COVID-19 has left a lot of people jobless, most are not receiving salaries and rest are getting a pay-cut. But there are some jobs that have been not been affected at all during this pandemic. In fact, some careers have just gotten better. 5 coolest careers post-pandemic that we must check out, Let’s begin. This list of 'cool' careers that we've created today, is based on 4 parameters.
1) The LinkedIn’s India 2020 Emerging JobsReport
2) The impact a career can have on your customer’slives.
3) A hopeful prediction about what jobs can move to India in the future, considering that working remotely is the new trend.
4) And of course, how easily you can learn them from home.
If these 4 parameters don’t make a career cool... I don’t know what will! So, let’s quickly look at the top 5 careers that you must dip your hands into to figure out if they are your jam or not.
- Career #5: Mobile Developer Now some of you thought that you are not from the Computer Science background. Relax, the fact that mass recruiters pickup graduates from Electrical or even Civil sometimes, tells you that technology belongs to nobody’s father. So the good news is, irrespective of your background, it can be learned. Now, what does Mobile Developers do? As the name suggests, they create apps for mobile phones. Since the lockdown started, you would’ve done payment at least once using GooglePay, you would’ve ordered food using Zomato or Swiggy and chances are, you are watching this video on an app. There is no denying that mobile applications are here to stay.
So why not learn it to make some money? To learn mobile development, you must have… Technical Skills and Soft Skills. For Technical Skills, start learning Flutter. There is a free Flutter course on the official Flutter website, that covers everything from installation to deployment. The second skill you must have is Soft Skills. In the software field, technology is the easiest part. What’s difficult... is communication. This is a meme that is famous in the software field. It basically represents how often, what clients ask, and what Software teams deliver is completely different. So, it’s important you learn how to communicate with both your clients and your colleagues effectively. Now, while you are acquiring these skills, here are a few things you can do to make a career out of it.
- 1) To improve your coding skills, pick up a personal project. Like an app that is as simple as a countdown timer or that plays your favorite song as an alarm. Next, to earn money from your newly learned skills, reach out to your network. I’m sure you have at least one friend in your circle who is building a start-up. Offer to create an app for them. To give you an example…A friend of mine decided to make an app for the beauty parlor that she used to visit and this app, later helped her land a job in Google. And finally, use all this experience to apply to your dream company or start-up, who will welcome you with open arms. Because, thanks to COVID, all companies have realized that it is better to be an app on their user’s phone than to be on a billboard. So, learn how to code.
- Career #4: UI/UX Designer These days, it’s all about the user experience. And a UI/UX designer is responsible for it. UI means User Interface. What button goes where what features get listed, what is center-aligned, font, colors, cross-platform compatibility on phone or laptop. Basically, they deal with looks. A UX designer on the other hand focuses on user experience. How users react to the product, how things work. Now, the tools you need to learn for this job are… Adobe XD or Figma It helps to know languages like HTML, CSS, and a little JavaScript. And skills like. User Research and Customer Analysis. They bring our attention to designs around us that we often miss noticing. And that’s the point. A good design should just blend with our existing world. If a user needs to open a manual to operate a product or run an app.. then the UX designer of that team has failed. And that’s how important this career is. Now, while you are learning these tools, here is what you can do to get your foot in the door.
- Think about how you would re-design apps/websites that you already use. Like Twitter, SwiggyPut all of Your work on ‘Dribbble’. Having a portfolio is important because people want to check out your work first before they give you a job. After that, list yourself on Fiverr or TapChief. These tiny projects help you build a portfolio that you can later use to apply to better jobs. I’ll tell you why UI/UX designer is on this list. During the lockdown, a lot of 40-50-year-old’ shave been trying to go digital. People like your parents. But remember, these are people who don like technology.. and that might be because of... ..Bad UI/UX. But if you become a UI/UX designer, then you have the opportunity to make their transition to technology better. And that’s what makes this profession so cool.
- Career #3: Digital Marketing Specialist According to the World Economic Forum… by 2030, about 40% of all purchases will be online. A process that the lockdown would only accelerate. And that’s where Digital Marketing Specialists come in. In simple terms, a Digital Marketing Specialist promotes and sells a product using various digital channels, like… Email Marketing, Company Website, Blogs, SocialMedia Ads, Search Engine Optimization. A few skills to have in your bag to become Digital Marketing specialists are… Knowing Google Analytics, FB Analytics, InstagramAnalytics to understand your audience. Improving Search Engine Ranking (through SEO and SEM). Understanding how engaging content is created, through content Marketing. Making amazing videos that talk about a brand. And of course, how to engage with your audience regularly. Now, what to do after you have learned these skills? See, Covid-19 has made people forcefully shift to digital transactions. But this digital shift is not so easy for businesses. So, as a new Digital Marketing Specialist, you can first help your local businesses get online. Start with the businesses you know or use.
- A lot of professionals who are well-settled, want to make drastic shifts in their careers to photography or Travel, or Fitness and follow their heart. I’m sure you know at least one of them. So, help them build an online presence.
- You can even help Doctors get online. What do you do when somebody recommends you a doctor? You google about them. These days it’s important for doctors to appear on search results and have a place where people can see reviews that their patients gave them. Through this profession, you are not only helping yourself but also directly contributing to the Indian economy.
- Career #2: Data Scientist Data Scientists are people who understand trends. All this time that you are spending online.. somebody is collecting that data… from your smartphones, social media posts, even emails. They take all this unstructured data, make sense of it… and store it. So that other people like Digital MarketingSpecialists, UI/UX designers, App Developers can use that data to ‘improve’ customer experience. Some skills you need to learn to become a data Scientist are. If you are already a programmer, Data Science is one of those skills that you can add to your resume to increase your salary. And because now, we are more online than offline, companies have so much data… and they are looking for skilled data scientists to make sense of it. Be it Amazon, Netflix, Apple, or Google. To learn and start applying. Remember, pandemic or not… businesses will always run. And because of COVID-19, working remotely has become a trend.. which means some high-paying jobs from around the world, might shift to India. The question is.. will you be prepared for it? The only way to ‘Power Ahead’ in life, is to keep learning. And one of the ways you can learn is through Great Learning.
- Career #1: Educational Content Writer. Now, why is this Because these days our memory is like a goldfish and our attention span is… Basically, our attention span is less than 10 seconds. And it takes immense hard work to write an educational script. So, the job of an Educational Content Writer is to make complicated topics simple and interesting. And the only way to learn it is by practice. Skills you must get under your belt to become an Educational content writer.
- if you want to know how to use all these skills and make money online… The problem with today’s companies is that they give you a job only when you have experience. But to get the experience you need a job. The only way to break this deadlock is to work for your friends and family. No matter the profession you pick, broadcast in every Whatsapp group that you are ready to work for free. Everybody needs skills that we have discussed today… Managers need to prepare PPTs, Startups need to design landing pages, Influencers need help with social media, companies need help with press releases. You might find more leads in your WhatsApp groups than anywhere else. And when you are a fresher, it’s okay to work for free. Somebody trusting you enough to give you some work, itself is an opportunity. Your job is to learn from these opportunities and build a portfolio that you can later use to charge people money. And yes… all of this is hard work.
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