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How to Choose a Career?

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"How to choose an appropriate career?" This is one of the most common questions asked by students or the one who is about to start his/her career in IT field. When the time comes for you to pick a career, you will discover that you have numerous options. It can be difficult to pick one, especially if you have no idea what you want to do, or if many things appeal to you. Does it seem like an invincible task? It's not. Yes, you will have to put some effort into making your decision, but your effort will be worthy in the end. 

If you consider the following factors, you can successfully choose a suitable career in IT discipline and avoid making a big mistake:

 

1) Programming Language 

If you haven't selected your first programming language to learn, that's the first most required step to do. When all campaigners say that their programming language is the best, choosing one to start with can be incredibly overwhelming.

There exist a number of points to decide when choosing your first and foremost 'KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR' language/platform.

  • Area of Interest

Code is everywhere, you have so many options to choose language, but before choosing any of them, you have to analyse yourself that which field you like the most!

Do you want to build Web applications? Or you're good at Mobile Technologies? These different platforms require different skillset/languages. For example, if you want to build modern websites and web apps, learn JavaScript, Ruby and Ruby on Rails or PHP, if you want to build Android apps, learn Java, if you want to build a Mac or iPhone app, learn Swift, if you want to work on big, complex, data-driven sites and apps, you have to go for SQL too, if you want to build games or audio/video apps, learn C++, if you want to build windows apps,  go for C#. These are just examples of languages you can go for, otherwise you have a large number of options for each and every field.

  • Latest Programming Technologies

Languages are increasing day by day. Do a simple web search and you will find hundreds of programming languages in existence. You must know about the current programming languages that are used nowadays because each latest and updated language will have something NEWER, RELIABLE & BETTER. You must keep yourself updated about latest programming technologies and updates of them.

There are a few good sources that you can refer:

- Hacker News

- GitHub Trending

- Stackoverflow

- Podcasts

Try to follow good technology pages on social media. 

  • Current Market Trends

Language never dies, NEWER & OLDER all the languages are used by the world but which one is used the most in current industries, that is more important. To stay relevant in the job market and to be always in the edge of productivity choose to consider current market trends.

Refer following links for this: 

- PYPL

- TIOBE

- Trendy Skills

  • Community Support 

Find the community of your programming language. For that, check out suitable programming forums and online communities, because BIGGER the community is, LESSER the time it will take to solve your bugs/problems.

  • Industry

Among all industries, IT industry is one of the fastest growing industries. There are various companies that invest in software and technology fields. Famous examples are Apple, Microsoft etc. All these software industries prefer different operating systems, programming languages and platforms. Do a complete research on them. Checkout all top software companies in software industry and keep yourself updated about them. 

We have provided some links here:

- http://marketrealist.com/2014/07/must-know-overview-software-industry-2/ 

- https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/technology/publications/global-100-software-leaders/explore-the-data.html

- http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/121714/worlds-top-10-software-companies.asp

 

2) Company

  • MNC (Multinational Corporation)

A multinational corporation or worldwide enterprise is a corporate organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in two or more countries other than their home country.

Pros & Cons of MNCs: 

  • Higher Starting Salaries
  • Hire & Fire in BULK
  • Career Opportunity
  • Diversity
  • Organizational Culture Obstacles
  • Mid Level 

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, mid Level companies are those with 50 to 250 workers.

Pros & Cons of Mid Level Company:

  • Work Life Balance
  • Updated Technology and Accounting Systems
  • Working Conditions
  • Scaling
  • Provides employees the potential for lateral career moves
  • Start Up

A Start Up is a young company that is just started to develop. Startups are usually small and initially financed and operated by a handful of founders or an individual.

Pros & Cons of Start Up:

  • Responsibilities & Opportunities
  • Emotional Ups and Downs
  • Job Performance
  • Heavy Workload
  • You Learn A Lot
  • Small Level 

Small-Level Companies have less number of Employees and does not have high volume of sales. It's annual revenue is lesser than a Mid Level or MNC Level Enterprise.

Pros & Cons of Small Level Companies:

  • Variety of projects and technologies
  • More of a “FAMILY” Feeling
  • A Great Place To Work
  • Less Formal Standards

 

3) Salary Standard

Salary standard is one of the most important aspects to consider when you are choosing you are career. 

  • Company

Following data shows average salary ranges of all level companies. 

Average Salary Per Month In All Level Companies

  • Programming Language 

Following research conveys the average salary paid per month with respect to programming languages.

Average Salary Per Month For Various Programming Languages

  • Experience

Average salary per month based on your experience. The more your experience, the more you will earn.

Average Salary Per Month Based on Your Experience

  • City

Average salary per month differentiates in diverse cities, as shown in following figure: 

Average Salary Per Month in Various Top Cities

  • Cost of Living

If you have to migrate from your home city to other city then you will have higher cost of living. Following given points depict each and every aspect.

  • House Rent/Loan
  • Daily Meals
  • Transportation
  • Life Style

Following data shows the cost of living in each city.

Estimation of Cost Of Living

 

4) Future Scope/ Growth

India is the fastest growing economy as well as the big IT hub so more and more opportunity will come in further years in IT field. Refer following link: 

http://www.indiaeducation.net/computers-it/the-future-scope-of-the-it-industry-in-india.html

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-scope-of-IT-in-india

https://indolinkenglish.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/the-future-scope-of-the-it-industry-in-india/

To pick up the pace with growing opportunities and careers in IT sector you will also need to keep yourself improving and adapting with evolution. So, you need to have strong and genuine technical skills for that. After all, career is a journey, not destination!

 

Hope this article will help you to choose your dream career! Thank You!

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