“Who doesn’t want to make some decent amount of money nowadays?” Well, everyone wants to earn a wealthy amount of money. So, here I am going to tell you certain useful tips which shall be very well guiding you in achieving your goals no matter at which stage of life you are.
1. Project management
Project management is one short of strive that project managers do to create something unique regarding products, services or results. It needs little knowledge, soft skills, tool, and different methods to meet the project requirements.
Skills you’d be required to be project manager:
⦁ Excellent written and verbal communication
⦁ Time management
⦁ Leadership qualities
⦁ Ability to conduct cost and business analysis
⦁ Business case development
⦁ Modeling techniques and methods
Few key values which would be added benefit in the field:
⦁ Problem solver
Should come up with a solution or find a workaround if there are blocks during the project
⦁ Cultural awareness
The culturally aware project manager can avoid miscommunication and conflicts
⦁ Credibility
Prior work experience and some industry knowledge build the credibility of his/her to receive respect or rewards
⦁ Knowledge of another framework
Having knowledge of agile, program and portfolio management will be added advantage
⦁ Being an optimist
Few changes to bring new ideas and innovative during the project life cycle is the hallmark of good project manager
⦁ Digitally savvy
Staying updated with the latest project management tools that optimize the workflow
If I talk about the qualification then it is the same as the skills mentioned above, however, sometimes it also depends on industry or organizations.
Let me now talk about one of the most asked question, “how much you can earn as a project manager?” So the pay scale ranges from 6 lakh to 20 lakh per annum and there will be hourly based paying if you go for any event management, nevertheless, it will be varied depending on factors like company, location, skills, educational background, and salary negotiation skill.
2. UI/UX DESIGNER
If you have an interest in designing field and you like to work with digital products and technologies then becoming UI or UX designer will be the best job for yours.
To be a UI/UX designer is rewarding, tough, fruitful and entertaining. You will be working with a lot of software as you will build different apps and websites. It requires a combination of analytical and social or soft skills as you get work with a live group of people.
Requirements to start a career:
⦁ Reading
There are hundreds of books on UI/UX but I will suggest you read: “The design of everyday things” by Don Norman which focuses on how and why some products please customers while other frustrates them. “Smashing UX design”, “Don’t make me think”, these are some great books if you are a novice and wants to start your career in this field. You could also refer to some blogs, podcasts, and articles too.
⦁ Find a mentor
One of your greatest assets in becoming a designer will be finding a mentor.
⦁ Take a class
As you can’t expect everything from your mentor, after all, it’s all based on personal, so by taking a good design course, it will teach you important design concepts, tools, resources and allows you to practice on them.
⦁ Do some real actual work
I will suggest you do a couple of free case studies and get experience in the field which will help you to find clients for you and you can use LinkedIn to show your work(Extremely recommended) as it is a professional way to connect with business owner or clients.
Here are some websites on which you can find free design course:
⦁ Invision
⦁ Future learn
⦁ Coursera
⦁ Hackdesign
⦁ GYMNASIUM
A UI designer is paid between INR 2 lakh to 9 lakh and UX designer is paid between INR 3 lakh to 13 lakh, always keep in mind that everything comes through experience so never put yourself back.
3. Cybersecurity
Nowadays, cyber crimes have overwhelmed, so to prevent such threats from hackers industries are hiring cybersecurity professionals to avoid being hacked.
Now the question is “how to dive into this career?” For this, there are multifarious options available. You can do a bachelor’s degree, masters, or you can take an online course, or you can do a certificate-based course as well.
Names of the positions you can get are:
⦁ Security specialist
⦁ Security administrator
⦁ Cryptographer
⦁ Security manager
⦁ Security analyst
⦁ Penetration tester
A fresh entrant in this sector can get around 3 lakh to 3.5 lakh per year. A chief security officer has an average of 23.7 lakh a year and it’s up to 80 lakh.
PS: There is a vast gap between demand and supply that’s why it is a great opportunity for individuals who are interested in adopting IT sector.
4. Data analytics
Data analyst possess specialized skills which are increasingly in demand on an international level. As a data analyst, you’ll be doing mining of data using internal as well as external sources. From where it can be used to find insight, the track record to help the business objectives with finding anticipated forecasts.
Road to become a data analyst:
⦁ Earn a bachelor’s degree as most analyst jobs are required a bachelor’s degree to become a data analyst
⦁ If this is something which you are interested in then you could think of having an additional degree and so it’ll be best for your goal.
⦁ You could sign up for classes that target a specific subject
This role has high payouts and makes a good career choice. I would suggest you do training from a reputed institute which will be the right path if data role is your career choice.
Data analyst having knowledge of R can earn 10 lakh per annum compared to Python with 9 lakh per annum.
5. Web development
Web development is the art of building and maintenance of websites. You can also refer to work that happens behind the scenes to make the website look great, work fast and perform well for the best user experience. It includes a wide range of work ranges from creating plain texts to complex web applications.
It has three main sides; Front end developers and back end developers and full-stack developers. Front end developer needs to know three main languages such as HTML, CSS, and JAVASCRIPT. In addition to this developers need to be familiar with frameworks like Bootstrap 4, Foundation, Backbone and React JS. While for back ends developer languages like Ruby, Python, Java, and .Net. A full-stack developer is one who offers full package by working as both front end and back end developer, and this is the one which provides a wide range of opportunities in jobs and careers. Though to be a full-stack developer you should have known every level of website that how web works, the configuration of the server and many more.
You might be wondering how one can be a web developer, “Does it require any kind of university degree”? Well, the answer is no. There are plenty of ways from where you can teach yourself whether it is offline or online. According to the research of Stack Overflow, almost 70% of developers are partly self-taught, while 13% are extremely self-taught and less than half have a degree in computer science-related fields.
If you want to learn on your own you’d go for online courses, there are many learning platforms such as Code Academy, Udemy and Khan Academy. They are offering courses at starting from 0$ to 10$, which are the best platform for beginners.
As a web developer, your responsibility will be designing, coding and modifying websites from layout to functions according to client’s requirements.
Popular languages for Web developer:
⦁ HTML
⦁ CSS
⦁ JAVASCRIPT
⦁ PHP
⦁ JAVA
However, it depends on what kind of knowledge you possess, but the average salary for a developer have 5-7 lakh per annum. Moreover, you can do some freelancing works where you can get $1500-$2000 by working 4 hours a day and 5 days a week and if you want to earn some more you could push yourself, there is no bar for salary as they pay you based on hourly rates.
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