Five emerging career paths for future IT aspirants

By Avinash Bharwani

IT industry is going through a digital shift across the world. With this shift, the sector will be in need of more skilled professionals to manage the digital transformation. IT is becoming an important part in almost every section of the industry including our daily lives, redefining our daily work and the way we live. Currently, the industry is going through some new business innovations with the exploitation of Social-Mobile-Analytic and Cloud (SMAC) concept. These four driving ingredients ensure smooth functioning of business. It provides new business and ways to reach and interact with customers. Niche skills like SMAC are also gaining momentum in IT hiring and emerging as a favourable career prospect for students. Therefore, it’s essential for IT aspirants to update themselves with advanced skills in data analytics, as the IT industry is gearing itself up for big data and cloud computing.

Below is a list of five emerging career paths that would be most preferred career options for future IT aspirants:

Remote Support Management: There is need in organizations for remote support management to troubleshoot, diagnose and streamline issues. By pusuing the relevant course, one can be a remote support manager. Through this support professionals will be able to extend their services to the rapidly growing number of IT companies with security and reliability. Remote support proves to be efficient, cost effective and also enables one to multi-task with easy accessibility from any place with connectivity.

Smart City Engineers: This course focuses on strategies that can enable entrepreneurial, liveable, high-performance urban districts with real-time simulation and urban design strategies. At present, the research and industrial applications in the area of Smart Cities look to enhance systems through the use of digital networks. Optimization techniques mark incremental improvements in energy efficiency and other issues.

Big data/ Developer/Analytics: This tool makes it easier to map consumer behaviour, their purchases and preferences. Availability of this cluster data promises great potential for organizations to extract insightful information to use as a competitive advantage against their counterparts in the industry. Data analysts and data scientists continue to be in great demand since they acquire unique skills in areas such as mathematics, statistics and management science, combined with associated IT skills.