Forbes (5/16, Goudreau) reports, “Analysts at PayScale compared its massive compensation database with 120 college majors and job growth projections through 2020 from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to determine the 15 most valuable majors in the current marketplace.” Forbes reports, “Ranked by median starting pay, median mid-career pay (at least 10 years in), growth in salary and wealth of job opportunities, engineering and math reigned supreme. At No. 1, biomedical engineering is the major that is most worth your tuition, time and effort.” Engineering majors “comprise one third of the most valuable majors. Software engineering majors (No. 4) earn a median of $87,800 after 10 years on the job; environmental engineering majors (No. 5) earn a median of $88,600; civil engineering majors (No. 6) earn a median of $90,200; and petroleum engineering majors (No. 9) earn a median of $155,000-the highest paycheck on the list.”
Altair Engineering, Inc. empowers client innovation and decision-making through technology that optimizes the analysis, management and visualization of business and engineering information. Privately held, with more than 1,500 employees, Altair has offices throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. With a 26-year track record for high-end software and consulting services for engineering, high-performance computing and enterprise analytics, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of industries. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com and www.simulatetoinnovate.com.
Self-motivated Software Engineers will be excited about this opportunity. You will need some exposure to software application development, graphical user interface development, and object-orientated design and analysis for the HyperMath team to be considered. As a team member you will be responsible for both developing new features and sustaining existing features in all related products.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Ability to contribute in all phases of product cycle from requirement analysis, high and low level design and implementation, testing, bug fixing, and documentation using primarily C/C++ language.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team on assigned tasks.
- Ability to work on various platforms and with various developer tools as supported by the product.
- Work within team structure to complete implementation of assigned features and bug fixes in required timeline.
- Provide feature unit tests and participate in group code review process as necessary.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT/Comp Science or related field
- 0-5 years of commercial software product development experience using C/C++
- 1-2 years of graphical user interface experience
- Strong analytical and debugging skills
- Strong object oriented design and programming skills.
- Scripting (Tcl/Tk, Python or Lua or other similar script language exposure is a plus
If interested, send resume to: lpalo@altair.com
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Wayne State University’s Career Services has established partnerships with hundreds of organizations throughout the midtown community with regard to temporary, part-time, and full-time employment opportunities for WSU students. Take a look at a list of these organizations here.
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One of the best resources for job-seeking engineers could be as close and easily accessible as your smartphone! Many recruiters are now using Twitter to post career and internship opportunities and there are numerous accounts dedicated to engineering jobs.
The College of Engineering (@WayneStateEng) will be frequently re-tweeting many of these resources, but to make sure you don’t miss a single great career opportunity, check out these accounts:
Aegis Worldwide, LLC @AegisWorldwide
A recruitment firm that specializes in engineering
Engineering Jobs @AllEngineerJobs
An account that posts career opportunities in the United Kingdom and Europe
GE Connections @GEConnections
A resource for General Electric career opportunities and news
IEEE Spectrum @IEEESpectrum
A leading engineering magazine that posts career opportunities and tech news
Jobs 4 Twits @j4tEngineering
An account that posts engineering opportunities from various boards and company sites
Omni Engineer @OmniEngineer
An account for OmniOne, the nationwide staffing and recruiting firm for engineers
Also, don’t forget to follow WSU Career Services (@wsucareersvcs) and to visit our Career Services page for additional opportunities and tools to help with your job search.
Interviews can seem scary. Walking into an unfamiliar office to persuade a stranger to give you a job is no easy feat.
But, even if public speaking gives you nightmares, here are a few tips to help you stride confidently into any interview, equipped to demonstrate what an asset you would be to the organization.
Visit USA Today for seven steps to ace your job interview article.
Company Overview:
HTC Global Services Inc is a global provider of IT Solutions and Business Process Outsourcing services. We focus exclusively on maximizing client returns from outsourcing and off-shoring and have experience in managing large IT applications in real time. Our experience in the business process outsourcing arena fully complements and strengthens the broad range of our service offerings and allows us to operate as an enterprise-class solution delivery company. Our solutions aim to provide high value by optimizing the cost of ownership for our customers.
HTC Global Services has a client base consisting of several Global 2000 organizations. Our commitment is to provide solutions that translate into tangible business outcomes for our customers. Our Business Partner approach generates high business value for customers and rich dividends to HTC Global services in the form of a continual stream of repeat business. Our customer-centric approach is further strengthened by our client relationship and account management process to find more ways to delight our key customers and grow market share.
Our onsite-offshore delivery model provides significant cost savings. HTC’s development centers are assessed at SEI CMM-Level 5, and are also ISO 9001 certified, helping us to continually provide high value, high quality deliverables to our clients, consistently deliver to client expectations, and establish long lasting client relationships. These development centers follow strict security guidelines and are certified under ISO 27001 standards.
Job Description:
HTC Global Services Inc is seeking to hire recently graduated or scheduled to graduate not later than May of 2012 in the field of Computer Science or Electronics & Communication and Information Technology.
- Program offers scope to be trained internally and be deployed at various client locations / or in internal product development groups.
- Training will include class room sessions in cutting edge technologies combined with live / simulated project environment.
- Deployment in projects will be for long term, will offer scope to learn and grow with the organization.
- Prior work experience or having undertaken project work in web / mobile based applications / products will be advantageous
- HTC offers a growth oriented compensation and benefits, in addition to opportunity to enhance one’s technical / leadership abilities over the years.
- Opportunity carries compensation in the range of $45,000 to $55,000k with full benefits
- Positions are available across the US, hence should be willing to relocate, post training, to the location of opportunity.
Positions are to be filled immediately so apply soon. Cover letter and resume can be sent to Valloornatt@htcinc.com .
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Engineering majors continue to boast fatter salary offers than their peers, according to the most recent survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
Majors in the engineering field dominated the association’s list of top-paying degrees for the class of 2011, with four of the top five spots going to engineering majors. Each of these majors receive average starting salary offers of more than $60,000.
The only non-engineering major among the top five was computer science, which earned graduating students average starting salary offers of $63,017.
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Company Overview
Founded in 1996, Media Genesis (www.mediaG.com) provides website and Internet application development, interactive training support, multimedia design, and marketing communication services for over 300 companies and non-profit organizations, including GM, Chrysler, Scion, Kia, Darakjian Jewelers, The Greening of Detroit, and Our Special Kids.
At Media Genesis, we know that work can be a major part of someone’s life. So it’s important to us that our work environment is more than just a job, it’s a place to experience personal and professional fulfillment. We maintain our culture by doing fun things – movie nights, Friday bowling, parties, etc. – to balance out the intensity of working in small teams on high profile projects. As a result, we are comfortable with our team members and can rely on each other to create an incredible finished product.
Web Programmer Position
Location: Troy, Michigan
Compensation: Based on skills and experience.
Benefits: Health, Life, Dental, and Vision insurance; paid vacations and discretionary time; and employer-matched IRA contributions.
Dynamic, expanding web services company seeks individuals with excellent analytical skills to join our web programming team to support the development of web applications for high profile clients, including Detroit automakers.
Responsibilities
• Participate in developing and maintaining external and internal applications for websites, e-learning courses, content management systems, and other web-based systems.
• Advise project team in application tools and platform direction.
• Create application frameworks, design architecture, and write code.
• Develop, test and implement applications and web-based systems.
Qualifications
• Understanding of on-demand applications and surrounding issues.
• Experience working in a structured programming environment.
• Experience producing high quality software using industry methodologies.
Technical Skills
(All are not required)
-Drupal
-.NET
-Cold Fusion
-PHP
+++Additional skills/programming languages a plus+++
Please email your resume to Melis Mandal at melis@mediaG.com along with your salary expectations (please include an actual salary amount, not the word “negotiable”) in the body of your email.
Career Services’ 2012 Employment Expo
Date: Friday, April 20, 2012
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Location: WSU McGregor Memorial Conference Center
Professional job fair for employers and WSU students/alumni to
connect and network. Dress professionally and bring your resume!
Data Consulting Group, Inc. will be attending the Career Services’ 2012 Employment Expo on Friday, April 20 and is seeking a dynamic Web Developer to provide a supportive role related to medium and long-term business needs, technology solutions with ongoing process improvement initiatives. Position is located in Detroit Metro Area.
Responsibilities:
- Design, Maintain and modify existing application code, including document and author new application components and utilities of moderate to complex scope
- Triage and correct problems with development, test and production systems
- Perform full cycle support from business requirements to the final application components
- Mentor and lead junior developers in their technical growth
- Maintain safety, security, and privacy standards throughout all areas of responsibility.
Technical Skills Required:
- Minimum of 2 to 4 years experience as a software developer or architect
- Proficiency in either of the following J2EE 1.3.x/1.4.x/1.5.x, JSP, EJB, Struts, XML development and in HTML, JavaScript, DHTML and XHTML required.
- Knowledge of SQL and O-R mapping tools (Hibernate) required, PL/SQL knowledge preferred.
- Experience with J2EE patterns, development best practices, and iterative methodologies (RUP, XP, FDD) preferred.
- WebSphere 5.x or 6.x or 7.x Application Server Experience.
- Proficient in using UML standard design artifacts for class models and sequence diagrams.
- Experience with WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD), Eclipse and/or other Java and web development tools including CVS, Jprobe, TOAD, DBVisuzalizer, MagicDraw, Fiddler, etc.
- Experience with AJAX, JSTL and/or Display Tag.
- Exposure to MQSeries and/or MDB messaging preferred.
- Java or Web component developer certification useful.
Qualifications
- B.S. in Computer Sciences or related field.
- Minimum of 2 – 5 years web development experience in the SDLC process.
- Experience in performance tuning J2EE applications a plus.
- Experience with XSL/T, jQuery libraries and of Unix shell scripting is a plus.
- Possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Possess excellent problem solving skills.
- Be a self starter and take initiative work with minimal supervision.
Must be a US Citizen
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