The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, five years after the dot-com bubble burst, high skill job market is increasing in Silicon Valley. I won't go into details, but here is an interesting paragraph from the article. Look where I bolded the numbers!!
"A study last month by Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a nonprofit group representing businesses and government agencies in the area, found the nation's tech capital had a net increase in jobs in 2005 for the first time in four years. Most of the growth came in the category of creative and innovation services, including firms in research and development, scientific and technical consulting and industrial design. In total, the number of Silicon Valley jobs in these areas grew 4% from 2002 to 2005, reaching 72,734. At the same time, the number of jobs in electronic-component manufacturing -- which tend to involve assembly and other repetitive tasks -- dropped 28% to 23,772, while jobs in semiconductor-equipment manufacturing fell 23% to 58,133."
Intersting indeed. So much for the "EEE is the best" myth perpetuating in Bangladesh. I told some of my colleagues and classmates here about that, and we had a hearty laugh. My office mate from India told me that in India, CS is the most coveted subject in the IITs.
Anyway, this should be a bright light of hope shining in the horizon for the current students.
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Ola' I can see a static tension growing between the mother and the daugher over here ;) (guess which BUET depts I'm talking about?)
But, what do you know...a THIRD major(minor for the time being) dept might just use this advantage.
But, rana bhai..I saw a post in CNET about the jobs in foreign countries and it said that the most highly paid are Chem Engineers and Computer Engineering grads (closely followed by Aerospace Engineers in the 2nd position). So, does buet really live upto the expectation when it comes to actual hardware dealings (not the SCIENCE of computers as preached my many pvt univ of bd)? You were the one of the top-notches there...so, whats your say?
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