About AITP
AITP is a professional association comprised of career minded individuals who seek to expand their potential -- employers, employees, managers, programmers, and many others. The organization seeks to provide avenues for all their members to be teachers as well as students and to make contacts with other members in the IT field, all in an effort to become more marketable in rapidly changing, technological careers.
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AITP Chapter 3022
Date: 04/16/2011
Topic: Are You Job Ready?
Guest Speaker: Caron Newman
Start Time: 12:00
End Time: 1:00
Attendance Number: 15+
Materials: Oracle, Are You Job Ready
Guest Speaker: Caron Newman
Position: Senior Curriculum Manager
Brief History: Originally worked for Oracle, then went to work for
Micro-Sun systems, and returned to Oracle. Oracle eventually bought out
Micro-Sun systems
Representing: Oracle
Topic: “Are you Job Ready”
Note: Oracle is reaching out to University’s to mentor students in being ready for the competitive job market.
Intro to Oracle:
Co-founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison
Leader in Enterprise software & hardware products
#1 Provider of database software (43% of the market share)
(Translation-43 out of 100 companies use some form of
Oracle database software, so demand for IT students fluent in Oracle
is high)
370,000 Customers in 145 countries
106,000 Employees, including 29,000 Developers & Engineers
10 Million Developers in Oracle available in online communities
(Translation- professional advice and expertise is
available at all times online-Caron Newman-“you never know who you
could be talking to” Ms. Newman stressed the importance of blogging to
make contacts in the developer world!)
Over 1 million students supported each year
Overview:
Industry # of Companies
Aero & Defense 11 of top 11
Education & Research 9 of top 10 Universities
Communications 20 of top 20 service provider’s
Life Sciences 20 of top 20 pharmaceutical’s
Travel 3 of top 5 Airlines
Financial Services 10 of top 10 global Banks
Media/Entertainment All of the Fortune 500 global companies
Note: #1 in 50 product or Industry categories
How to Compete:
-Speaking Multiple Languages in a growing global Market
(Note: Other countries are way ahead of U.S. in bi-lingual students)
-Obtain a degree in Growing Field (HINT: Information Technology)
-Understand the skills employees want
-Don’t be passive, actively develop your skills
Important Skill Sets
Technology Skills
Critical Thinking Skills
Communication Skills (Teams)
Other Notables Ms. Newman mentioned:
-The importance of posting your resume online
-Companies Scan for Resumes
-Mapping skills to Career
Top Acronyms looked for in Resume
SQL
UNIX
C, GCC, C++
Java, JavaScript
Exchange
MS WinNT 2k/XP
XML
Competition’s to look for:
Think Quest International Competition 2011
-Select Real World Problem
-Produce Application or game that solves problem
-Receive face to face mentoring from top developers
What is the point of all this:
Ms. Newman just wanted to brag about Oracle-NO, Oracle is everywhere and growing in popularity and implementation, so the importance of having Oracle development knowledge and skills is also growing. Obtaining these skills is not the only way to a successful career in IT, but this one skill set will attract 43 out 100 companies.
