Useful tips for a promising career in the Indian IT Industry

IT job seekers today have an edge above the previous generation of job seekers as the IT boom in India has opened up horizons for upcoming professionals with promising careers within the industry. So, here are some tips to secure the best IT job from the team of Naukri.com, India’s number 1 job site, read on…

India with the dawn of the millennium is facing an IT explosion where the IT industry is growing leaps & bounds and expanding multi-dimensionally. Presently India has more than 3000 IT service providers and the sector is projected to grow at a rate of 35% in the year 2007. In the year 2006, the 12 largest Indian IT companies generated a revenue of 11 billion USD. This growth is not only peculiar to metros but has trickled down to tier II & tier III cities as well. Today one can witness a boom in cities like Pune, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Mysore, kochi, Vishakhapatnam and Ahmedabad.

This growth has also spawn the need for hiring more and more IT resources to sustain and drive the growth rate further. Hence, a need to hire skilled professionals has emerged among all streams of the IT sector such as: IT education & training, Computer programming, Software development, Software Engineering, Database Administrator, Network Systems & Data Communication Analysts, Technical writing, Content Development, Technical support, Hardware Design, System Administration, Web development, Quality Assurance, Call center support, Internet/Intranet development, E-commerce, Help desk/end user support.

The present situation is very meaty for any IT professional, as there are openings generating for all be it a fresher, project manager or team leader, hence, giving a job seeker several career options. But at the same time with so many IT courses available and lakhs of IT graduates entering the job market every year, competition is also getting fierce. So, for you to beat the competition and stay ahead of the crowd here are some tips from the team of Naukri.com, India’s number 1 job site.


Understand your skill set - Analyse what combination of skills and qualifications you have and then make a list of companies that would want to hire resources having a skill set similar to yours. This way you are streamlining your job hunt instead of blindly applying to all IT companies which could be completely different from your profile.

What benefit do you offer? - A company is more interested to know the benefits it can reap from a candidate’s skills. The skills mentioned in your resume should sound beneficial to the recruiter efficiency & productivity wise.

Put keywords in your resume - These days recruiters search for resumes mostly on job sites. So your resume should include terms or keywords that a recruiter would use while searching for an IT candidate. For example, JAVA, LAMP, C++, MIS, SQL, MCA, B tech. and so on. This will make your resume searchable i.e., whenever a recruiter searches for these keywords, your resume gets displayed in the search results.

Top it with a summary - Recruiters often avoid lengthy resumes and they tend to overlook important skills when they have to scan a huge pile of resumes. So, to avoid this, begin your resume with a summary of skills, where you can just mention briefly about your skill set, years of experience and number of projects you have worked on. This will hold the recruiter’s interest and provoke him to read your resume further. For example: your summary could be ‘MCA with 4 years of experience in QA & Testing’

Proofreading is a must - Check your resume thoroughly for incorrect terminologies and grammatical errors. No matter how qualified you are or how much experience you have, a small mistake in your resume can hinder you from getting a call from a company of high standards. So, proofread your resume and rectify all errors before sending it out. For example: Some people may write ‘data warehousing’ as ‘dataware housing’ or even ‘data wearhousing’… these kind of mistakes can’t be ignored, specially in the IT field. You can also seek help of your friends and seniors while proofreading your resume.

Stick to what you are actually good at - Mentioning skills in your resume which you are not well versed with may land you up in a trouble. If the interviewer asks you questions regarding these skills, then you may not be able to justify them with an answer.

Your innovations - During the interview quantify situations where you have helped your team save both in terms of time and finances by implementing some changes or a new work procedure. By talking about these incidents in an interview you will be promoting yourself as it is immensely important to market yourself during an interview.

Your accomplishments - Describe your Key Responsibility Area, the projects you have handled for the organization or during your course (mention course projects only if you are fresher), challenges faced by you and what steps did you take to overcome those challenges. But be crisp and don’t go on and on.

It’s okay if you don’t know something - If the employer asks you something you are not aware of then simply admit it, instead of pretending to know it. It’s not possible for any developer or programmer to know everything and the recruiter would surely understand if you are not trained in a particular skill.

Do your homework - Lastly, know the organization you are applying to or appearing for an interview. You must know about the industry they are into and try finding out the software and programming languages used by them. So, the interviewer will be impressed seeing your inertest in the company and would consider you as a sincere candidate.

Getting a job these days is not a big deal, but what kind of a job you are securing is what matters the most. We wish that these tips help you land in the right job with a promising and a successful career.

About Naukri.com
Naukri.com, India’s No. 1 job site and the flagship brand of Info Edge revolutionized the concept of recruitment in India. Since its inception in 1997, Naukri.com has seen exponential growth year after year. Formerly an ICICI Ventures investee company, it has attracted investments from leading venture capitalists, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures, apart from an IPO in November 2006.

Naukri.com is a recruitment platform and provides services to the corporate world, placement agencies and job seekers in India and overseas. It offers a bouquet of products like Resume Database Access, and Response Management Tools and its services include Job Postings, and Branding solutions on the site. With 80000 job listings and 10 million searchable resumes, Naukri.com serviced over 27000 corporate clients in the past year.

The company has over 1000 people operating through 57 offices in 32 cities in India and overseas offices in Dubai. For more information, log on to www.naukri.com