Career Guidance

To make it happen in your career, you need to plan your career.

Career planning is a process of understanding oneself, exploring career options, making wise decisions and moving forward. What complicates it is that people, careers and organizations are constantly changing.

Therefore, career planning is not something done one time early in your career. Rather, it’s an ongoing process throughout your life. It doesn’t matter what’s your profession, your industry or your place of employment. The reality is lives change, professions change, industries change, organizations change and so your career will change. You can bet on it!

Who Am I?

The foundation of career planning, today and for the future is based on a very clear understanding of who you are as an individual and as a professional person. As a career coach, I’ve found that the greater the congruency between who you are – your skills, values, interests and personality – and your career choices, the greater personal career satisfaction.

Since everyone has a unique mix of skills, strengths and limitations that change over time, the first step in career planning is to look at who you are and what your career is all about. Also, gaining clarity about yourself will help you make better decisions in the future when challenges and opportunities emerge.

Identity Questions

Here are some simple, but profound, questions to start you on this journey. You may want to choose someone, or several people, to help you reflect and provide additional feedback.

• What do I see as my personal strengths?
• What are some of my personal limitations?
• What are my core values – what’s important to me?
• What are my abilities – things I’m good at and enjoy doing?
• What have I done, or I am doing now, that makes me feel proud?
• What are the significant influences on my life that have affected my career?
• Do I have talents that I feel are underdeveloped – how can I start utilizing them?
• What are my current obligations or commitments? How might they affect my career?
• If I could turn the clock back, what career choices or decisions would I make differently?
• If I could turn the clock ahead, what are some things I would like to accomplish in my life?

What Do You Know?

What have you learned about yourself from this self assessment? Perhaps you would like to have deeper insights. There are career assessment tools that provide personalized information on skills, interests, personality and values or career anchors. Would you like to know more, then let’s start a dialogue.

What makes a great life and a great career?

• Life Comes at You Fast – Be Prepared, Plan and Anticipate
• The Power of Attitude – We Can Change our Lives with Optimism
• NETWORK – Increase your connections
• Feedback is a Gift – Information is Power
• Do a Great Job Every Day
• Remember, a Fulfilling Life Is a Journey Not Just a Destination.

Your career is your responsibility.

Yes, of course, you manager should have your best interests in mind, but your career development is not at the top of his her daily to-do list. It should be on the top of yours. So, to take charge of you career, set time aside to answer these questions:

• What can you do right now to enrich your future?
• What career options can you start exploring for challenge, variety, or greater personal satisfaction?
• What internal training courses or external seminars shall you participate in for professional development?

In srilanka  some educational sectors do career guidance program.There are some links:-

http://www.educationguidesrilanka.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=43

http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?nid=2011050055

Introduction Java

The Java programming language and environment is designed to solve a number of problems in modern programming practice. Java started as a part of a larger project to develop advanced software for consumer electronics. These devices are small, reliable, portable, distributed, real-time embedded systems. When we started the project we intended to use C++, but encountered a number of problems. Initially these were just compiler technology problems, but as time passed more problems emerged that were best solved by changing the language.

What Is Java?

Java is a computer programming language. It enables programmers to write computer instructions using English based commands, instead of having to write in numeric codes. It’s known as a “high-level” language because it can be read and written easily by humans. Like English, Java has a set of rules that determine how the instructions are written. These rules are known as its “syntax”. Once a program has been written, the high-level instructions are translated into numeric codes that computers can understand and execute.

Who Created Java?

In the early nineties, Java was created by a team led by James Gosling for Sun Microsystems. It was originally designed for use on digital mobile devices, such as cell phones. However, when Java 1.0 was released to the public in 1996, its main focus had shifted to use on the Internet. It provided more interactivity with users by giving developers a way to produce animated webpages . Over the years it has evolved as a successful language for use both on and off the Internet. A decade later, it’s still an extremely popular language with over 6.5million developers worldwide.

Why Choose Java?

Java was designed with a few key principles in mind:

• Easy to Use: The fundamentals of Java came from a programming language called c++. Although c++ is a powerful language, it was felt to be too complex in its syntax, and inadequate for all of Java’s requirements. Java built on, and improved the ideas of c++, to provide a programming language that was powerful and simple to use.
• Reliability: Java needed to reduce the likelihood of fatal errors from programmer mistakes. With this in mind, object-oriented programming was introduced. Once data and its manipulation were packaged together in one place, it increased Java’s robustness.
• Secure: As Java was originally targeting mobile devices that would be exchanging data over networks, it was built to include a high level of security. Java is probably the most secure programming language to date.
• Platform Independent: Programs needed to work regardless of the machine they were being executed on. Java was written to be a portable language that doesn’t care about the operating system or the hardware of the computer.
• Editor(IDE): Java has many editors.They will help us to handle java GUI  easily.Some the Java IDE examples

1. Eclipse: This is a very good and open source IDE. It is used a lot commercially and personally. It was made in Java so it’s cross-platform. It has a lot of support for additional plug-ins to extend your developing needs. What I love about Eclipse is that it compiles your code as you type. It highlights compiling errors and mistakes like how MS Word does for mis-spelled words.
2. Net beans: This is a very good IDE also. It has a built-in GUI Builder for those you like that R.A.D. . It is used a lot commercially too. It was made in Java so it’s cross-platform like Eclipse.
3. Blue J: This is an IDE developed towards first time Java developers. It teaches you a lot of programming concepts in Java and has a nice UML tool.
4. J Creator: This is my first Java IDE I used. It is very good and very easy to use. This IDE was made in C++ unlike the ones above, which were all made in Java. Only runs on Windows platform.
5. Intelligent Java IDEA: Intelligent IDEA is an intelligent Java IDE intensely focused on developer productivity that provides a robust combination of enhanced development tools.
6. Borland J Builder: This is a great commerial IDE for Java. It does have a price but some developers believe it’s worth it. It also has a built-in Java GUI Builder.
7. Dr. Java: Dr. Java is a lightweight development environment for writing Java programs. It is designed primarily for students, providing an intuitive interface and the ability to interactively evaluate Java code. It also includes powerful features for more advanced users.

The team at Sun Microsystems were successful in combining these key principles, and Java’s popularity can be traced to it being a robust, secure, easy to use, and portable language.

Where Do I Start?

To start programming in Java, all you need to do is download and install the Java development Kit.

After that do you want to know industry people thoughts about Java

you will go to this link: What Experts Say About The Java Language: Humorous Quotes

Yours

writerbaran

Thank you: Wikipedia