As the saying goes, choosing is equally important to career direction and hard work. Sometimes, choosing the right direction is more important than working hard.
This is like "men are afraid of going to the wrong bed, women are afraid of marrying the wrong man." If you choose a person who loves you, then as long as you treat him better, he will feel and give back your feelings; on the contrary, you If you choose a person who does not love you, no matter how good you are to him, he will never give you back.
The same is true for occupations. Sunrise industries and vibrant cities play an important role in personal career development. So, what is the outlook for the IT industry in 2021? Is the treatment good? Which cities have a good employment environment? With these doubts, let's let the data of the "Talent Attraction Report for the Fourth Quarter of 2020" directly hired by BOSS give you the answer.
What is the prospect of the IT industry?
Overall employment environment
According to the survey data report of BOSS direct employment, the average recruitment salary of enterprises in the fourth quarter of 2020 is 7850 yuan, which is somewhat better than that in the third quarter; recruitment demand has also increased by 9.1% year-on-year .
From the perspective of the job market, the IT and Internet industries are characterized by good salaries and high job-seekers' activity. The market prosperity index is relatively small in the first quarter, and it has rebounded significantly.
In addition, according to the report, among the top ten industries on the prosperity index in the fourth quarter of 2020, the IT/Internet industry ranks among the top three. From the perspective of the whole year of 2020 or even the past five years, the IT/Internet industry has been in the top three for a long time.
Number of talents required
From the perspective of talent supply, in the fourth quarter of 2020, first-tier and new first-tier cities, led by Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Shenzhen, have the greatest demand for talent.
Another point worth noting is that with the gradual development of first-tier cities, 15 new first-tier cities as a whole have an unprecedented increase in demand for IT talents, and the "talent war" has reached the highest level since 2017.
government policy
As the government attaches great importance to the IT industry, the "two new and one heavy" policy has been further promoted. Including the Internet, electronics/communication, transportation/logistics, medical and health industries, although they have been affected to a certain extent during the epidemic, the digitalization process of the industry is developing towards a trend of steady progress.
In summary, it can be seen that the IT/Internet industry is still one of the industries with the best job prospects nowadays.
Is the salary in the IT industry good?
From the perspective of salary treatment, the average salary of white-collar workers in the top 50 cities in demand in the fourth quarter of 2020 is 8210 yuan. Among them, the average monthly salary of recruitment in Beijing is as high as 13,138 yuan, ranking first.
Looking at various industries, the average salary in the IT/Internet industry ranked first in the fourth quarter, as high as 10107 yuan.
Not only that, the report also shows that the 15 most profitable positions in the fourth quarter of 2020 are all occupied by IT practitioners, and the average recruitment salary is as high as 29,366 yuan!
Does Xiao Bai have a chance to get a piece of the pie?
Seeing this, some students can't help asking: can we enter these high-paying IT Internet industry jobs only by becoming a "program ape"?
It's really not! Practitioners in the IT Internet industry actually cover a lot of jobs, such as development engineers, front-end engineers, UI design, algorithm engineers, data analysts, software testing engineers, and so on.
So, Xiaobai and no chance to enter the Internet industry and get a share of the pie?
Really! If you are interested in code and want to create some interesting pages and content with your own hands, then you can choose development content to learn; and if you are not interested in code, you can choose software testing, data analysis, etc. The content is studied, so as to get the opportunity to enter the big factory.
Below, we take the software testing industry as an example to introduce the development of this industry.
Software testing industry introduction
Is it true that testing is inferior to development?
Speaking of which, I have to help everyone look through the "old yellow calendar" of the test. Because most people who think that testing is inferior to development have not updated their understanding of the development of the software testing industry.
More than 10 years ago, many domestic software companies generally had the phenomenon of "emphasizing development and neglecting testing". Moreover, many Internet and software companies do not have software testing posts at all. Launching is purely based on development and non-professional internal testing, which causes frequent quality problems after software products go on the market.
Now, the status of software testing is quite different. As the software industry matures, the sense of user experience and software security have attracted more and more attention from the society, and the importance of software testing by major companies has increased significantly. According to statistics, the current shortage of software testing talents is more than 300,000, and IT industry giants at home and abroad are stepping up their competition for software testing talents.
In the past 2020, everyone has felt the depression of the general environment, and various industries have responded to the crisis by reducing the number of recruits, major layoffs, and "national sales". In this unexpected crisis, only the IT Internet industry was the least affected, and the salary package was almost the same as before the epidemic.
From this, it is not difficult to find that, compared with the current situation of increasingly saturated and fierce competition among developers, the software testing industry has less competitive pressure, generous salaries and longer professional life. Even if it’s only in 2021, you don’t have to worry about the dilemma of the hero’s uselessness.
In fact, to judge whether an industry is full or not, the recruitment demand will not deceive people. Whether there is prospect for entering an industry, the development space is the fundamental. So, what are the development directions of software testers in the future? I give you a brief summary, I hope it will be helpful to you:
Strong development skills: you can turn to the development of automated testing tools and test management tools. Not only are you required to have strong development capabilities, you also need to know more about third-party testing tools, tap the needs of testers in the test group, and understand the business;
Strong business ability: Can be a test (use case, plan) design engineer. Because the company's product business is strong, demand personnel can only provide testers with demand documents, but which are the most important test points and what are the test procedures The test method can make the test path the shortest and the coverage rate is the most complete, all of which need to grasp the essence of the software business;
Achieve a test manager: Generally, if you have been in the industry for 3-5 years, you can choose to be a management, or transfer to development, demand, implementation, etc. If you choose to be the management, you can fully dig into the characteristics of everyone in the team, and maximize the abilities of each team member, so as to strive for better benefits for the testers and allocate resources so that everyone is no longer confused and sublimated. Wait for yourself.
Write at the end
For Xiaobai, the most important and fundamental point is to choose the right industry first, and to work hard to learn the corresponding skills. In contrast, if you are a fresh graduate, you can choose a wide range of occupations. When choosing a career, you only need to choose according to your own hobbies;
And if you are a professional who has worked for several years and want to enter the IT industry, then I suggest that you choose an industry with lower entry barriers, less competitive pressure, and broader career development prospects. This is for you. , Both the physical and psychological pressure will be less, and it will be easier to change careers successfully.
Finally, I wish you all find a satisfactory job during the peak employment season of the Golden Three Silver Four.
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