Software career guide for your children

I have created a list job opportunities in software career and give the list of things to study.This will be very useful for your college studying children. Please share this among them. I will keep on updating this regularly.

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Web Design/Development
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1. Web Designer/Graphic Desginer/GUI Developer
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Software Tools to study:
HTML, CSS, PHOTOSHOP, FLASH, DREAMWEAVER, JAVASCRIPT

Job Opportunies:
Small, medium to big companies like Infosys, HCL, Wipro

2. Web Developer
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Software Tools to study:

HTML, CSS, PHOTOSHOP, JAVASCRIPT, JAVA/JSP/SERVLETS/MYSQL/ORACLE or PHP/MYSQL or PERL/MYSQL or PYTHON/MYSQL or RUBY ON RAILS/MYSQL or ASP.NET/SQLSERVER

Job Opportunies:

* PHP/MYSQL - Small to medium companies. HCL often recruits PHP guys
* JAVA/JSP/SERVLETS/MYSQL/ORACLE - medium to big companies like Infosys, HCL, Wipro, CTS
* PERL/MYSQL - Small to medium companies
* RUBY ON RAILS/MYSQL - medium companies. Very less programmers exists in this area
* PHP/PERL/PYTHON/CSS - This combo is often asked by YAHOO & GOOGLE. You should be expert level in this

4. Flash Developer
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Software Tools to study:
FLASH (expert level coding in action scripting), PHOTOSHOP, HTML, CSS, DREAMWEAVER, JAVASCRIPT

Job Opportunies:
There is a huge amount of requirement for flash developers mainly in US and UK, DUBAI.

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MAINFRAME Technolgies
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1. SYSTEM ANALYST/SYSTEM ENGINEER
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Software Tools to study:
COBOL, AS400, COBOL400, DB2(database)

Job Opportunies:
Near every big companies like INFOSYS, WIPRO, CTS, TCS are using mainframe technologies.
There is a huge amount of onsite opportunies in this field.