Career counsellor
2010 will be quite happening for job seekers. Those opting for traditional career streams such as engineering, medicine and law will be in demand. Some of the hot jobs of the year will be.
Entertainment Industry / Media
Media and communication industry offers qualified professionals exciting and lucrative career opportunities.Television channels are multiplying. FM radio is back in the race. The field of event management is vast and unexplored. These trends are translating themselves into attractive and well paying jobs. You can seek employment as a copywriter, multimedia specialist and visualiser.
Education
Apart from teachers and lecturers, there are many other avenues closely connected with the education industry. These include career options as counsellors, teaching assistants, education administrators, librarians, childcare workers, public relations specialists, social workers, coaches and umpires.
Tourism
As per the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), India has potential of earning US $ 24bn through tourism by 2015. India has emerged as the fastest growing tourism hub, with 8.8% annual growth rate, while the global tourism is growing at about 5% annually. Some of the new careers aretourism promotion, sales and transport organisation.
Healthcare
Gone are the days when the healthcare industry was limited only to treating ailments and diseases in government hospitals. Healthcare has stretched its arms into private, specialty and even corporate hospitals. Moreover today people are more cost and quality conscious, making this industry a large provider of employment. Careers in occupational therapy, nutrition, clinical therapy and nuclear medicine are all potential careers.
Art & Design
A vast field, it encompasses not only fashion designing and jewellery designing but several other facets such as furniture design, graphic designing, architecture and relatively unexplored streams such as toy designing, which are in great demand.—PranavGandhi, COO, Young Buzz India Ltd
Real estate
Affordable housing holds the key
The year 2009 was a threshold year for the sector. The whole industry showed courage and stood by each other during downfall. Even the stimulus packages by the government helped us to survive. The global meltdown made us think of innovative ideas like affordable housing, which was helped by the State Bank of India with the 8% home loan scheme. More private builders are now venturing into it.
All indicators are positive, so it should be a good year for real estate. We hope there aren’t any sudden shocks in the Indian or international markets. But developers should keep in mind that increasing prices won’t help them to sustain the growth. Real estate is the largest source of employment. So if the industry does well, so will the employment scene. Even pay hike has been initiated for the skilled labourers. The government shouldn’t disregard the sector and should help with the stimulus package for at least eight months from now.
—Sunil Datwani. president, Lok Housing
Media marketing
Social networking will boom further
In the coming year, cellular networks will gain in social networking. People will start using mobile phones extensively for social networking needs. Fall in rates, tough competition between mobile service providers and anticipated 3G spectrum will fuel this growth. There will be an explosion of interest-basedgroups - feng shui lovers, animal activists or bibliophiles will all come together. With the proliferation of mobile networks, more people will be accessing the ancillary services.
Till now, mobiles are known for ‘coolness quotient’, they will move to the realm of utility. More celebrities will start engaging with their fans online. They will use the mobile for promoting causes close to their heart and not only movies. From a business perspective, it would become micro-targeting, mass-personalisation and interest based profiling of users. Hence demographic profiling of users would be passe. Facebook and Twitter will stagnate and the next big thing will be foursquare.com.
—Moksh Juneja, social media marketing consultant, Avignyata Inc.
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