Tips To Advance Your Android Career

Moving into the new year, Android professionals should stay focused on keeping up to date with their work and advancing even further. As Android mobile growth continues, there are plenty of new opportunities on the horizon for new job seekers and experienced professionals to evolve into better careers.  What can you do to best prepare?

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Here are tips to help advance in career:

1. Company Knowledge. Choosing the right company and technologies are key insights for those looking to change careers or begin a new career now. The market still remains competitive. An organization may look for the top talent who can deliver desired skills, fast response to mobility, competitive advantage and performance improvements.

2. Know Your Market. Keeping up to date and knowing the right market, trends and technologies for Android and learning to pick the right ones if there is a waiting period is important for growth. There are Android growth markets thriving such as mobile which provide cost savings options, and career opportunity to reach more consumers.

3. Social Media. Social networks as conversational networks on sites like Facebook and Twitter rely on the interactive real-time conversations. Other social networks are product specific. Connecting to an IT employer is a great way to get noticed and social media connections can be derived through having real time conversations.

4. Stay Healthy! Working in high technology and business can be very stressful. Putting your heart health first is a great self care element. There are a lot of great 21rst century heart health books, and telemedicine or medical professionals who can work with business professionals to help take the stress away. Even just 10-15 minutes of walk, cardio, jogging in place if you’re at your computer to break away and get the heart rate up helps!

5. Embrace BYOD. Management that can put trust in telecommuting will make the best culture.  Soft skills, Embracing change benefits companies. Looking into creating an ideal work environment that cultivates such skills would be beneficial.

Companies are paying top dollar for experienced Android developers. The market for application development and software architect salaries continue to rise. The top sectors rising include software development, programming and engineering. Android developers are expected to see salary increases to up to 8 percent through 2014.