Ok here goes, let's hope this isn't too vague 
I'm seeking some sort of guidance over what sort of direction I should/could take my career. I have 2:1 (hons) in Computer Science and I have been working for the past 18 months in a software company called Sefas.
Basically what we do is write software using our products which will create/format document information (such as BT Bills, 3 Mobile etc.) right down to management of bill runs at the major Astron print centres.
Since this is quite specialised I can't see my knowledge of Sefas products being of any anywhere else.
And since it's such a small company I can't see any room for any real career development.
I want to stick with development for the moment, but I also want real room for my career to develop in the future. My parents have suggested to me that perhaps the best thing to do would be to apply to large firms.
The only problem I can see at the moment is that they tend to ask for people with a few years experience in the commercial environment, with languages such as C,C#,Java etc.
Now although i've used all these languages and I can pick up an understanding of just about any programming language fairly quickly, I could hardly call myself expert or even proficient enough with any of them to be able to use confidentally in a job.
So the question is where do I go next?
/wonders if the above made any sense whatsoever
I'm seeking some sort of guidance over what sort of direction I should/could take my career. I have 2:1 (hons) in Computer Science and I have been working for the past 18 months in a software company called Sefas.
Basically what we do is write software using our products which will create/format document information (such as BT Bills, 3 Mobile etc.) right down to management of bill runs at the major Astron print centres.
Since this is quite specialised I can't see my knowledge of Sefas products being of any anywhere else.
And since it's such a small company I can't see any room for any real career development.
I want to stick with development for the moment, but I also want real room for my career to develop in the future. My parents have suggested to me that perhaps the best thing to do would be to apply to large firms.
The only problem I can see at the moment is that they tend to ask for people with a few years experience in the commercial environment, with languages such as C,C#,Java etc.
Now although i've used all these languages and I can pick up an understanding of just about any programming language fairly quickly, I could hardly call myself expert or even proficient enough with any of them to be able to use confidentally in a job.
So the question is where do I go next?
/wonders if the above made any sense whatsoever
(well apart from C, since it's very similar to the language we use in work)