Introduction
What’s a dream job all about? It would be a job that when you get up in the morning you enjoy the work, get along with the people, contribute to the success of the company, and doesn’t place a limit to your professional growth. Also you feel happy to get out the door and go to where you can accomplish something that’s fulfilling and doing a job that gives back and help the people who work with you.
We sought to find several jobs in different companies in all over the world to get employed at one of most big and important companies that require strong skills and be IT professional. Our dream as computer science and engineer students is to be a member of one of the best companies in the world, and to proof our abilities of being computer scientist and engineers to help in improving the technology of the world. Nowadays, technology is moving really fast as we all know, and what lies behind it is the most important part of it which is good IT professionals. That’s why we have searched to find IT jobs in the most important companies in all over the world.
Individual statements
- Fatima wants to work in an IT company that offer jobs for beginner programmer and help them to develop themselves and their skills on programming. She chooses to work on programmer position because its related to her major and she find herself on being a computer science student and worker. On our webquest Fatima found that working on computer science spans the range from theory through programming to cutting-edge development of computing solutions. The work of computer scientists falls into three categories: a) designing and building software; b) developing effective ways to solve computing problems, such as storing information in databases, sending data over networks or providing new approaches to security problems; and c) devising new and better ways of using computers and addressing particular challenges in areas such as robotics, computer vision, or digital forensics (although these specializations are not available in all computer science programs). Most computer science programs require some mathematical background. And she is interesting on all these categories.
- Noor sought a programmer position in IT company. She wanted to work with expert programmer to help her become an expert in programming too. She thought the programming will help her to create new technology and solve problems in existing ones. On our webquest Noor discovered that programming would let her create a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something and writing codes in a software program and install it into some other machine. That’s why she looked forward to this kind of job. Not just for that reason, but she thought that programming makes her feel that she is an intelligent person once she solve the given problem and achieve what she wants.
- Hana is looking to join a big worldwide organization which includes all categories of work in Information Technology. She is seeking to work as a software engineer in a big company that needs to have a qualified engineer and programmer at the same time.which means that she can work with a group of computer engineer and computer programmer because she wanted to be helped to know and learn both skills of engineering and programming. She thought that software engineering is a broad field that will help her encompassing all aspects of software development from design to software maintenance. On our webQuest Hana found that software engineer is a systematic and disciplined approach to developing software. It applies both computer science and engineering principles and practices to the creation, operation, and maintenance of software systems. That’s why she has a strong faith that is the perfect job for her which makes a combination of what she learned in the school and what she want to learn more in the future.
- Zainab is looking to join a progressive organization that has need for IT employee and offer opportunities for advancement. She is looking to work in big company as a programming. She wants to be an excellent person who can solve any problem in computer and write any programs she faced. She chose a computer science as her major because she was thought that help her to developed her skill in programming and learn more about it. On our webquest Zainab found the working as a programming is the perfect job for her, so she can write any kinds of programs for company. Programming makes Zainab work hard to think and solve to get the perfect program.
Group Findings
We used google.com with the key words, jobs in IT companies and received 399,000,000 responses. This result is more general than what we really need; it has different companies in all over the world.
Because of that it is hard to search in such a result, so we decided to create a rubric as follows:
When we followed the rubric we end up with six websites as we want, 3 inside Saudi Arabia, and the other 3 from different countries outside Saudi Arabia. We have select Aramco Company, Saudi Oger Company, Saudi Telecom Company (STC), Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
Out of these six companies we have chosen three companies: Aramco Company, Google, and Microsoft.
We have chosen these three companies because they are very important companies. We have chosen Aramco because it is company number one in Saudi Arabia and worldwide in terms of petroleum production and exports, and a long history of successful business relationships with companies.
Also, Aramco has a strategic geographic location in the East and the West. Actually, Aramco always looking to attract new employees who are talented, motivated, and who can help them achieving the company’s ambitious plans and participate in continued successes. Google, because its mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and usable. As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google’s founders developed a new approach to online search.
Google is one of the world’s more respected brands and is recognized as the world’s largest Internet search engine. Google is one of the most innovative companies of the past decade, moving the company beyond the traditional search engine to include video, voice, wireless applications and beyond. It’s a worldwide engine search and a popular company. Google is not a conventional company, and they don’t intend to become one. They share attributes with the world’s most successful organizations. At Google, they know that every employee has something important to say, and that every employee is integral to their success.
They provide individually-tailored compensation packages that can be comprised of competitive salary, bonus, and equity components. Google has offices around the globe, but regardless of where they are, they nurture an invigorating, positive environment by hiring talented, local people who share their commitment to creating search perfection and want to have a great time doing it. Finally, Microsoft Company because it is the first software company to create its own computer science research organization since 1991. It is a company that let the choices yours. It gives you range of amazing opportunities, you can be an expert on a particular field or area, you can be a manager, and because it has so many places to work on, we can stay working in one building, city, or country, and we can cross borders.
Also, this company let us work and show what we have from ideas and abilities and at the same time our manager helps us to improve these ideas and to get better in doing the work. They don’t listen to the manager only, but they highly value both manager and individual contributor.
The analysis for the Companies’ Websites
Aramco
In Aramco.com home page what attracted us are the blue color of background, the display of movement pictures, the daily news of the company, and the three links of health and safety, environment, and community on the middle of page. Also, they make the page very helpful because of the useful links on the top of the page where we can find the business, new business, e-services of the company, and abstract about the company.
When we applied for a job in Aramco we clicked on jobs and careers on the top left of page, then we chose job for Saudi or non- Saudi, and then we clicked on register and filled the application. After that, when we submit the application, the company will contact us as soon as an employment opportunity arises.
When you first open Google website you’ll find under the popular Google search engine a three links (Mobile – Advertising Programs – Business Solutions – Privacy Policy – Help – About Google) you go ahead and press what interest you which is ” about Google.” Then it will appear a page with four groups each group has a different color.
(Our products, Our Company, for site owner, more Google) and under each group you’ll find several links in our products they show “help” which means this is the “Help Centers” to learn the ins-and-outs of Google products and solve any problems you encounter. Also, in addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you’re looking for.
Some of their most popular features are listed below. (Everyday Essentials, Reference Tools, ChoosingKeywords, Local Search, Health Search, etc), and now we are focusing in finding a job in Google when you go to “Our company” group you’ll find four main links which are (Press Center, Jobs at Google, Corporate Info, Investor Relations). Then, when you press “press center” it will help us to know everything about Google and the kind of employee that they have and which kind of jobs they want. When you press “Jobs at Google” it will appear a page that include in the left side three main links under each other which are (life at Google, office location, joining Google, students job).
We started pressing in office location and we found that they have offices all over the world even in Middle East. They have in America, Asia pacific, Europe and Africa it’s really a worldwide organization. After that, when you go to “joining Goggle” you will find all what you need for getting a job in Google. Go down and you’ll see the “hiring process.” The process begins with searching for a job opening that interests you by job department, location, or even by key word. Then, you’ll find how to prepare your resume and the tips for it. Also, they have a link in which you can now read more about their interview process. The last hyper link is to show you how students can get an internship and which jobs are available.
Microsoft
The first thing we can see in the homepage is the four links: Home, Meet Microsoft which has (life at Microsoft, our Businesses, and Our Office Locations) as sub links, Find Your Fit which has (Professions and Technologies) as sub links, and finally Apply Now which has (Apply Process/Overview and Advanced Search). In the website Microsoft let the search for a job so easy; they have shown a job search block where the user can easily deal with it.
It contains a box to enter a keyword for the job wanted, a box to select the job category, a box to select regions or countries that you want to work in, and finally the search button. Then, the most important thing that attracts me on the page is the picture with the company’s logo; it says “Come as you are. Do what you love.” This logo makes the researcher feel comfortable if s/he want to apply for a job in the company.
Actually, for us when we heard about the company we thought that “it is hard to work in Microsoft Company because they only need people with experiences”, but when we saw this logo we changed our thought and said “there is nothing impossible we can be a member of Microsoft.” After that, there is a button for students and graduates. When we click this button a new window will open it contains a picture with different people for students and graduates, and this page contain a box to select where do you want to go to work. Then, the imagine section that they wrote is meaning full and it gives the self-confidence to the reader.
Also, they providing a like to the Facebook to see women in Microsoft, we like this because it let us know the latest news for Microsoft via Facebook. The last thing in the homepage, we saw two pictures: the one on the left is about what others are saying about Microsoft, and the other one is hyperlinked and it is about meeting Microsoft what they mean by this is to learn more about Microsoft, their culture, businesses, and locations. Now how do we search for a job? As we illustrate from the job search block. For the keyword we have written programmer, for the job category we selected IT, and for the region and countries we have selected all.
Then, after pressing the search button a new page will open, it is for search and saved searches. It contains the same data that we have entered and three more. Those three are product to select which product you want to work on, division to select the division you want to work in, and finally the location of the job. For the product we have selected all the products, for the division we have chosen IT, and for the location we chosen all.
On the same page we have five different tabs: my profile, search and saved searchers, job cart, resumes/CVs, jobs applied for. For the job cart tab we have to sign in first from our hotmail email and continue the procedures. For the resumes/CVs tab we can create a resume according Microsoft’s needs. The last tab jobs applied for is when you have been applied at any position in Microsoft they will show up the jobs for you.
Conclusion
In conclusion and after doing this assignment, we understand that finding our dream job in this life defends really on us, and who we understand the meaning of a “Dream Job”. And on our meetings we used a step by step guide that helps us to find our dream job. First of all, “Know exactly what a dream job means”. Secondly, “Loosely describe our dream job”. After that, ask ourselves “What is my dream job?” and “Find my job titles”. Finally “Find the right industries, companies and bosses for you”. And after answering these questions we found that Aramco, Google and Microsoft occurs jobs that fits with our dream as computer science and engineer students most.
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