Data is the new oil, and data is the new currency. Yes, data play a big role now. Inevitably, the data analyst role is in-demand in the IT market. As a data analyst, you should stay on top of data with skills to gather data, clean data, transform data and visualise data. Usually, the outcomes [...]
So many languages are out there and so difficult to choose. It is a common problem for people who are recently graduated from university or the ones who want to learn a new language. Just make the concept clearer, C# is a language, .NET is a platform to run the software written by C#. Employment [...]
What is blockchain or Decentralisation Blockchain (Decentralised solution) is the database storing transactions, it is not just hosted on one server, it is hosted in all the participants' computers and each is called a node. If one node is gone, no worries, there will be other nodes. Blockchain is the technology of implementing decentralisation model. [...]
What Blockchain is a set of distributed databases running on different computers a.k.a. Node. If something is stored on the blockchain (various computers), it is perpetual and not-destroy-able. Blockchain has very sophisticated algorithms to prove data/transactions to be stored on the chain, The goal is to ensure its validity and integrity. Why Blockchain mechanism (Decentralisation) [...]
A couple of days ago, I asked you what were your biggest pains, frustrations and challenges in finding a software development, testing or data analytics job right now. Thank you for your feedback. I received over 100 replies! During this week I have read all of the responses, many of which were very comprehensive and [...]
I was talking to a recent graduate yesterday and discussing her journey to finding the first job as a Software Developer. She was not just looking for 'any job', but rather a job that would start her career, at a company where she could build valuable skills over time. We got onto the topic of [...]
Why applying for jobs is not like buying Lottery Tickets! I meet a lot of people who have applied for over 50 jobs. Most of the people who come to us are in this situation. Last week I even met someone who had applied for over 150 jobs, without any success. It seems that applying [...]
Following my last article, where I talked about what to put on your CV, I got asked to describe more about my comment regarding having a 'confident, professional tone'. I want to dig into this a bit more as it is often misunderstood. It is quite difficult for people who are not experienced within the [...]
If you understand basic C# and want to understand how block chain works. Here is atoy version of blockchain written in C#. In here, a block stands for one transaction. You can see how a block is being constructed and how a block relates to its previous block. The most interesting part is you can [...]
After Jack got his first software developer job, Jack decided to do a video interview as an Industry Connect review. In the video, Jack told everything he learned at Industry Connect. In a nutshell, it is about the right technical skills, meet the people, learned what soft skill is, improved public speaking, learned software architecture, understand interview, [...]
