Help - Good Set of Skills to have Competetive Advantage?

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michaeru
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Help - Good Set of Skills to have Competetive Advantage?

Post by michaeru »

Good day,

I am currently a Junior Student taking up BS in Information Technology. I would like to know which set of skills, programming language, scripting language and database technology should I start mastering for me to gain advantage in getting a job.

Currently, I know the following (List from highest to lowest):
-Interface Design for Web and Desktop Apps (Static and Flash-based)
-MySQL Techonology
-PHP
-Flash Advertising
-HTML
-CSS

I can learn fast, took me 2 weeks to learn PHP and MySQL. I am currently making an Automated Election System.

BTW, I can't afford high cost commercial software like Oracle. I would like to stick to FOSS, as much as possible.

I hope to get a reply soon. Thank you.

-Michaeru
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Eran
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Re: Help - Good Set of Skills to have Competetive Advantage?

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Your best bet is to start getting actual projects under your belt. It will both boost your resume and your experience. Move on to increasingly more complex systems and try to always learn from your past problems. I'm sure you'll be back to this forum soon enough with more concrete questions - at that point people could recommend you specific techniques / skills to learn
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Re: Help - Good Set of Skills to have Competetive Advantage?

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Best skill - self motivation
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Re: Help - Good Set of Skills to have Competetive Advantage?

Post by alex.barylski »

If I told you how to gain a competitive advantage, that might mean my own unemployment. :P

Experience is huge...
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Easiest way to fins out is to look at job advertisements. Look for what everyone is asking for and then go do it.
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Post by aravona »

What I got told when rejected several times for several jobs was 'Have a website showing your skills' Which I'm working on atm, though not so readily as I'm comfortably working. Promote yourself on your own site, it can't hurt to be able to show people what you can do. Some students actually have to do this for assignments anyways. Theres some stupidly cheap deals for webspace out there. And I find its helped to focus some goals I've had with web development :)
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