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SET Career Fair
Science, Engineering, and Technology Career Fair, Wednesday, February 2.
Summer Job Teaching Tech
Teach Technology this Summer!
If you want to spend your summer teaching kids, having fun, and improving your resume, look no further—iD Tech Camps and its Teen Academies are looking for people like you! Teach ages 7-18 Video Games, iPhone® and Facebook® Apps, Programming, Robotics, Web Design & Flash® Animation, Graphic Arts, Digital Video Editing, Digital Photography and 3D Character Modeling.
As an iD staff member, you’ll receive:
Higher pay than the camp industry standard.
Summer work that will build your professional resume.
Travel! Choose from 60 university locations from coast to coast.
Overnight Staff receive free Room & board valued at over $300/week.
School credit. Accepted as internship, co-op or directed study credits at many colleges!
High-tech tools and toys. From our Wiki-based curriculum delivery system to our nationwide Gaming Tournaments we implement the most cutting edge technology.
Online support forums for problem solving, idea sharing and teaching tips.
In person training on classroom management and team building.
24/7 support from your Regional Management team.
FUN! This is camp! Outdoor games, Guitar Hero® contests, LAN parties and more!
Learn more about us and apply online at: http://internaldrive.com/summer_employment.htm
Entry-Level Configuration Management in Cola
From CGI, a company that has been working with some of our CSCE490 students. They want to hire more of our students.
I just spoke to one of our project managers in the Columbia office and we just learned that we will need to hire 1 – 3 college hires this semester! I realize we’re a little behind the ball, but I was hoping that you might be able to help. Do you have any students that are graduating this December that do not yet have a job secured? If so, could you please encourage them to visit our website and apply to the position in SC, or send me their resume directly? Your help would be greatly appreciated! The link to the position is below: http://clients.njoyn.com/cgi/xweb/xweb.asp?clid=21001&page=jobdetails&jobid=J1010-0440 Whitney Ragan Campus Recruiting CGI, US Enterprise Markets
Computer Science Education Week: An Official Columbia Holiday
CSEDWeek is December 5 to 11 (yeah, finals week, I know!). It aims to:
- Eliminate misperceptions about computer science and computing careers
- Communicate the endless opportunities for which computer science education prepares students within K-12, and into their higher education and careers
- Provide information and activities for students, educators, parents, and IT professionals to advocate for computer science education at all levels.
And, as this document shows, it is officially recognized here in Columbia, SC.
On the Economic Effects of Outsourcing Computer Jobs
The snippet below is from this blog post which is an excerpt of economist Russ Roberts' book The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protection (3rd Edition)
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“That’s the part of the story that was missing when people complained about foreigners providing computer services at a lower cost than Americans. It did put some Americans in some industries out of work at first. But it let companies pay a lot less for computer services. Companies that couldn’t afford computers before were now able to. Companies that already were using computers expanded their use of technology. The worriers ignored all those benefits and all the new things that became possible because Americans didn’t have to spend as much as they did before to get computer technology. And as it turned out, only the lowest-paying computer jobs became less numerous. Those were the jobs that foreigners could do at a distance much more cheaply than Americans. Between 1999 and 2004, when the worries about outsourcing were at their peak, the number of computer programmers in America fell by 25 percent. But the number of software engineers rose by 50 percent, more than making up for the lost jobs in computer programming. Overall, the number of high-paying computer jobs rose by 17 percent, and the real wages of American workers in the computer industry increased as well. Outsourcing made most workers in the high-tech sector better off as demand for those skills increased.”
FYI, a computer programmer is someone who taught himself a little bit of programming in order to land the job, a software engineer is someone with a BS in CSE.
WSJ: Engineering, Computer-Science Pay More Than Liberal Arts
The Wall Street Journal reports that Engineering and Computer Science degrees pay more than liberal art. In case you didn't know (really?!).
The pay advantage of graduates with technical degrees often persists throughout their careers, said Fort Collins, Colo.-based career counselor Katy Piotrowski. Although liberal arts majors have a wide range of salaries, Ms. Piotrowski said that mid-career liberal arts majors she works with in northern Colorado make between $60,000 and $70,000. Those with technical degrees make at least $10,000 more. Technical majors even have an advantage in fields that are typically hotbeds for liberal arts majors, she said. "Technical degrees are valued in all fields. I've a seen a [company] communications department actually prefer that someone have an engineering degree rather than a communications degree," she said.
Of course, Engineers are still underpaid when compared to Harvard MBAs and lawyers, whose starting salary is more than twice of an engineer.
Starting salaries at the biggest firms—those with more than 500 lawyers—roughly doubled, to $160,000. But such plum jobs are hard to get, especially for graduates of the less prestigious public schools. At smaller firms starting pay has for years failed to keep up with soaring tuition fees, and of late has fallen (see chart).