Presentation prepared for a seminar titled 'IT job market Scenario: trends and prospects' at UIU on April 26, 2015 jointly arranged by BASIS Student's Forum

1. M Rashidul Hasan, CEO, Systech Digital LimitedM Rashidul Hasan, CEO, Systech Digital Limited
Vice President, BASISVice President, BASIS

2. AT Kearney
GSIL– 26th
rank among
Top 50 (Ranked
first in financial
category)
Gartner –
Bangladesh
among top 30
Outsourcing
destinations
Elance–Odesk
(October 2013) –
3rd most
popular
outsourcing
countries
Coface –
Bangladesh
enlisted among
the next 10
emerging
countries
Goldman
Sachs – Next 11
after BRIC
JP Morgan –
Frontier 5
Global Recognitions

3. Job Posting in bdjobs.com
Position: PHP Programmer
Criteria: CodeIgniter Expert & Graduate
Number of Vacancy: 2
Application Found: 789
Short Listed: 4
Interview Passed: 0
Recruited: 0

4. Hasin
Founder,
Leevio
Emran
Co-Founder,
Right Brain
Solution
Tanveer
Founder, ITIW
Omi
Ex-Developer
Evangelist,
Microsoft
Jahid
Founder,
Dwetech
Civil Engineer,
RUET
BBA, BRAC
University
BBA, IBA Social Science,
NUB
HSC, FISC

5. Technical
Entry Level
Mid Level
Management, Marketing & Support
Entry Level
Mid Level

6. Game Developers
J2ME, C/C++, Brew, Flash Actionscript, Lingo
Good knowledge in modeling, animating and Programming
Web app developers
PHP, Java, Dot Net, Python and Ruby
Mobile application Developers
Swift, xCode, Java, HTML5, Javascript, PhoneGap, Titanium,
Android Studio, Visual Studio Express
DBAs
 Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreeSQL
Graphics Design & Animation
 Adobe tools, Maya, 3D Studio Max

7. Its Global!
People from USA/UK/Europe are looking
for good developers at feasible rate
Skilled Freelancers sometime earns handsome amount
working from home.
guru.com, rentacoder.com, elence-odex.com
Google is a great source for developers

8. Read the Advertisement Carefully
Decide if you know the exact Technology
Prepare a customized Resume
Keep it one or two pages
A very good career objective
Latest academic certification
Only highlight your major skills
Make it structured
Submit as PDF
Apply with a nice forwarding

9. Fluency in English and that's a must
Smartness
Basics of your development platform
Your upgrade policy
Your knowledge on related technologies
Capability of your team work

10. Learn the basics and algorithm very well
Don't remember all the methods and objects
Be fluent in OOP and Design Patterns
Unit Testing
XML Processing
Version Controlling
Debugging
Coding Convention
Project Management & Software Engineering

12. Open source Programs (FOSS)
Open Source Codes – coders.com, planet-source-
codes.com, code.google.com, sourceforge.net
Google
Blogs – hasin.wordpress.com
Senior Brothers
Teachers
Surfing internet
Forums – dot net community, phpexperts, pmpbd,
javaexperts
Books & E-books

13. Always think industry oriented
Think new Technology (i.e. HTML5)
Always think of MVC
Do something new

14. Java – Struts, Spring, Hibernet, JSF, EJB and Ant
PHP – CakePHP, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Phing and
Laravel
Ruby – Rails And Capistrano
Dot net – ASP.net, MSAJAX Lib, WF
Python – Django, Plone
Perl ­ catalyst