CHAN: If you remember what it was like to do an important exam, this might bring back some memories. South Korean students are sitting for nationwide tests that will determine their future careers. STORY: It’s everything or bust: parents and students alike are anxious as South Korea’s nation-wide college entrance exam begins. This is no minor exam; the state-sponsored College Scholastic Aptitude Test is the most important assessment for students. Acing the exam is considered a key to success for South Koreans – in other words, they not only determine career paths but even marriage partners. Graduates of elite universities are much sought after by top Korean companies and later for marriage. Across the country dozens of students sing, dance, chant slogans and gave out coffee for senior classmates as they arrive to take the exams. But some parents are not so cheerful. [Mother of Student Sitting for Exam]: “She called me — she said she had left the admission ticket for the exam at home, she took everything except the most important thing!” Days before the test, mothers just like this one crowded at Buddhist temples and churches around the country, to pray for their child’s success at the exam. [Kang Min-soo, Mother]: “I am clinging to our Buddha. I am praying that my daughter will be good and healthy and enter the college she wants to go to.” [Illeana, Mother]: “My daughter studied hard to be well prepared. But anybody can be irritated or anxious at the exams, so I pray …
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First session of Software QA class at Portnov Computer School – part 3. What is Software Testing job market in general and specifically in San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1994 we have being specializing in career training in the area of Software Quality Assurance. School name is a well known and widely recognized brand in the Software Testing world. The Portnov Computer School is not a purely academic but rather job market driven short-term training institution, which measures its success in job placement of the graduates. Majority of our students join the program because they want jobs, not degrees – 90% of them already have college degrees in all the imaginable fields including IT, mechanical and electrical engineering, teaching, accounting, etc. Whatever your previous professional and educational background – there is a good chance that in 4-6 month you will be working in Software QA field after completion of our classroom training and an internship with a local software company. With 13 years of experience in job placement and writing SQA resumes, with over 2000 graduates working in practically all the Silicon Valley companies, with hundreds of our graduates working as QA Directors, QA Managers, and QA Team Leads our job placement assistance is really unparalleled. Looking for a career change? Have gap in employment? Lost the competitive edge? Do not feel confident to start your job search campaign? Not happy with your current job? – If your answer to any of these …