Assignment #1

Career Planning:

1- Visit any job website; jobs.com, monster.com, flipdog.com,….

2- Search for any keyword that you think is going to be your first job title, i.e. “Software Engineer, Network Administrator, Project Manager, DBA, Developer, …”

3- Read through at least 5 jobs descriptions that matches your search keywords

4- Copy the skill set that those jobs are looking for, put them in a text file as a list of skills

5- Mark each skill with a “Y” or “N”

1. “Y” à means “I have this now”
2. “N” à means “I need to work on this”

6- Send this file to my email address mostafa.mostafa@wku.edu

Due date: Wednesday, 30, January

Notes:

If you look at the following link which is the first I got from google.com

http://experts.about.com/q/Graphic-Design-3177/Career-Planning-Assignment.htm

• You can apply the same questions to any other CS career.
• Skills can be related to your study and others will not be related but you will find that some intersection is already existed.
• Some skills require professional certificates (Java, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Project management, Database Administration, Network Administration, Network Security, …)
• Find which of them you like to be in and plan to take one of those certificates BEFORE you graduate from the CS department so you will be well prepared for the market.
• Other career planning related to the graduate students and research.

Please if you have any question let me know if I can of any help.