Who should choose Information and Communication Technology(ICT) as career

Friends, This post is going to be very helpful for you guys,  if you are on a stage where you want to decide which career is suitable for you. Most of the people will tell you that this field is good, this is bad , that is good, this career got a nice future, you should not choose that branch...and suddenly you feel crowded by suggestions of the people around you.

I got a nice idea for you people and that is make a plan and that is

-- Try to know the field, i mean what kind of job you gonna get, what is usual work environment of that field, yeah it may vary company to company.search over the internet. ask the people working in that field.

--Try to know yourself. This is more important than anything else. If you know exactly what sort of abilities you have, you can utilize it.what sort of work you like? do you enjoy traveling? what are the personality traits you have and do they suit that field you are going to opt.

The best career advice i can give you is:
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.


In this post i'm going to explain the who should choose information and communication technology(ICT) as career.My previous post related to ICT field may have given you the idea of the field.


These are few reasons to choose ICT field

• Good job opportunities
• Demand across the world
• Higher economic benefits
• Different career development paths
• Traveling opportunities to other countries

If you are really good at what you do, you'll have the demand across the globe.
There are many paths you can consider

• Software Engineering
• Network Engineering
• System security
• Project Management
• Quality assurance and Testing
• System administration
• Website development
• Database administration
• Technical support
• Client management
• IT consultancy

"Studies show that people flourish in their work environment when there is a good fit between their personality type and the characteristics of the environment. Lack of congruence between personality and environment leads to dissatisfaction, unstable career paths, and lowered performance."(Holland, 1996, p. 397).

Personality traits of ICT professionals

Studies shows that ICT professionals score higher on following personlity traits than professionals of other fields:

• Emotional Resilience
• Openness
• Tough-Mindedness
• Customer Service

According to studies ICT career satisfaction was also positively related to Extraversion,

Agreeableness/Teamwork, Assertiveness, Optimism, Tough-Mindedness, Work Drive, and Visionary Style.

You can choose various career path according to skills you have in ICT.If you are good at communication and planning you can become analyst or consultant. If you think you are very creative you can become developer, designer, architect.

If you want to go for a career in ICT and thinking of doing programming, developing software and become a good software engineer you need to have following skills

• Basic Logical skills
• Attention to details
• Ability to read specifications
• Ability to test
• Patience
• Perseverance

along with above skills you must have the following two skills and these are

• Creativity

You may be asked to create novel solutions for the problem.If you are creative you can create better softwares with great user experience.You will not get stuck and find out the appropriate solutions for the given problem.

• Change

The concepts, methods and applications involved in ICT are constantly evolving on an almost daily basis. Its difficult to keep up with the changes - they happen so fast. You may need to learn new skills, learn new programming languages.You may need to need to develop softwares using recently released technology.If you can adapt to the changes in technology and able to learn new skills, ICT is a right career for you.

Whatever career you choose, make sure you love doing it. When you start loving what you do, you can give more than 100%.You can do a lot of hard work and that hard work will not be as hard to you because you love it.

I think you should not choose a career in which you need to adapt too much, because if you change yourself too much; you will lose your essence.

I have a great interest in information and communication technology and i think it interests you too.

well whatever career you choose the best advise is(i am stating it again)

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

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