There is an infinite scope and opportunities in the field of
Information Technology (IT). We know lots of career path that can be
selected from new and emerging career paths along out way. It is
necessary for one to select his/her field of interest during the study
period and its future prospects in the
context of both Nepal and abroad. Currently IT industry is facing a
severe shortage of competent human resources both locally and globally.
IT graduates can work in different companies like software
companies, financial institutions, health, corporate organisations et
cetera. Here are the following lists of most common career paths for IT
graduates in the country.
1. System administrator (SA): The SA manages all the IT resources of
an organisation and requires to manage servers, pc, network, internet,
backups, and security. The SA can get opportunity in ISP, NGO, INGO,
software companies, schools, colleges et cetera.
System analyst (SA): SA having wider scope in software companies is
responsible for performing the feasibility study of a system to prepare —
software requirement specification based on the prerequisite of the
stakeholders. The SA researches problems, plans solutions, recommends
software and systems, and coordinates development to meet business or
other requirements. They also help programmers during the
development of the software.
2. Project manager: Managing the assigned project in software
companies — they coordinate projects related communication with clients
and manage the development team, distribute project work among the team
members, and track its progress report.
3. Mobile application developer: It is one of the most demanded and fastest growing career fields in the world.
As mobile devices continue to change the way we do business,
communicate, and access news and entertainment, the demand for new and
innovative mobile applications is growing rapidly. Mobile
application developers for iPhone and android phones are in high demand.
Software developer: A software developer should have a good
programming, problem solving, and analytical skills. They can select any
one of the development platform among VB NET, Visual Basic (VB), Java,
Delphi, and Oracle Business Intelligence.
4. Web developer: The developer is responsible for the development
of websites and web applications. They can select any one of the
programming language as a development platform among PHP, ASP.NET, ASP,
JSP, Perl, Ruby on Rails. There is a huge scope of PHP and Asp Net in
Nepal. Moreover, many software
companies choose PHP as a development platform. Furthermore, PHP web
developers can gain expertise in popular open source software like
Joomla, Word Press, Drupal, Magento et cetera. Web developers working as
an expert of these software can relatively earn more. It is also good
to have knowledge of PHP framework like Zend, CodeIgniter, CakePHP et
cetera. Web developers showing sufficient expertise in open source
software and frameworks are in high demand.
5. Web Designer: A web designer should have knowledge of Photoshop/ Fireworks, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, and JQuery. However, designer should be creative enough to
make attractive websites and interfaces.
6. Search engine optimisation/ social media marketing (SEO/ SMM) expert: IT graduates
should possess sufficient skills to do online marketing of businesses
(websites) by listing it in organic search result of search engines.
They can also make use of social media and networking tools like
YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn in promoting products or services online.
These days the need of SEO expert is increasing globally.
7. Database developer: These professionals should have a good
knowledge of database design SQL since it will be used while creating
software, websites and web applications. Popular database systems used
by database developers are MySQL, Oracle and MSSQL.
8. Quality assurance (QA): QA officer are responsible for ensuring the quality of the software and
web applications. They should have knowledge of different testing
techniques, designing test cases and performing tests.
9. Technical writer: They are responsible in creating documentation
of the software and web applications and also in creating user manuals.
However, there are also other careers prospects for IT graduates
like graphics designer, system engineer, database administrator, network
engineer, ethical hacker, network security specialist, hardware
engineer et cetera. Moreover, new trends of working practices are being
developed with boundless opportunities to work from home as a
freelancer if you can reveal competent skills. Some other sectors like
animation, game developing and out-sourcing can be job sectors for IT
graduates.
Writer: KEN SUBEDI
(The author is associated with Living with ICT and CG Manipal Campion School. He can be contacted through kengb1@gmail.com)
News Source: The Himalayan Times(THT)
