Posted on: 06-05-11 13:04:58
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Originally posted by Maharana
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Originally posted by dan
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By the way, what is the rare skill you have in mind?
The poster is actually asking for suggestions on the 'rare' skills he could acquire.
SAP perhaps ?
How come SAP is a rare skill when hundreds of people do it and consulting firms and some private organisations are full of them?
Or Rare is an abbreviation in IT language???
Relatively rare compared to the number of Java or PhP developers. As long as the demand > supply. However, I am open to suggestions for rare IT skills?
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Originally posted by dimple2001
My company is looking for a very experienced Reliability Engineer. This is a demand skill, if not rare, due to the fact not many people have the experience. However, education alone will not get you this job.
Martin Gardener himself would be impressed by my puzzle solving ability - both probability and statistics. However, Dimple, mon ami, Reliability Engineering is not an IT skill. The time I take to solve all faces of the Rubik has increased to 5 minutes, with age. Re-engineering myself to be a reliability engineer would be more cumbersome than expanding my skills in the IT industry itself.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Perhaps I am looking for "demand IT skills" where the demand outstrips the supply. "R.a.r.e" would then be the wrong acronym.
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Originally posted by aarkay777
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Originally posted by dimple2001
My company is looking for a very experienced Reliability Engineer. This is a demand skill, if not rare, due to the fact not many people have the experience. However, education alone will not get you this job.
Martin Gardener himself would be impressed by my puzzle solving ability - both probability and statistics. However, Dimple, mon ami, Reliability Engineering is not an IT skill. The time I take to solve all faces of the Rubik has increased to 5 minutes, with age. Re-engineering myself to be a reliability engineer would be more cumbersome than expanding my skills in the IT industry itself.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Perhaps I am looking for "demand IT skills" where the demand outstrips the supply. "R.a.r.e" would then be the wrong acronym.
If probability/statisics is your area of interest then statistical/computational data mining would be a good fit. It is a relatively esoteric field and demand for job-seekers having this particular skill set is good.
Hi aarkay777,
To be honest, there's no 'Rare' IT skill these days. You get IT professionals in droves specialized in each and every field. As you really want to immigrate(due to the reasons best known to you only), here's my take. Please note that these days you do not need a 4 years' degree to work as a high paying IT professional anywhere in the world. Having said that, you still need to have at least a Bachelor's Degree, not necessarily to be an Engineering one. The question is, do you have one? Such as BA, BComm, BBA, B.Sc., etc. That's the first thing you require. Forget about MBA for a time being.
Secondly, as you mentioned you've been running your own IT business. So, let's assume you already have an IT experience in your kitty.
Now, as you said you want to have a Managerial job here in Canada right upon arrival. This is hard though not impossible, unless you have an exceptional skills, Canadian education, and loads of luck. All you will need to do is to start from scratch, may be at a Developer, Analyst, level, and move up from there (in Canada). Here's how. With the help of a good mix of professional certifications, such as PMP, BA and various other industry specific ones. Once, you have a good experience of about 4-5 years mixed with the exceptional communication, presentation, negotiation skills, and on top of that a Bachelor's degree with the above mentioned professional designations then only you can demand a management position. Not to disappoint you and quoting realistically, this is a 'dilli door hey' type of situation for you right now.
So, instead of spending time and money to do an MBA, I would recommend you go for the certification path. So, you see the immigration and work the way up is not eays in IT as well.
Also, the main consideration should be whether or not CIC(Citizenship and Immigration Canada) has any IT occupation listed in the eligibility list for you to immigrate. You can also try immigrating via. Enterpreneur visa. Not sure about the details.
Hope it helps. Good luck.
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Originally posted by elmer fudd
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Originally posted by aarkay777
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Originally posted by dimple2001
My company is looking for a very experienced Reliability Engineer. This is a demand skill, if not rare, due to the fact not many people have the experience. However, education alone will not get you this job.
Martin Gardener himself would be impressed by my puzzle solving ability - both probability and statistics. However, Dimple, mon ami, Reliability Engineering is not an IT skill. The time I take to solve all faces of the Rubik has increased to 5 minutes, with age. Re-engineering myself to be a reliability engineer would be more cumbersome than expanding my skills in the IT industry itself.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Perhaps I am looking for "demand IT skills" where the demand outstrips the supply. "R.a.r.e" would then be the wrong acronym.
If probability/statisics is your area of interest then statistical/computational data mining would be a good fit. It is a relatively esoteric field and demand for job-seekers having this particular skill set is good.
Correlation, regression, decision trees, applied multivariate analysis, applied stochastic analysis, time-series analysis, machine learning, text mining etc. are the relevent topics.
Relevant of-course. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Originally posted by febpreet
Hi aarkay777,
To be honest, there's no 'Rare' IT skill these days. You get IT professionals in droves specialized in each and every field. As you really want to immigrate(due to the reasons best known to you only), here's my take. Please note that these days you do not need a 4 years' degree to work as a high paying IT professional anywhere in the world. Having said that, you still need to have at least a Bachelor's Degree, not necessarily to be an Engineering one. The question is, do you have one? Such as BA, BComm, BBA, B.Sc., etc. That's the first thing you require. Forget about MBA for a time being.
Secondly, as you mentioned you've been running your own IT business. So, let's assume you already have an IT experience in your kitty.
Now, as you said you want to have a Managerial job here in Canada right upon arrival. This is hard though not impossible, unless you have an exceptional skills, Canadian education, and loads of luck. All you will need to do is to start from scratch, may be at a Developer, Analyst, level, and move up from there (in Canada). Here's how. With the help of a good mix of professional certifications, such as PMP, BA and various other industry specific ones. Once, you have a good experience of about 4-5 years mixed with the exceptional communication, presentation, negotiation skills, and on top of that a Bachelor's degree with the above mentioned professional designations then only you can demand a management position. Not to disappoint you and quoting realistically, this is a 'dilli door hey' type of situation for you right now.
So, instead of spending time and money to do an MBA, I would recommend you go for the certification path. So, you see the immigration and work the way up is not eays in IT as well.
Also, the main consideration should be whether or not CIC(Citizenship and Immigration Canada) has any IT occupation listed in the eligibility list for you to immigrate. You can also try immigrating via. Enterpreneur visa. Not sure about the details.
Hope it helps. Good luck.
1. You said: Please note that these days you do not need a 4 years' degree to work as a high paying IT professional anywhere in the world.
- Guys, is that true?
2. You said: Once, you have a good experience of about 4-5 years mixed with the exceptional communication, presentation, negotiation skills, and on top of that a Bachelor's degree with the above mentioned professional designations then only you can demand a management position. Not to disappoint you and quoting realistically, this is a 'dilli door hey' type of situation for you right now.
- Would a post-graduate degree like MBA from a UK university ranked in top 100 worldwide be more relevant than a Bachelor's from India?
P.S: Which of Huxley's works besides the "Brave New World" do you like? Perhaps we can exchange books if I manage to move to Canada. I have an excellent collection of good as well as rare books.
Au Revoir
