Hot Career Opportunities in IT
Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Telecom or Pharma--speak of any industry and you'll get to hear of their stupendous growth. IT is the backbone behind all sectors and plays a pivotal role in the growth of the business. All these sectors require the services of skilled IT people. Starting this month, we'll feature a regular story on hot career opportunities in IT.
Today, there's a growing requirement for IT professionals in areas such as programming, engineering, database, information warehousing, Internet and E-Commerce, enterprise application deployment and management, SOA, and networking. Each area requires professionals at all levels right from the architects who'll define these solutions to managers who will implement and manage them.
We'll start off with the developer segment, because that's one segment which spans all others. For instance, although you need professionals with business and implementation knowledge for deploying enterprise applications like ERP and CRM, you'll still need somebody who can customize the code of these applications. The same thing holds true for other areas as well, such as SOA, Internet and e-Commerce, etc. Let's start with a broad overview of the career opportunities in these areas.
Basically, there are two main platforms that most developer population works upon, Java and .NET. SOA is another buzzword-virtually every enterprise is trying to get on this bandwagon, and hence this field also has a high potential for IT professionals. Similarly, another area where a lot of activity is happening is embedded technologies and mobility and yes, not to forget the ERP domain which have had always been a top priority for any enterprise.
Opportunities for Java Developers
Java is a key platform being used by software houses the world over for developing applications. There's a lot of action happening in this domain, and today, there's great demand for Java professionals. There are two possible career paths that a Java professional can follow. One is Web development and the other toward building enterprise class applications.
