What should be my next goal after having 6 years of IT Experience?

What should be my next goal after having 6 years of IT Experience?

In this rapidly changing IT industry, this Question is there in every professionals mind, what should be my goal after 5–6 years !

My advice is , in these 6 years of IT experience , what is it which you liked the best?

a. Are you good at development ? Can you quickly develop an algorithm and a program, given the requirements ? Which software tools are you good at? Are they in demand as of now ? Then my advice would be to go in for a Course in Project management, Agile or Scrum which is in demand today, get some process management and leadership training, apply for a Project manager’s position . (Start initially as a Assistant Project manager, do your study and certification alongside the job).

b. Are you good at Design, Architecture, and have good knowledge and workex of the current Object and service oriented architectures, then plan to be a good Lead software architect - it could be a migration to e-commerce from client server architecture, which will be good experience and job satisfaction for you. Here, you may or may not have a team with you. You could go in for a diploma in e-commerce.

c. Are you good at Testing, then you should go in for QA Training certificate programs which can also include actual hands on training and certification in tools like Load runner or Rational . Here you are expected to lead a Team, so you should have Leadership and soft skills training as well. You can apply for a Testing Head position with a team under you.

d. If you have done a MBA in IT , and have interest in doing business analysis and presentations and managing a Product through its life cycle, then Product Management is a good option for you, You may or may not have a team under you, but this is an excellent interface between the sales and development teams .

I could go on and on, and discuss about other areas like Information security, ERP, Sales and business development, Business process migration , Supply chain, CRM etc. but let me end here for current context.

All above positions are in great demand now and so it does not matter what you chose, the goal should be of your liking !!

Good luck !!

This article is written by Mr. Anil Oberai, C.E.O of OberaiITConsultancy, with more than 2 decades of experience in managing and Consulting for IT Projects. To know more, Pl visit  https://aniloberai.blogspot.in/