CAREER PROSPECTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Now IT plays a major role in the economic growth of every country. At present Information and technology offer above 4 lakhs of job opportunities. It is expected to be above 22 lakhs by the end of 2010.

Mainly in four sectors it provides majority of job opportunities

1.IT SERVICES
2.SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
3.IT ENABLED SERVICES
4.E-BUISINESS.

In the initial phase,IT boom begin with Medical Transcribtion, later trend changed to BPO which offer a high salary and job satisfaction to every professional with good LANGUAGE SKILL.

As a part of the new economic policy ,Multinational companies in the developing countries expanded their services, accounting, customer care , keeping developing countries as their ‘back end’.They made it possible because of the availability of the
Internet and computer networking .

Hot jobs in IT

Glamorous jobs are said to be THE HOT JOBS ,BECAUSE IT PROVIDES HIGH SALARY AS WELL AS JOB OPPURTUNITIES.


Programmers/Engineers
Communication Engineers
Networking experts
Internet/E-Commerce/Multimedia experts
System software and support process/System management/Consulting Database Management experts.
LAN administration Experts
Office/E- mail/Groupware Experts.
IT- enabled animation Experts.
WAP &ASP Experts
Web designers/Content staff

What is it’s scope abroad?

Multinational companies, Airline services, Banks, hospitals are providing abundant job opportunities to numerous other countries through BPO.Out of these, around 85% of the jobs have done by call centers and animation centers. Time zone variations, cost effective services, availability of qualified Professionals and their good language skills are certain factors favorable for counties like India. If we can make use of this situation we can gain much more than what we have. NASCO Points out that by the end of 2010, India can earn up to 24 billion dollar through BPO . India can improve further on certain sectors like product development, designing, software modeling, customer services, data processing, and E learning.

Foreign countries are in need of computer professionals. In America itself around 2 lakhs of professionals are required. Similarly Germany, Ire land ,Japan may also provide jobs for above 30,000 professionals in coming years.


HOW TO EXCEL IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

Before choosing this as your career, Look forward and asses that whether your skills and aptitudes are suiting to this profession. .Then you can conquer the glamorous world of IT.

The basic skills required are ….

1.Critical skill
2.Buisiness skill
3.Personal skill
4.Technical skill

1.Critical skill
It involves the ability to identify the Logic(The art of resoning )
behind every aspects

2.Buisiness Skill

You must have an adequate mental Preperation as a ‘Nice sales person’. You should know the tricks and tactics for the existence. Because you are a part of the ‘Team’.

3.Personal skill

Prime preference would be given to your Honesty, Intelligence, High –spiritedness, Commitment to the profession etc. More over you are an easily- approachable person to everyone. Humbleness is also essential for this field.

Ability to work in Team, Your leadership capabilities will also be taken in to consideration.

4.Technical skill
If you pocess all other reqirements mentioned above, this can be easily achieved. It deals with the basic knowledge in technical aspects.

So look out for these skills in you and make yourself suitable to this profession……….