

One of the current trends for a certain H1B visa holders (which I do not hire) is to work at a place for 18 months or so then move on to another area. Basically taking a tour of the country if you watch the trends of employment history.


3 posted on 01/05/2015 1:25:15 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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Don’t worry, President Obama has seen to it that illegals will fill those IT skills nicely. No more shortage! Yippee!


4 posted on 01/05/2015 1:30:18 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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Objective-C???

I’d hoped Swift superseded that. If .Net his hot then what are you programming it with? Does it program itself?

Doesn’t sound like the recruiters are too swift.


6 posted on 01/05/2015 1:35:36 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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About a year ago a nephew took my advice and started studying networking.

Oh well...at least it's still in the top ten.

8 posted on 01/05/2015 1:38:58 PM PST by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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Beware that a lot of IT firms will hire young twenty somethings on salary (no overtime), work them 60 hours/week, then dump them when they hit 30 and/or get a spouse and family, and then hire the next batch.


10 posted on 01/05/2015 1:42:44 PM PST by Gideon7
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No mention of ASP.NET?


17 posted on 01/05/2015 2:06:32 PM PST by Borges
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I can confirm this. I’m in chronic demand. I could quit today and be employed again within under a month most likely making more money if it took that long.


18 posted on 01/05/2015 2:19:40 PM PST by Maelstorm (Liberty is not something that is taken. It exists naturally in the absence of bureaucracy.)
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uhhh....those are pretty broad categories, and most likely would be the Top 10 ANY year.


20 posted on 01/05/2015 2:25:39 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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I don’t see how this is completely accurate. Our shortages are in networking (including security), visualization and storage design/management. I can hire project managers, web developers and database people all day long without issue and everyone I know has the same shortages. The problem is, they ask executives who generally know little about the tech they are delivering. They are professional managers. that’s also why more times than not, It staff levels are in disarray... not enough of what we need and too much bloat. You can hire software developers a dozen at a time and it will never be enough because they are in charge of building their own dependencies.


22 posted on 01/05/2015 2:36:35 PM PST by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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I would think IT Security would be in demand. Especially at Sony.


25 posted on 01/05/2015 3:01:35 PM PST by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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“Programming & Application Development”

(raises hand) Somebody pay me big money in Greensboro NC.


29 posted on 01/05/2015 3:36:46 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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bkmk


31 posted on 01/05/2015 4:39:11 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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