Skills in Demand

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Introduction

• Elizabeth Shober
• General Employment Trends for 2001
• Employment Outlook for 2002

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Skills in Demand

• Web Technologies
• ERP Technologies
• Specific Tools
• Rational Rose, Mercury WinRunner, CBQ
• Transport Protocols
• TCP/IP, Frame Relay, ATM
• Business Tools
• Niku Workbench, Visio

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Salary Trends

• Standard packages for IT Base Salary, Bonus and
  Benefits
• Reduction of Sign-on bonuses and Stock options
• Overview chart US Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Position analysis Salary.com

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Salary Trends Software Engineer/Long Beach

• Designs, Develops,Modifies, Writes and Implements
  programming applications
• Supports or Installs applications
• Participates in testing process through test
  review and analysis, test witnessing and software
  certification
• Requires BS and 0-3 years experience

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Salary Trends GUI Programmer/Long Beach

• Designs and develops web applications using
  visual components such as Java AWT or Swing
• May participate in testing java GUI components
  and testing improvements to those components
• Requires BS and 0-3 years experience
• Requires knowledge of C,C, Xmotif programming
  interfaces and GUI API packages

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Salary Trends Software Quality Assurance/Long
Beach

• Develops, Publishes and Implements test plans
• Writes and Maintains test automation
• Develops quality assurance standards
• Defines and Tracks quality assurance metrics such
  as defect densities and open defect counts.
• BS degree. 2-4 years of coding in C,C, Java.
  Know NT/Unix environments.

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Salary Trends Database Analyst I/Long Beach

• Reviews, Evaluates, Designs, Implements and
  Maintains company databases
• Identifies data sources, constructs data
  decomposition diagrams, provides data flow
  diagrams and documents the process
• Writes codes for database access, modifications
  and constructions including stored procedures
• Requires BS and 0-3 years experience

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Salary Trends LAN Support I/Long Beach

• Supports, Monitors, Tests and Troubleshoots
  hardware and software problems pertaining to LAN
• Recommends and Schedules repairs
• Provides users support for all LAN based
  applications
• Installs and Configures work stations
• AA degree and 0-3 years experience

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Salary Trends Help Desk Support/Long Beach

• Provides support to end users on a variety of
  issues
• Identifies, Researches and resolves technical
  problems
• Responds to telephone calls, email and personnel
  requests for technical support
• Tracks and Monitors the problem to insure a
  timely resolution
• AA degree and 0-2years experience

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Types of Opportunities

• Full-Time
• Contract
• Contract to Hire

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How to Break In

• Three Stories
• E. Ta
• Y. Liu
• K. Moscrip

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Resources

• School Job Placement Office
• Internet Job Boards
• Monster, Dice, Headhunter, Computer Jobs, Hot
  Jobs
• Associations and User Groups
• Handout
• Publications

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Industry Trends Overview
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Industry Trends Case StudyExperian

• Formerly TRW Credit Reporting Company
• 5th largest database in the world
• Traditional delivery of a single product
• Needed to reinvent itself to produce revenue
• Creation of Credit Expert
• On-line subscription credit service
• Produced in partnership with another company
• Private labeling
• From nothing to a completed product
• Outsourced initial development to consulting
  company
• Integrated Full time employees
• Supplemented teams with contractors

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Industry Trends Case StudyToyota

• Toyota Motor Sales
• Largest Japanese Auto manufacturer
• Point of Sale Data Collection for Customer
  Relationship Management
• Needed to reengineer process
• Crane Project
• 3-5 year 500 million initiative
• Web based central system archiving all customer
  purchase and service data (ie all dealerships
  can access information)
• Development History
• 4 phases
• Staffing 40 FTE and 60 Consultants
• Full time employees as managers
• Contractors and project teams as rest

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Industry TrendsCase StudyEarthTech

• Earth Tech
• Division of Tyco
• Engineering, Construction, Water Treatment
• Internal Operating Problems
• Archaic Systems (ie servers)
• Underutilized business applications (Oracle)
• Perception problem Technology viewed as cost
  instead of value added
• Transformation
• Upgrade Staff
• Transition Plan
• Operating systems
• Hardware and storage
• Business Applications
• Windows 2000
• EDM/EIM

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Industry TrendsThe Next Generation

• 4 G Wireless
• Optical Routing Technology
• Streaming Infrastructure
• Biotech

• Bluetooth Technology
• SAN Technology
• Security
• MEMS

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Conclusion
Good Luck on your Job Search!