5 high demand career in 2021

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5 high demand career options in 2021

One sentence which electrified us on seeing in this lockdown is “we are hiring”. The unexpected pandemic has disturbed everything in the world. Right from the global economy to our lifestyle. It is estimated that around 41 lack youth lost their job in this tough period. (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/41-lakh-youth-lose-jobs-in-india-due-to-covid-19-pandemic-ilo-adb-report/articleshow/77613218.cms?from=mdr).

Despite the pandemic and job loss, there are millions of people working for low wages and another millions of people are facing lack of work satisfaction. This could be because of unavailability of sufficient information.

Surprisingly the demand for certain jobs has not dried up. Instead in certain fields hiring talented persons for that particular role has been increasing. This provides a hope for many job aspirants. If you are one of those who is searching job even this global crisis, or planning to make a career shift to a better option or haunting for your perfect job I have gathered and listed five jobs that will definitely help you.

1. Mobile App developer

When lockdown commenced and we had to stay at home, our life mostly relayed on mobile. Office is shifted to zoom call; we paid bills through to Google pay, played ludo and PUBG to kill boredom and mastered it! Social media apps helped to connect with people in this social distancing time. With that in this pandemic, mobile apps have become undeclared essential of most people. Many apps made our life easy and so to the business owner as well.

Having said that, it doesn’t mean apps were not popular before. But the download and usage of many apps have increased drastically.  And also people develop apps according to the need of current situation. For instance, Arogya setu app which is developed to spread awareness of covid-19 and to tract the infection. It witnessed 100 million downloads within the 40 days of its release. (https://entrackr.com/2020/05/aarogya-setu-crosses-100-mn-download-mark/).

Clearly app development is an evergreen and vast industry. According to a research, it is estimated that revenue from mobile apps are projected to generate more than 935 million U.S dollars in 2023. So planning career in mobile app development is a wise decision. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/269025/worldwide-mobile-app-revenue-forecast/)

Before u conclude it requires a lot of technical skills and skip to next just spare your 30 seconds to read the below points on how can you become an app developer.

• Most companies prefer candidates who are graduates in computer science or any other  related degree.
• After your graduation, select a platform on which you have to work. Either android or IOs. There are other platforms like blackberry, android windows etc. but android and IOs has the highest marketing value. If you are thinking of learning both, let me clear both are completely different platform.
• After that pick up an online resource and take a specialized training on app development. Because the graduation course does not include the in depth of this industry.
• To begin your journey, start with developing simple apps that you need in your day to day life with a special idea of yours.
• And with that you are ready to apply for mobile app developer role. Keep learning and keep struggling until you land on your dream job.

2.Digital marketing

As we are in the digital era everything is becoming digitalized, so the marketing strategy. Time has gone where people had to roam around to sell a product. Marketing is the key to any successful business. Promoting works where people traffic is high. As the consumption of content on internet has increased drastically, companies started choosing social media as their channel of marketing. Nowadays every startup to big companies is advertising through online. Digital marketing is one such area where one can have a stable career.

I know you must be wondering with many questions like what is this and how does it works. In simple running adds on Facebook, Instagram, Pintrest and other social media is digital marketing. It also comes with many added benefits. This offers many other roles to choose from. I have listed a few below.

• Social media executive   –     It includes managing the brands social media, engaging with the followers, running campaigns and making followers to regular customers.
• Copy writer                       –     copywriting is a successful emerging business. Copy is a piece of content which drives people to buy a particular product.
• SEO analyst                       –      There are umpteen number of content in the internet. It is important to bring our content on top of any search engine to get people traffic and increase the brand value. Search engine optimizer job is to do the same.

It also has many other roles such as email marketing, brand managing, website optimization social networking etc. that makes digital marketing as the fast growing career option.

Having said that I will tell you a secret. You can be a digital marketer irrespective of your background education. Yes you heard it correct.

• Marketing is all about converting visitors to customers. If you master attracting people to your product by catching their emotion, you can have a successful career in this field.
• If you feel you can do that and if you are creative enough, look out on the internet, if has abundant course to offer both free and paid. But I would suggest you to go for a paid course as they provide you in depth idea of this industry.
• Consume a lot of information. When you think you are ready may be you can start by helping your friend or family member business to grow by implementing your skills. Do not forget to ask for testimonials and with that build a strong portfolio. You speak when your resume has voice.

Everything looks overwhelming in the beginning. But dedication, continues learning and execution of what you have learnt will take you to the success zone. 

3. Cyber security officer

Managing an organization always involves the threat of losing data by unauthorized users. Especially in times of working remotely and working with employee own system and less secured Wi-Fi, the chances of getting attacked by malware is very high. To avoid all these, every organization are making digital security as their number one priority. So the demand for a cyber-security officer is increasing with the time.

According to job outlook report, demand for cyber security officer is projected to grow 28% between 2016 and 2026. ( https://www.cybrary.it/blog/0p3n/employers-industry-and-you-2019-cyber-security-job-outlook)

A security officer has to hold the responsibility of protecting the entire organization data; they should constantly look up for strengthening the defense system of the company’s network.

If you are one of those who has keen interest in security and ethical hacking here are some points on how to make it as your dream career.

• To start with, you should have a bachelor’s degree in computer/information engineering or any other degree which has cyber security as one of the subject.
• After graduation opt for a course and work on it. It teaches you a whole bunch of skills and knowledge required for that particular position. Certificate also adds weightage to your CV.

And with that you are ready to step into the world of cyber security. The word “cyber security” may scare you in the beginning. But to tell you, even the rocket science seems easy to those who enjoy learning it.

4. Digital content creator

India has the second largest number of internet user in the world. While more and more people are accessing the internet, there is a high demand for content. People slowly acknowledging that we can have a career in social media and can make money to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Digital content can be in any form blog, news, image, video, audio, email etc. Career in digital stream can be in two forms. Working for others and working for ourselves. For both building a community is the foundation. Let me explain each one to give you a better understanding.

• Working for others  –  As I already mentioned marketing is being digitalizing. In that due process brand/companies collaborate with content creator who has a good reach of audience to promote their business. We have seen this with you tubers and Instagram bloggers. The same works if you have a blog page.

There are influencers making lacks of money every month. Though, many people are scared to explore this area as it is very uncertain. But with building audience trust and with the constant uploading quality content this can be a great career option.

• Working for ourselves   –      in this particular category after gathering perfect audience, people launch their own products/ services related to their niches and built it as a brand. To explain this, fashion influencers launch their own clothing line, beauty influencers launch their cosmetic. It has become a trend these days and boosts the growth of entrepreneurship.

   Likewise launching online courses. As everything, learning online is the new thing people are embracing as it is convenient and flexible to learn from our comfort zone. Most graduate prefer taking online courses on their interest before they step into their career path. Online course help people who believe learning is a never ending journey.

So coming to the important point, how can you become a digital content creator, answer to this is very simple. If you have a good command on communication and you are confident to expose your talent in the digital world u can dive into the digital world. And as I said in this, building a community is important. It is a slow process and takes a lot of your patience and hard work.

5. UI/UX designer

According to news report, currently there are over 50 crore Indians are using smartphones. We have to notice here people with every age are having smartphone. It might get difficult for our previous generation to adapt to new technologies. So apps and services are to be designed so that every person can use that without any hustle. People retrieve from anything that has too many steps or that makes us to open user manual to operate.

If you are someone who has keen interest in graphics and design then here is a way where you can make a full blown career out of it. With this you can help people make their digital transaction smooth.

UI designer designs the user interaction side of computer, mobile and any other electronic device as simple and as efficient as possible, without compromising the aesthetic appeal of the design. On the other hand UX is all about understanding, finding solution and bring out what best for user to make their interaction hustle free.

Unlike a decade ago, the demand for UI/UX designer has increased a lot these days. It is purely because increasing in the number of users.

Here again am helping on how you can land on these jobs.

• There are very few institutes in India that offers UI/UX design course. But it has not made compulsory ta have a degree in getting a job.
• You have to have the knowledge in designing software such as adobe Photoshop, Figma, InDesign etc.
• Addition to this having proficiency in programming languages like HTML, CSS and a little bit of Java script will take you one step closer to become UI/UX designer.

Change is inevitable and every change leaves behind new opportunities to adapt for. Like the covid 19. It caused huge unemployment at the same time there are numerous opportunities are also unfolding. Choosing the right career is not a cake walk for everyone. And it isn’t easy if we don’t have the desired skills. Consistence learning and keeping up to date with the emerging technology will make the job searching game easy.