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Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is one of the most important roles in the tech industry. The global cybersecurity market is projected to grow from almost $218 billion USD in 2021 to more than $345 billion by 2026. Here’s a bird’s-eye view of some the role’s mission-critical skills:
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Cryptography
Definition: The science of creating and implementing algorithms that secure data during communication and transactions.
Key Competencies: Understanding of cryptosystems, cryptanalysis, and the basic principles of symmetric and asymmetric key encryption
Assessment Areas: Analytical Skills, Steam Cyphers, Block Ciphers, Message Integrity, Hash Functions, and more
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Kubernetes
Definition: Implementing compliance configurations for teams to secure container-based Kubernetes applications.
Key Competencies: Best practices for container lifecycle and Kubernetes management during build, deployment, and runtime.
Assessment Areas: Pod security policies, Kubernetes Secrets, Security Context, RBAC, and more
Data Engineer
Data Engineers play a significant role in obtaining key insights. In fact, this role is so valuable to organizations that data engineering is positioned to be one of the fastest-growing tech careers — with over 50% year-over-year growth. Some top skills to evaluate are:
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Python
Definition: An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language, and one of the most popular languages for rapid development across multiple platforms.
Key Competencies: Closures and decorators, using magic methods in Python, object-oriented programming, and more
Assessment Areas: Object-oriented programming, collections, context managers, and more
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Machine Learning
Definition: Machine Learning, a subdomain of artificial intelligence, allows computers to produce output without being explicitly programmed.
Key Competencies: Feature selection and machine learning model selection, procuring data, data visualization, record sampling, and more.
Assessment Areas: Jupyter Notebook, UCI Machine Learning Repository, data visualization, record sampling, and more
Full Stack Engineer
Full-Stack Engineers set the groundwork to get the job done. Because of their skills on both the front- and back-end, they are highly sought after. In September of 2021, there were nearly 13,000 open full-stack job roles. Here are a few key skills these candidates should excel in:
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React
Definition: React is a framework that works with Javascript to render dynamic page content, maintaining a state variable for each dynamic element.
Key Competencies: Managing controlled components, routing with Params, fetching, processing data using web requests, and more.
Assessment Areas: APIs, basic hooks, familiarity with component lifecycle (e.g. mounting, updating, error handling), and more
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CSS
Definition: CSS is primarily used to enable text styling, tables, and to format the layout of web pages. It is usable with any XML-based markup language.
Key Competencies: Cascading and inheritance, understanding the use of text and layouts in CSS, and more
Assessment Areas: Box models; text styling fundamentals like font, spacing and other text features; layout fundamentals, and more
Front-End Developer
Front-end developers play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical aspects of web or app development projects. They build on the work of back-end developers to create the user-facing content we interact with on websites and apps. The field is growing, too: the US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 13% growth through 2028. Critical skills:
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CSS
Definition: CSS is primarily used to enable text styling, tables, and to format the layout of web pages. It is usable with any XML-based markup language.
Key Competencies: Cascading and inheritance, understanding the use of text and layouts in CSS, and more.
Assessment Areas: Box models; text styling fundamentals like font, spacing and other text features; layout fundamentals, and more.
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JavaScript
Definition: Javascript has been used for programming web browsers and on the server-side with Node. Main uses include adding interactive behavior to web pages, creating web and mobile apps, and more.
Key Competencies: Design Patterns, Memory management, concurrency model, and event loops, among others.
Assessment Areas: Object-oriented solutions, memory management, concurrency models
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