Top 5 telecoms skills in demand

*cough* <-. I sure as hell wish those same recruiters in the Western Cape would see a bored GSM (lol, W-CDMA plz) & Telecomms-focused electronic engineer posting on mybb while he is supposed to be doing academic research :p *hint hint*
 
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These articles and stats are nice, but getting a job as a very qualified professional in these top 5 categories is not as easy as you think. Even with my extensive list of certs and experience people still come with unreasonable packages or try to get you to do low level support... but now I'm just starting to wonder weather its just my recruitment representative not being very good :-)
 
Quite a number of networking guys and still a demand? Well let me ask, what type of skills (skill set or whatever) is required in that "Network Planning & Administration?&
 
Khanya said:
Quite a number of networking guys and still a demand? Well let me ask, what type of skills (skill set or whatever) is required in that "Network Planning & Administration?&
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A degree in electronic engineering.
 
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A degree in electronic engineering.
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That sounds a bit hectic for Networking.
Career Coursework
Focusing on applying concepts and skills to real-world situations, DeVry's Electronics Engineering Technology curriculum may include these career-enhancing courses:

Communications Systems – This course introduces analog and digital communications systems at the circuit and subsystem level. Topics include the relationship between time domain and frequency domains, bandwidth requirements of various modulation schemes and noise effects.

Mechatronics – Introducing electronic control of mechanical systems, this course covers sensors and transducers, signal conditioning, actuators, controllers, system models, system transfer functions, and dynamic system response.

Signal Processing – Students in this course explore analog signal processing (ASP) and digital signal processing (DSP), with emphasis on DSP, and program ASP and DSP chips for applications in communications, control systems, digital audio processing, and digital image processing.
Programming Environments and Java – This course introduces alternate programming environments such as command-line-oriented UNIX or Linux and Eclipse IDE. Topics include the Java programming language and advanced programming concepts such as exception handling and the event-driven model for graphical user interfaces.

Microprocessor Architecture – Exploring internal architecture of the microprocessor, students in this course use assembly language and/or high-level language to program the microprocessor and develop simple algorithms. Applications of the microprocessor as a computing element used with storage devices and embedded controllers are covered.
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http://www.devry.edu/degree-program.../electronics-engineering-technology-about.jsp

But, I guess, whatever will fill the vacancies...
 
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Khanya said:
Quite a number of networking guys and still a demand? Well let me ask, what type of skills (skill set or whatever) is required in that "Network Planning & Administration?&
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If you think you're going to get a job in a planning position at a GSM telecommunications company with a MCSE or A+ certificate, thin again. It's true that you can get ANY position at ANY company these days simply based on your skin color (or should I say, select color), but in the perfect World where actual intelligence counts you'd need some sort of degree like a BsC IT just to get you noticed - to get onto the shortlist you need EXPERIENCE with GSM technologies and networks. That, sadly, is something that no amount of pigment can give you - but that doesn't stop companies from hiring the wrong people though.

In the GSM World, having a degree or diploma is simply a formality. Experience is what counts here - but again, after the degree or diploma. Telecoms networks are not as simple as connecting your friends laptop to a router in your dormitory. It's a bit more involved than that.
 
Exactly :P Thats why i'm doing dev work in telecoms :P and soon financial too while doing a MSc.

btw Network Planning and Admin.. lol. I think you guys need to realise it depends on which network provider you work for ;) Jobs sometimes involves a LOT of admin, responsibility and oversight of vendors rather than actually getting in there and doing stuff. So e.g. if you like me and want to actually do stuff yourself, don't bother with telecom operator unless its for POC kind of work or non-specific vendor things because it often gets outsourced.

i.e. you end up handling customer complaints of coverage and fine tuning the coverage via investigation. then new sites are like checking where its going to be, finding a high site, checking freq allocations, codes, making sure hand overs works etc So a lot of project management too.. but again no real eng work :(

Vendors these days do most of the actual deployment of equipment to the site and configuring.. but again its more a connect and configure from what i understand. Sometimes the telecom operator doesn't have an established planning section for the tech deployed so then you will more input on design etc.. so yah.. not all its ramped up to be sadly. hehe.
 
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If you think you're going to get a job in a planning position at a GSM telecommunications company with a MCSE or A+ certificate, thin again. It's true that you can get ANY position at ANY company these days simply based on your skin color (or should I say, select color), but in the perfect World where actual intelligence counts you'd need some sort of degree like a BsC IT just to get you noticed - to get onto the shortlist you need EXPERIENCE with GSM technologies and networks. That, sadly, is something that no amount of pigment can give you - but that doesn't stop companies from hiring the wrong people though.

In the GSM World, having a degree or diploma is simply a formality. Experience is what counts here - but again, after the degree or diploma. Telecoms networks are not as simple as connecting your friends laptop to a router in your dormitory. It's a bit more involved than that.
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:confused: :confused:
 
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