The document discusses career options in the IT industry. It begins by outlining various career paths for all students, including careers in science, commerce, arts, and fields like law, healthcare, engineering, banking, and more. It then focuses specifically on career progression in the IT industry from secondary school to doctorate levels. Various types of IT workspaces like BPOs, software companies, electronics labs, and data centers are also outlined. Finally, numerous specific job profiles in the IT industry are detailed, such as roles in BPO, software development, hardware, networking, web design, mobile applications, cybersecurity, and data analysis.

1. Career in IT Industry
Vinay Jindal
Sr. Director Engineering
IoT83 Inc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinayjindal
vinay.jindal@gmail.com

2. Agenda
● Career Choices - All Students
● Career Progression - IT
Industry
● How IT Industry workspaces
look like ?
● Career Choices - IT Industry
● Questions

3. Career Choices - All Students
Media Personnel,
Historians,
Lawyers,
Linguists, Artists,
Economists etc.
Doctors, Healthcare
Workers, Engineers,
CTOs, CIOs,
Scientists, Data
Analytics, Defense,
Bankers etc.
CA, CS, CFA,
CFOs,
Accountants,
Economists,
Bankers etc.
IAS, IPS, CEOs, MDs, Entrepreneurs, Thinkers, Visionaries,
Politicians, Economists, Sportsmen, Defense etc
SCIENCE Commerce Arts

4. Career Progression - IT Industry
Senior
Secondary
Graduation
Post
Graduation
Doctorate
Diploma
B.Tech/Diploma
3 years
3
years
3/4/5
years
2 Year
4+
Year
MTech/MBA
BCA/Diploma/ITI/NIIT
Science
Students
Non-Scienc
e Students
PHD
MCA/MBA

5. How IT Industry
workspaces look
like ?

6. BPO/KPOs

7. Software
Companies

8. Electronics
Labs

9. Data Centers

10. Career Choices - IT
Industry
Types of Job Profiles in IT Industry

11. BPO (Business Process
Outsourcing) Agent
● Call Center Agents - Incoming /
Outgoing Calls
● Domestic or International
● Minimum Qualifications - 10/12
passouts, Fluency in English or
regional language, willing to talk to
people

12. BPO (Business Process
Outsourcing) Agent
● Call Center Agents - Incoming /
Outgoing Calls
● Domestic or International
● Minimum Qualifications - 10/12
passouts, Fluency in English or
regional language, willing to talk to
people

13. BPO (Business Process
Outsourcing) Agent
● Call Center Agents - Incoming /
Outgoing Calls
● Domestic or International
● Minimum Qualifications - 10/12
passouts, Fluency in English or
regional language, willing to talk to
people

14. KPO (Knowledge
Process Outsourcing)
Agent
● Trascriptions - Medical, Legal,
Multi-lingual etc
● Business Research & Analysis
● Marketing & Publishing
● Minimum Qualifications -
Graduates & above

15. Animation and
Multimedia Creator
● Creates Multimedia images,
videos, animations, graphics for
games, movies, websites etc.
● Uses software tools like AutoCAD
etc.
● Qualification - Graduates
(Specialized courses)

16. Software Developer
(Systems Platform
Engineer)
● Creates Softwares like Operating
Systems - Android, Windows,
Linux, its tools etc
● Plenty of software coding involved
in computer languages like
C/C++/Python etc.
● Minimum Qualification - Graduates
(Preferably B.Tech)

17. Computer Hardware
Designer
& Developer
● Design Electronic Hardware
devices like motherboards,
laptops, mobile phones, cameras
and other electronic devices
● Uses electronic languages like
VSDL etc.
● Minimum Qualification - Graduates
(Preferably B.Tech)

18. Testing & Quality
Assurance Engineer
(QA)
● Anything that gets built need to be
tested thoroughly before releasing
in public hands
● Field as vast as software
development
● Companies have big QA team
validating each aspect of system,
websites etc.
● People need to have attitude of
breaking things from
outside/inside
● Automation related software
development may be needed as
well
● Minimum Qualification - Graduates
(Preferably B.Tech, MCAs)

19. Devops Engineer -
Hardware
● Creates and maintains the
infrastructure of running systems
● Works behind the scenes and 24x7
without normal person’s
knowledge
● Data Centers, IT systems, Servers,
Machines are setup and
maintained by Devops
● Qualification - Graduates
(preferably
B.Tech/MCAs/Specialized
Diploma)

20. Devops Engineer -
Software
● Creates and maintains the
infrastructure of running systems
● Works behind the scenes and 24x7
without normal person’s
knowledge
● Takes care of software like
operating systems and other tools
like firewalls, policies on complete
running systems
● Qualification - Graduates
(preferably
B.Tech/MCAs/Specialized
Diploma)

21. Devops Engineer -
Cloud
● Takes care of software like
operating systems and other tools
like firewalls, policies on Cloud
Based Systems
● 24x7 job profile
● Qualification - Graduates
(preferably
B.Tech/MCAs/Specialized
Diploma)

22. IT Engineer - Hardware
● Sets up IT Data Centers, Networks,
Company IT policies in companies,
schools, hospitals etc.
● Qualification - Graduates (
B.Tech/MCAs/Specialized
Diploma)

23. IT Engineer - Software
● Takes car of software part of this
job
● Qualification - Graduates (
B.Tech/MCAs/Specialized
Diploma)

24. Networking
Professional - Hardware
● Specialized in setting up Networks
devices, Firewalls at different
organizations
● Qualification - Graduates (
B.Tech/MCAs/Specialized
Diploma/ Specialized
Certifications like CCNA, CCNP
etc.)

25. Networking
Professional - Software
● Specialized in setting up Networks
software, networking policies etc
at different organizations
● Qualification - Graduates (
B.Tech/MCAs/Specialized
Diploma/ Specialized
Certifications like CCNA, CCNP
etc.)

26. Web Designer
(UI/UX Developer)
● Designs and creates the frontend
of web based systems like
Websites, Web based Apps etc.
● Uses different programming
languages like HTML, CSS,
Javascript etc
● Qualification - Graduates (
B.Tech/MCAs)

27. Web Developer
(Backend Developer)
● Designs and creates the backend
of web based systems like
Websites, Web based Apps and
systems etc.
● Uses different programming
languages like Java, Javascript,
Python, NodeJS, RoR etc
● Qualification - Graduates (
B.Tech/MCAs)

28. Mobile Application
Developer
● Designs and creates Mobile based
Applications
● Android/IOS/Microsoft Windows
● Qualification - Graduates (
B.Tech/MCAs)

29. CyberSecurity Engineer
● Ensures information security of
organizations
● Uses plenty of software based
tools to setup and find out
malwares, viruses to keep the
network and data secure
● Qualification - Graduates (
B.Tech/MCAs/Specialized
courses)

30. Data Engineer -
Engineer, Analyst,
Scientist
● Analysis data to help businesses
take decisions
● E.g. Corona virus related studies -
spread patterns, infection rates
etc.
● Qualification - Graduates (
B.Tech/MCAs/Specialized
courses)

31. Questions
Vinay Jindal
Sr. Director Engineering
IoT83 Inc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinayjindal
vinay.jindal@gmail.com