Dated 3rd Mar 2004
What are the career prospects for CCNA?
ANIL KUMAR
Hyderabad
The expanding integration of Internet technologies by businesses, for example, has resulted in a rising demand for a variety of skilled professionals who can develop and support Internet, Intranet, and web applications. Explosive growth in these areas is also expected to fuel demand for specialists knowledgeable about network, data, and communications security.
They have various career openings available to them, as application programmers, system programmers, web-masters, or technical support specialists and so on.
Graduates will also be equipped with the necessary specialist skills for promotion to senior positions such as system analysts, web-development managers, application development managers or technical support managers, programmer analysts; tech support; analyst and management-software developers; technical maintenance of computers and their peripherals; database designers; and computer consultants.
How do you deal with questions relating to what your biggest accomplishments are?
MALLIKARJUN
Hyderabad
Answers to this should be job-related. Modesty should again be applied, hinting that your best work is yet to come. Don't be hesitant or vague when answering this question. Show that you have a clear idea of your achievements to date.
A big accomplishment doesn't need to be overly impressive, but should rather highlight your competency. Efficiently managing a small team of diverse people, or ably dealing with a shortage of resources is an accomplishment that can be meaningful, but claiming your bit part in a huge project sounds fanciful and isn't likely to leave a favourable impression.
Don't be hesitant or vague when answering this question. Show that you have a clear idea of your achievements to date.
If your previous company has fired you, is it essential that you mention the reason why you were fired when asked in an interview?
JATIN
Patiala
If it has been a case of being clearly fired and you cannot practically pass it off as a downsizing act, then it's advisable to be open and honest (honesty is a virtue that always scores points), minimising the reason for your dismissal.
Try to portray the incident as 'one of those unlucky things that happens to the best of us,' and modestly explain how you've learnt from the experience and the steps you've since taken.
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The objective is to put the interviewer at ease in the hope that they won't place too much importance on a reference check. It is however a good idea to reconcile with your former employers (who fired you) and request them to at least give you a fair reference should anyone enquire about the incident.
I'm a student doing my final B.Sc. and would like to pursue M.Sc. Anthropology. I would like to know more about anthropology, and its future prospects? Can you please tell me about this subject?
GANESH G
Via email
Anthropology is the study of human beings. Anthropology seeks to produce useful generalisations about people and their behaviour, and arrives at an unbiased understanding of human diversity.
Anthropology is a stimulating and wide-ranging discipline, offering unique insights into human social life.
This course emphasises the holistic and comparative nature of the subject, studying humans from a variety of social, cultural, genetic, ecological and evolutionary perspectives.
Graduates in Anthropology can work with schools, colleges, institutes and universities; social research with colleges, institutes and universities as well as business, governments and trade unions.
They are also employed in a professional capacity with organisations concerned with community and regional development; humanitarian and development aid; indigenous, multicultural, immigration and refugee organisations; as well as corporate, governmental, trade union and other organisations concerned with cross-cultural liaison.
Anthropology graduates also find work in administration, particularly social policy areas that have a cross-cultural focus.
What is the exact difference between a software engineer and a programmer, in terms of the level of knowledge and salary that people in these two categories get?
BALAKRISHNAN
Chennai
A Programmer is concerned with: The language and its libraries, making the language work in his or her environment, translating the solution of a given problem into a working program, coding, testing, tools: The language, compiler and development environment, operating system (at the level of understanding its limitations and conveniences) The software engineer is concerned with: Thinking about how to describe a solution to a given problem, the inadequacies and conveniences of the environment, and changing this as required for coding, testing, and tools.
A programmer is someone who programs, the same way that a writer is someone who writes. The existence of compiled, running code is all that is necessary from a programmer's perspective.
A software engineer is someone who solves an engineering problem. There is a very big difference; most software engineers are programmers, but not all programmers are software engineers
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