My Career Preferences.
- Website Developer
- Unethical (Black-hat) Hacker
- Software Engineer
- Ethical (White-hat) Hacker
Because of the popularity and sophistication of drag and drop website builders have been increasing, the demand for web developers have been dropping. Not that there aren’t jobs for web developers but there are too many developers and too little jobs available.
The security market is booming on both sides, Unethical hacker are breaching security of businesses and government-related organizations and Ethical hackers helps these businesses/ organization to patch these security exploits. But I feel identifying yourself as a hackers has some consequences because when your hacker it seems many developers won’t trust you.
I think software engineer is probably the best career on my list to insure a job in current state of the economic market. Especially living in the by the University of Waterloo attracts a lot of jobs for software engineers. But the reason software engineering really standout for me is because can be split in to many specific and specialized sections of software engineering from programming for robotics too, server scripting and database sourcing.
- Software Engineer Job Market.
For a software engineer the job market is great. Using a job database provided by the Canadian Governments website there are over 1000 jobs in Canada for software engineering in their database. About 40% of those jobs are in Ontario and 75% of them are full-time. On top of that careercast.com rated software engineer the third best job in the 2013 looking at average salary and job growth.
So even though Canada is going through some tough economic issues there are still a lot of jobs in high tech industry and I because the computer we have now are very different from pre-descendant computers of the generations before removing some the strain caused by people working but their time.
What the Government is doing.
All the large government parties have plans to create jobs in one way or another. The current plan for creating jobs and growth is called the Economic Action Plan. Some of the Economic Action Plans main goals are to create government controlled contacts in a variety of industrials all over the county to stimulate growth. Which I think is a short term solution for a long term problem and may help but in the in the end it won’t fix all the problems.
- Possible Solutions for Job problems.
Because employers are looking for more and more experience for the employees, the universities should create more co-op and apprenticeship programs for the students. The students after they graduate would then have the required working experience to get a job and would be able to join the work force right away without addition training. Of course this is going to magically create jobs, the universities would also have to stop excepting some many student each year.
- Experience & Technological Skills.
I’m a big internet user and I am one of those people who feel if they can find it on the internet then they could do it. I have learned much about programming and developing over YouTube videos and online PDFs. I’ve created many software projects before and plan to continue building my technological skill set even more. I also plan to attend the University of Waterloo for software engineering which apparently has a great co-op part of the undergrad software engineering that gives you 2 years’ experience. So I think I’ve a good plan for developing my skills and getting experience in software developing.
