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CAREER CORNER EXPAND YOUR NETWORK. STAY CONNECTED. This past May,
SetFocus celebrated its 8th year of business. From our first class in
October 1997 to today, we have trained over 630 software developers
through The Master’s Program. SetFocus plans to formalize Alumni Networking for your benefit. Here are just a few of the goals we will be working towards over the next 12 months:
These are just 2 ideas that we feel will increase the ability to network with fellow alumnus. If you have ideas that you feel could further facilitate formalized alumni networking please contact Theresa Billy, Career Development Specialist, today.
TECH CORNER
PROGRAMMER OR DEVELOPER?
DEVELOPERS: People who will contribute in multiple ways to make the product successful. The bulk of their time should be spent writing code and fixing bugs. But every developer also needs to be involved in other areas such as the following:
For more on this topic, check out the following blogs… SF News SetFocus launches a revolutionary on-line training experience for .NET Developers
The GRID is a Global Remote Instructional Delivery experience, which sets a new standard for on-line learning. “We set as a standard that anything we do in the area of distance learning had to be equal to or greater than the experience of being in one of our classrooms”, stated Mike Landau, President and CEO of SetFocus. To accomplish this goal SetFocus partnered with Polycom, the industry’s leader in video conferencing, to deliver its instructor-led, face to face instruction to software developers across the country, live. What makes The GRID unique and far superior to traditional synchronous on-line learning environments is its combination of seamless audio / video conferencing combined with real-time access to fully loaded .NET developer environments via Windows Virtual Machines. Through The GRID, instructors and in-class students, interact, communicate, and collaborate with remote students through audio quality 400% greater than telephone and video quality that of television. In addition, remote students have full access to Microsoft Visual Studio.NET environments including but not limited to MSDN and SQL Server, through Windows Virtual Machines. Though geographically separated, The GRID offers a solution that allows the instructor, in class peers, and students in their homes to collaborate as if they were sitting side by side in the classroom. For more information on The GRID visit SetFocus’ website. ALUMNI SPEAK!
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To unsubscribe to this newsletter click here. Why Network? (excerpt from Monster.com)In the world of work, networking is, indeed, a very big deal -- even the Wall Street Journal reported two years ago that 94% of successful job seekers claimed that networking had made all the difference for them. Networking comes in many forms -- everything from meeting an old friend
for a cup of coffee to having your best friend's father put in a good
word for you at his company, to meeting with an older alum from your
school to learn more about a career opportunity. Announcements! Births: 1/18/2006: Siddharth Satheesh Ananthalakshmi to Priya (SF Instructor) and her husband Satheesh.
12/8/2005:
Adoption: 5/26/2005 :Benjamin Park Uhrig (born 11/12/2004) to Stacey Uhrig (SF Staff) and her husband Matt (SF Staff).
If you have a special
milestone that you wish to share with your peers such as a birth,
marriage, new job, etc. contact
Stacey Uhrig. SetFocus
Staff Theresa Billy Nancy Bukovina James Kelley Gene Kowalski Bethany Maddis Rouky Martin Nancy Scanlon Matt Uhrig Dictionary: Blog The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger in December 1997. The shorter version, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who, in April or May of 1999, broke the word weblog into the phrase "we blog" in the sidebar of his weblog. This was interpreted as a short form of the noun and also as a verb, to blog, meaning "to edit one's weblog or a post to one's weblog." Usage spread during 1999, with the word being further popularized by the near-simultaneous arrival of the first hosted weblog tools: Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan's company Pyra Labs launched Blogger (which was purchased by Google in 2004) and Paul Kedrosky's GrokSoup. As of March 2003, the Oxford English Dictionary included the terms weblog, weblogging and weblogger in their dictionary. If you are a Blogger we would love to post your link in our next newsletter in a new section called: SetFocus Bloggers. To have your Blog posted contact Stacey Uhrig. Who Is: Theresa Billy Theresa Billy is SetFocus' newest Career Development Specialist. Theresa strives to work with our students and alumni to
develop the most comprehensive and individually specific employment
tools and strategies necessary to enable them to pursue and secure their
desired career opportunities. R U LinkedIn? When you join, you create a profile. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you. Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals. An example: Stacey Uhrig has 24 direct links to colleagues. Through secondary and treciary connections, her network has grown to over 216,200+! Through your network you can
LinkedIn is free to join. SetFocus strongly recommends that you join LinkedIn. The more alumni that join, the larger YOUR personal network will be. What do you have to lose? Join Now! |
