What are the ingredients to understand the right IT career path

Most freshers in IT industry are really struggling to find the right job for them.  After coming out of college, the fresher do not have a clear idea on what they want to do.   The entry to IT industry should be very well planned.  Before entering into IT sector, a fresher should evaluate himself by answering few questions to himself.

1. What he wants to be in 5 years?
2. What are the future commitments he/she has?
3. What are the branches available in IT sector?  Which sector gives the maximum career growth?
4. Is it the right way?
5. Will I get the right job in the right company? Even if I get, will I get the right platform for my career growth?

Most of the freshers enter a company just for the sake of getting job.  The main aspect of any career development is how he/she is going to move ahead in their career.   Though Salary is also important in one's career, Salary alone should not be the primary focus in the beginning of the career.  One should choose the right platform to start the IT career.   For example, if a candidate has a passion towards testing, he/she should learn in depth of the testing, processes, standards, documentation, career growth in testing etc at the entry level.  One should not think all this after joining a company.  




Most of the freshers join the company, believing that the company will provide the comprehensive training to the freshers.   The truth is, most of the candidates remain in bench for a longer time since they could not cope up with the market expectations of the client.  So the companies always go for experience people at the time of execution of the project and the freshers are exposed to tasks that do not provide adequate exposure for a best career prospects.   Only few companies groom the freshers over the period of time to help them grow in career.   The freshers need to put all out effort to spend more time and get professional training as per the market expectations and do proof of concepts that simulates the scenarios of the real world applications 





Hope the viewers enjoyed the article and it is useful to them. I really enjoy contributing articles which will be useful to the college pass outs and help them get a reasonable good job.



The author of this blog is Sridhar T A , Southern Info Systems, who has 19+ years of experience in IT industry and have interviewed 2000+ of candidates.   He has trained over 100+ of students with professional real time project training in Java, Dot Net, LAMP, Android with PhoneGap, Cloud Computing,  etc.

If you want to contact the author mail to Sridhar T A, Southern Info Systems