{"id":786,"date":"2012-05-31T08:59:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=786"},"modified":"2012-05-31T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:15:12","slug":"comp-sci-job-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/comp-sci-job-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Comp Sci Job Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like I run across an article like this at least once a week. \u00a0Most of the articles are strictly about the demand for Computer Science graduates, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/cybersecurity-experts-needed-to-meet-growing-demand\/2012\/05\/29\/gJQAtev1yU_story.html\">demand for Cybersecurity professionals<\/a> is just as high. \u00a0I spoke with a former student last week that has a Masters in a Cybersecurity related field and his career is going quite well.<\/p>\n<p>I also had the pleasure last week of having lunch with 3 of my former students all of which are now in the Turing Honors Computer Science program at the University of Texas at Austin. \u00a0These students are all freshmen and have all received numerous internship offers for the summer. \u00a0The internship offers were all from highly respected companies with nice compensation packages. \u00a0Almost all of their classmates had multiple summer interships offers as well and all of their friends that recently graduated had a large number of job offers from which to choose. \u00a0 It sounds like the UT Austin Computer Science program has it going on!<\/p>\n<p>A friend just sent this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/?\/video\/business\/2012\/01\/07\/harlow-computer-science-jobs.cnn#\/video\/business\/2012\/01\/07\/harlow-computer-science-jobs.cnn\">video link<\/a> which follows along the same lines as the rest of my post.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, if you are still searching for a Computer Science workshop for the summer, check of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/workshops.htm\">workshop list<\/a>. \u00a0 My workshops are a blast &#8211; we covers lots of material and have a ton of fun doing it. \u00a0Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like I run across an article like this at least once a week. \u00a0Most of the articles are strictly about the demand for Computer Science graduates, but the demand for Cybersecurity professionals is just as high. \u00a0I spoke with a former student last week that has a Masters in a Cybersecurity related field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}