Career Path for Fresher in IT

Driven by an improvement in the global economic climate and rise in the technology spend and also India becoming breeding ground for start-ups focusing on Mobility and e- commerce, Fresh graduates can be optimistic about  job  opportunities in IT sector in different roles.  This post will help freshers to choose IT career path of their interest by analyzing pros and cons of various paths.

1.      Web Design and SEO.  Almost every business, however big or small it may be, has a website.  Even companies like Google are promoting this cause in a big way by having programs like www.indiagetonline.in . Many small businesses can have a free .in website using this program. Ex www.8-fifteenacad.in . Sadly most of this websites are poorly designed and are not going to attract clients. Realizing the importance of websites many businesses will hire professional Web designers either as freelancers or even in-house them. So if you are a fresh graduate and have passion for designing using tools like photoshop, Web designing is a good choice for you.  http://www.metaforumtechnologies.com/webdesign.html . SEO or Search Engine Optimization on the other hand is no more a luxury, it is actually a need. A good web design complemented by excellent SEO strategy will surely help businesses catch customer eyeball, thereby increase in revenue.  There are plenty of opportunities for fresh graduates either as SEO analysts or as freelancers. http://www.metaforumtechnologies.com/seo.html

2.      Second option for fresh graduates and most popular option is in traditional IT paths like C/C++,JAVA, J2EE,ORACLE, .NET, PHP. Freshers can find plenty of openings in these skills. But cons will be competition, pay package and automation in software services (which is going to cut 1/3^rd of current job profiles.)  http://www.metaforumtechnologies.com/java.html

3.      Third option for fresh graduates and most happening option are in niche areas like Hadoop, Android apps development.  Big data and data analytics will produce millions of jobs in next 5 years.  It is relatively new concept and hence less competition for a fresher to get into IT.  Freshers have plenty of scope in android apps development either as freelancer or as developer.  http://www.metaforumtechnologies.com/big-data-hadoop.html

4.      Fourth option for fresh graduates and traditional option is in software testing. Most of the freshers will be allocated either in support project or in testing project. Testing also has 1000’s of opening in India. Popular courses include Manual testing, Automated testing, QTP, Selenium, load runner etc..  http://www.metaforumtechnologies.com/selenium-testing.html

5.      Fifth option for fresh graduates and less explored option is in ERPs like ERP. ERP, a German company has almost 70% of the ERP market among fortune 500 companies.  ABAP is the programming language of ERP and has 1000’s of opening for fresh graduates. Business Intelligence or BWI/BW is a datawarehouse of ERP. Many companies are hiring freshers as BI consultant. ERP also has a reporting tool caleed Business Objets, which again offer plenty of scope for freshers.  http://www.metaforumtechnologies.com/erp-abap.html  http://www.metaforumtechnologies.com/erp-biw.html