In the last two decades, the Indian IT/ITES industry has contributed significantly to the Indain economic growth in terms of GDP, foreign exchange earnings and employment generation. However, equally significant, though not as tangible has been the ripple effect it has created on the general economic environment in the national and international economic space. The industry has been the trigger for many "firsts" and has contributed not only to unleashing the hitherto untapped entrepreneurial potential of the middle class Indian but also taking Indain excellence to the global market.
Career planning is an important decision of a student's life. It not only determines material prosperity but the entire life style for the rest of one's life. A student may plan his career in the field of IT & Management keeping in mind the following information.
Unlike the traditional industries, the IT sector is people intensive and creates vast employment opportunities. It is estimated that total size ot IT Industry in Indian will cross US $ 1000 billion by 2009 and become the single largest contributor to the GDP. As per the Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. of India Report,IT industry will employ more than 70 lakh professionals by the year 2009. This would, however, include professionals for the hard-core IT sector as well as for the IT enabled services.
Information Technology is a wide term boradly covering the areas of computer scicence, electornics and telecommunicatons. Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous growth in IT, whcih has almost revolutionized the vey outlook of hte world. The economy of any country is no longer measured by strenght of country is no longer measured by strenght of traditional industries ut by its technological advancemnet. it is esitmated that knowledge based business would contribute two htird of the growth in global GDP in the next ten years.
In a developing country such as ours, IT makes it possible to leapfrong many of the physical barriers and deliver basic needs like educatoin to poeple in areas that either do not have facilities or are inaccessible. With the decreasing cost of instruments and services like personal computers, cell phones and internet, direct benefit of IT sooner than later would be reaped evern by the illiterate and underprivileged.
Industry Profile
From the chip E-careers, the industry houses real talent. The industry has Computer Scientists work on the elements of chip design, mathematical modeling and reliability aspects of chip design conceiving how a computer is required to respond. Computer Technologists work on three major areas i.e. Computer manufacture, computer repair & maintenance and system integration.
Information Technologists manage an enormous range of jobs from software designing to consultancy. It is basically about how a computer cna be exploited in different fields. Information Systems Designers design alternative system for business, commercial or professional set up. Information Managers develop information system and are from a variety of backgrounds such as computer science, physical sciences, business, finance, management and engineering. Information Technology has pervaded Business & Industry, Banking & Finance Industry, Travel Sector, Medical, Architecture, Planning and Design Reasearch Education, Defence Data Analysis and Interpretation, Music, Internet, Multimedia, Dot-Coms, Convergence Technologies and Education.
Future Projections
The direct employmnet in teh IT/ITES sector is expected to be 2.0 million by end of FY09 and has been growing at a CAGR of 26% in the last decade. This makes it the employer in teh organized private sector in the country. As per data from Ministry of Labour & Employment (DGET), IT services accounted for almost 12% of the employment in organized private secotr in 2004.
IT enabled services-The NASSCOM-Mckinsey's December 1999 India report estimates that by the year 2009, IT enabled services such as call agents and medical transcriptionist are stated to become a $17 billion industry with an employment potential of one million jobs.
Call Centres
A call centre is a place that has adequate telecom facilities,. trained consultants, access to wide database, Internet and other on-line support infrastrcutre in order to provide information and support to customers on real time basis.
Multimedia
Multimedia invovles computing and audio visual technologiesto fuse video, audio, text, graphics, animation etc. in a meaningful way. There are animators, sound technicians, graphic artists, video technicians and multimedia professionals.
Operating Jobs
People who enter data into the machine exist in all user and consultancy units, large and small, in a large or medium firm, where computer operator are involved in work on a large scale, there is usually an EDP Manager for the information system. Computer Operations involves data entry, desk top publishing, etc. Employment is in organization with a large database, in publishing and dotcoms. Computer courses after 10+2 are required for these jobs. They often handle peripheral electronic devices.
Marketing Jobs
Computer marketing people at the regional office are supported by other people who tell them what they should be selling to whom and what strength their products have over their competitors. Market researchers study their products and the competitors. Market analysis requires computer professionals with a marketing background. Options for jobs exist with manufacturing and software designing firms.
Entrepreneurs
The computer industry provides services to departments of the same company or to individual clients. These services could range from renting PCs to publishing on computers, helping customers select computers for developing software and training computer professionals. Many software professionals with experience have switched over to lucrative consultancy practices. The demand for specialists is also increasing. Even desk top publishing is catching on fast.
Education
The virtual classroom is reality. Online education is very much an established phenomena.
Out of 8,00,000 entry level jobs (including e-commerce, IT-enabled services, ancillary jobs and hardware)-5,00,000 are for candidates with end-user skills.
India is looked upon as an intellectual IT hub across the globe and we are training our students in the field with latest job oriented syllabi. Our students are being trained to cater to the need of BPO; IT enabled services, CAD CAM, programming system designer and support system. Our courses in IT lead to the career opportunities such as IT Consultant. Hardware Design Engineers, System Designers, Programmers, System Analyst, Software Engineering, Training Faculty, R & D Scientists EDP Manager, Programmer, System Specialist/Manager and Project Manager etc.
Hardware Jobs
Hardware refers to computer chips circuit boards, Computer system and related equipment like keyed equipment such as keyboards, modem and printers. Hardware jobs are in manufacturing of computers and auxiliaries, assembly, marketing and maintenance. As per NASSCOM, the hardware industry revenues could touch $62 billion by 2010. This means that by 2010, the Indian hardware industry can grow almost 12 times the existing market size with proportionate demand for hardware engineers.
Networking
Networking experts give connectivity to the various system nodes over a local or wide area network (LAN/WAN). Designing , building and maintaining information networks, within or between organizations, is their task. Networking is the fastest growing segment in the communications field, a growth of arround 35% annually. The job entails analyzing, installing and configuring the company's networks, monitoring networks performance, troubleshooting and maintenance are major responsibilities. Emerging technology in Network is Internet Security.
Software Jobs
System programmer/Software Engineer, System Programmers research, develop and adapt application programmes for computer systems. In other words, they direct the computer and tell it what to do and how to function. However, these two jobs can overlap and sometimes the same individual is a system solustion for enterprise wide computing which combines functions manufacturing, distribution and finance applications to synergize the resources of an enterprise.
Web Options
Professionals in dotcoms design WebPages of take up a technical job on the server side. Websites of education, business,services, institutions, organisations, agencies provide ready options for work. Growth of the internet and the expansion of the World Wide Web have generated a variety of occupations relating to the design, development and maintenance of Web sites and their servers.
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