This field is one of the fastest growing around the world. Employment can be gained in almost every environment, from schools to industry to government to hospitals. The optimal plan of action is to combine other specific fields of interest to make you more marketable in a particular field. For example, Computer Science grads with minors in finance are highly desirable candidates for jobs as systems analysts and system designers by financial institutions.
Critical Thinking: Reasoning, analyzing, ability to think conceptually, understanding components of complex problem research and development: research methods, research theory, statistics, evaluating evidence, examining electronic data sources, development systems for processing data.
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Software Engineer - researches, designs, develops computer software systems in conjunction with hardware product development, for medical, industrial, military, communications, aerospace and scientific applications.
Computer Programmer - converts data from project specifications and statements of problems and procedures to create or modify computer programs.
Program Analyst - plans, develops, tests and documents computer programs, applying knowledge of programming techniques and computer systems.
Quality Assurance Analyst - evaluates and tests new or modified software programs and software development procedures used to verify that programs function according to user requirements and conform to established guidelines.
Technical Training Instructor - develops and conducts programs to train employees or customers of industrial or commercial establishment in installation, programming, safety, maintenance, and repair of machinery and equipment.
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Salaries range greatly from one occupation, position, and work setting to another. According to the Summer 2008 NACE national salary survey for Bachelor's Degree Candidates in Computer Science, the average starting salary is currently $60,416.
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IEEE Computer Society - http://www.computer.org/pubs/computer/career/career.htm
Computing Research Association - http://cra.org/
IBM - http://www-1.ibm.com/employment/
Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) - http://www2.renewal-iis.com/
Lucent Technologies - http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/
Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/ms.htm
SAS - http://www.sas.com
American Mathematical Society - http://www.ams.org/
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - http://www.siam.org/