Career in IT? This will be going to help you for sure!

MCA, B.Tech. – CS/IT, M.Sc.- IT, BE or other graduate or post graduate degree holders have great career opportunities in IT field but the success is for those who identify the career prospects in the field. During the degree, most of students feel an easy access to the job market but they get disillusioned when the reality is faced by the students and there is always a skill gap for most of the students. So let us find out skills set required for a student to get transformed into a professional. This content is supported by inputs from various successful professionals and HR, technical departments of various IT companies which will help IT students to identify the career opportunities in IT field and how these opportunities can be achieved. Every journey has a starting point and of course career in IT has too a beginning point so aspirant must have knowledge about these questions – “What is the first step in a career in Information Technology?” What types of skills are necessary for an IT career?

Analytical skills and technical aptitude are the most important skills. What does the customer require? Age is not a barrier, young or old, and aspirant don’t have to be good at math, and don’t need 4 years in college! You do need to be able to solve problem and take responsibility of new challenges.

Team-oriented as well as individualistic approach is required. You can work from home or you can be in an office providing technical support or maybe have a management position. There’s great flexibility in IT.

The growth is endless! There is a shortage of people, so companies recruit from campus and are even willing to train you. This is great for people making a career change. One must have a basic programming knowledge with good analytic abilities. IT field has two major fields where professionals can choose their field according to the adaptability. People who are more comfortable with software development can choose development else there an option for ‘Hardware and Networking’ for those who find difficult make an accordance with software development. So, skills compatibility of the candidate needs to be observed by candidate with expert’s guidance.

Today, computers are used by everybody for various reasons. Small businesses need IT expertise, while many big companies have in-house IT departments, or outsource to an IT service company. Accounting, finance, manufacture, service, infrastructure and all major industries use IT software and hardware and the demand is relentlessly increasing for application so for the manpower as well. IT and IT consultancy companies are divided into three categories such as Tier – I, Tier – II and Tier – III. Tier I companies are mostly MNCs having huge turnover and client base and cater to big orginazations on large scale. TSC, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Accenture are the examples for Tier – I companies. Tier – II companies have presence in big metropolitan cities but their client base is not as big as Tier – I. Tier – III are the companies which have small manpower and the business and prefer to cater to small requirements of the clients and work on small scale. So, initial salary gets decided by joining in the particular tier but growth opportunities are huge and there is always manpower transfer between all tiers of the industry.

This is about career orientation in IT field and there are endless opportunities in IT and this field helps all other industries to easy various tasks by automating the system. To be successful in IT field the prospect need to understand the user defined and undefined requirement. I will continue with some other guidelines which might be useful for you but those will be useful only if when followed.