Career Path :
Job & Career Prospects:
Information Technology encompasses a wide range of activities like Software development & engineering, Consulting, Solution Providing, Support & Services including system integration, Networking, Office Automation, Telecommunication and Computing, and mobile computing & several IT enabled services; therefore provide a larger area of job avenues for those who have acquired the right qualifications and necessary training for it.
The revised NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies) estimates that India would require 10,00,000 trained software professionals in next few years. The present availability of such skilled people is only 35% of the required amount & quality. So we can conclude that this sector is going to provide employment to a large number of such professionals in near future.
Typical career path scenarios for BCA & MCA are :
Career Path 1: Designing and implementing software.
- This refers to the software development
which has grown to include aspects of
web development, interface design, security
issues, mobile computing, and so on.
- This is the career path that the majority
of computer science graduates follow.
- While a bachelor’s degree is generally
sufficient for entry into this kind of
career, many software professionals return
to school to obtain a terminal master’s
degree. (Rarely is a doctorate involved.)
Career Path 2: Devising new ways to use computers.
- This refers to innovation in the application
of computer technology.
- A career path in this area can involve
advanced graduate work, followed by a
position in a research university or industrial
research and development laboratory
- It can involve entrepreneurial activity
such as was evident during the dot-com
boom of the 1990s or it can involve a
combination of the two.
Career Path 3: Developing effective ways to solve computing problems.
- This refers to the application or development
of computer science theory and knowledge
of algorithms to ensure the best possible
solutions for computationally intensive
problems.
- As a practical matter, a career path
in the development of new computer science
theory typically requires graduate work
to the Ph.D. level, followed by a position
in a research university or an industrial
research and development laboratory.
Career Path 4: Planning and managing organizational technology infrastructure
- This is the type of work for which the
new information technology (IT) programs
explicitly aim to educate students.
Career paths 2 and 3 are undeniably in the domain of computer science graduates.
Career paths 1 and 4 have spawned the new majors in software engineering and information technology, respectively, and information systems graduates often follow Career path 1, too Computer scientists continue to fill these positions, but programs in software engineering, information technology, and information systems offer alternative paths to these careers.
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