IT students struggle with career orientation

Learn about the future in the school chair, helping students to be proactive in the future and ready to work right after graduation. However, the information needed to them was too small.

With only a few months left, Nguyen Tien Cuong, a fourth-year student at the University of Technology - Hanoi National University, will graduate. This Lang boy wanted to be a programmer in Hanoi and equip himself with a relatively 'beautiful' transcript and experience working at FSoft. However, Cuong still wondered what his 'martial arts' would be when he was officially born.

' At school I learned a lot of things, with seven programming languages, several different platforms. But software companies are using which languages, platforms, and types of applications are popular with no official flow of information , 'Cuong said. ' It is difficult because students cannot become' experts 'in all fields or master everything. '

IT students are well versed in popular technology, making it easier to apply for jobs.Photo: HH .

Cuong's worries are similar to more than 800 students from various universities participating in the IT Industry and Employment Seminar organized by University of Technology - Hanoi National University and Training Center. Creating Aptech Hanoi held on May 15 evening. In fact, the term 'IT industry' contains a lot of jobs and expertise, ranging from network administration, programming, system design, security and network security . Information technology is also a sector. has a rapid growth rate. If you only absorb the knowledge in school, you cannot 'enter' immediately upon graduation.

Talking to students at the seminar, Mr. Truong Xuan Nam, director of Hanoi Training Center - Aptech, said that IT students really have to join a race right from the beginning to determine if a career can hold. catch new technology.

'In the immediate future, you can choose ASP.NET language, Java Script and knowledge of web-based application development, but in the future that choice will change ,' Mr. Nam commented. . Difficulties in accessing information about the hot work takes place with almost all other areas such as network administration, hardware, .

In addition to a lack of career-oriented information, the weakness of new graduates is mainly assessed by experts as a lack of work skills, particularly the ability to work in groups, to present ideas for protection. , communication . This can also be the cause of IT enterprises 'complaining' lack of manpower although the growth of this sector in Vietnam has reached 30% in recent years, according to statistics. by TMA Solutions.

' The shortage of IT personnel is the common situation of many countries, which opens up great opportunities for young people to study IT. However, this is also the industry with rapid changes. The quality of IT human resource development is to have 'bridge' for students to approach advanced technology, training programs built on practical and focused foundation ', Hanoi Director Aptech concluded.