What is the IT industry? How's it going?

In the market economy, every industry, every enterprise and every professional is like a sine wave, moving forward in ups and downs. The amplitude of IT industry is greater, with high talents, high income, high competition and high risk. Companies in the IT industry have experienced ups and downs, and professionals in the IT industry have experienced ups and downs. Although rainbows followed the storm, they also fell in batches in the storm. Many IT people who do technology will change careers at a certain stage, some will turn to sales, some will turn to management, and some will turn to the market. Technical support for products and systems is a common transformation direction. With the continuous expansion of the depth and breadth of the IT industry, there is also a certain proportion of transformation in training and consulting. Then, as an IT person, how to face the opportunities and risks brought by career at any time, how to break through the ceiling and find a second spring in the career bottleneck?

First, look at the market and things from a technical point of view.

IT industry is a high-tech industry, which requires people who are engaged in this work to have strong thinking and logical ability. Therefore, in order to cope with competition, many people only bury their heads in research, don't look up at the road, think in a technical way of thinking, and ignore more cruelty and helplessness behind the aura. The risk is coming. I don't know how to avoid it yet. I'm still studying the formula. Some people say that if the whole IT industry is regarded as a process network, each IT staff is often just a specific operator of a node in a process in the network, and it is impossible to take charge of the overall situation from the perspective of the network.

We must look at the market and things from a technical perspective, take a holistic view and grasp the market. Not only do you need professional knowledge in IT, but you should also show some commercial sensitivity when dealing with different jobs. More consideration should be given to career continuity and the long-term value of IT personnel, so that young people can eat for a long time. Just as notebooks must be transformed from OEM (original equipment manufacturing) to ODM (original design manufacturing), the career management mode of IT personnel must also be changed.

Second, the software and hardware are constantly upgrading.

The IT industry is characterized by rapid changes in technology and rapid updating speed. Only by sailing against the current and braving the wind and waves can technical talents keep up with the technical trend. Enterprises will pay more and more attention to those compound talents who are "IT generalists". As long as you can constantly update your knowledge, you will be young, and age is not an obstacle. Although programmers over 35 years old have a certain gap with young people in their twenties in learning ability, reaction speed and work efficiency. However, due to the metabolism of knowledge, the blood in the blood vessels is fresh and still has vitality. In the IT industry abroad, veterans in their fifties and sixties abound.

Third, conquer the language fortress.

Language ability is an obstacle for most IT people at present, and many technical experts have excellent skills, that is, the language fails the test and becomes an obstacle to progress and development. In the past, most enterprises took technical background as the only important condition when recruiting technical talents, but now what they need to pay attention to is the communication ability and foreign language ability of candidates. Many IT companies put forward higher requirements for job seekers. Employees not only have corresponding computer skills and related knowledge, but also require certain foreign language skills. Foreign companies, in particular, have to report to foreign headquarters because most of their headquarters are abroad. When contacting colleagues in foreign companies, language communication is obviously placed in the first important position, and language ability has become an important indicator of comprehensive quality, which has led many candidates to fall off their jobs and miss foreign companies. Therefore, IT personnel who want to enter foreign companies, outsourcing soft companies and go abroad for employment must conquer this fortress.

Four, in addition to learning IT professional and technical knowledge, but also gradually cultivate their own management, communication and cooperation capabilities, in order to achieve the goal of gradually improving themselves. From the demand orientation of middle and high-end talents, we can see that with the rapid development of economy and software industry, the demand for talents, especially middle and high-end professionals, presents a corresponding rapid development trend, and we can see the potential and direction of software industry development. Some units urgently need middle and high-end talents such as project managers, software development supervisors and team leaders. Master some software engineering specifications and technical specifications that meet international standards, be proficient in using more than one foreign language, and have good teamwork ability, which is a necessary condition for becoming an excellent IT talent. These IT talents with comprehensive qualities such as language, technology and communication have become "hot items" in the market.

Fifth, move closer to hot jobs and scarce talents.

From the current recruitment positions, technical positions are the best, which embodies the characteristics of customer first and new technology era. Job data shows that several positions such as software engineer, senior software engineer and technical support engineer have become the key recruitment targets of IT enterprises this year, among which the demand for software engineers has been high. Software development, game animation, 3G talents and practical network talents are in great demand. The booming IT industry has brought unprecedented shortage of IT talents, and the shortage of software testing talents, especially software testing engineers, is increasing day by day. Therefore, the demand for high-level network administrators, network architecture engineers, network development and operation engineers, enterprise information managers and other related talents is particularly urgent, and they have become hot-selling "hot goods" in the workplace. Corresponding to the huge demand, the salary of network technical talents is also rising, and the "salary situation" is optimistic and the prospects are promising.

General Manager and Chief Consultant of Hongwei Career Consultant:

IT people seek development, just like climbing an ice peak, climbing up and walking hard. Every step of climbing should be watched, tested, rehearsed and climbed. If you are not careful, it will fall sharply. You must constantly upgrade your hardware and software to a new platform by constantly charging. Only in this way can we have a green light all the way, otherwise, due to the lack of learning, our software will inevitably have various loopholes, which is called "bugs." If there are too many software "bugs", it will lead to frequent "crashes" of professional computers. When the professional yellow light is on, the red light will follow. Often scan your own "bugs" and make up for them by charging, so that your software can work normally and your career will not get out of control. Finally, climb a peak of the iceberg.