Cisco Network Associates

Since 2015, demand for AI roles such as machine learning engineers has risen by 344%, while demand for data scientists has jumped 78%. UI and UX designers fall under the category of AI careers, as do full-stack developers, software engineers , big data engineers, research scientists and more. More recently, roles including process automation specialist and data ethics officer have emerged and are growing in demand. As you’d expect, these roles require a set of hard skills in order to be able to handle and analyze data and program the software, yet the level of technical knowledge varies depending on the role. Plus, these roles are increasingly relying on a mix of other softer or more general skills that many people looking to get into a career in AI may not realize they already have. In the government report in May, employers were asked which were the most important skills that their companies needed to improve on. Their top 10 wish list was as follows: ·     ...

Technology companies are booming despite the pandemic, and technology professionals have never been in higher demand. So now’s the time for software engineers to update their résumés to take advantage of this extraordinary hiring environment. Here are a few quick tips for making a more effective résumé for the year 2021. Purpose: Remember that the purpose of your résumé is to generate interview requests. It’s not your bio, your academic CV, an exhaustive list of everything you’ve done, or even a good representation of the complete you. The purpose of a résumé is to get interviews, and everything that isn’t essential to that goal should be jettisoned. Scannable: Your résumé needs to be scannable. When it comes to your professional summary—the top? of the page of your résumé—it needs to be easy for the reader to digest in only a few seconds. As a first pass, they’re scanning it as quickly as possible to determine whether or not you belong in the “read more carefully” pile. That me...