Getting Skilled: what skills do you need - where do you get them
In my last blog post I rambled on about how a tech engineer must leave College or University with skills and not just knowledge. This of course begs the question - what skills should a young graduate engineer have as they step out into the world. Computer Science has many sub-disciplines and it is not feasible to point out the skills young graduates should have in each case. Instead I picked a few sub-disciplines and asked friends and colleagues with experience in them a simple question. ' If you were hiring a graduate engineer, what skills would you want them to poses "out of the box"? ' IT is a fast changing profession and having the skills relevant for todays technology needs may not be enough to stay competitive next year. So I further classified skills into two categories - Right Now skills, that the tech industry needs from you immediately and Around the Corner skills that the tech industry will likely need from you in a year or so. Without making t