Recently, news about Ali's layoffs has been flying across major online platforms. It is said that Ali laid off employees and designed multiple sectors and multiple groups, and a total of 25,000 people will be optimized. Among them, Taobao and Tmall have laid off 25% of their employees; Alibaba Cloud has laid off 7% of their employees and so on.
Subsequently, Alibaba Cloud quickly responded to the layoffs, saying that it was just "normal organizational positions and personnel optimization."
Every time I see the information about the layoffs of leading companies, it always makes people feel a chill.
Amazon: About 18,000 layoffs
Tech giant Amazon has announced layoffs of 18,000 people, or 5% of its workforce. Only in November 2022, it announced a layoff plan of 10,000 people, and in January 2023, the number of layoffs increased to 18,000;
The wave of layoffs has gradually spread to the consulting industry. On March 23, the global IT outsourcing service and consulting giant Accenture announced that it will lay off 19,000 employees in the next 18 months, accounting for about 2.5% of its total employees;
Intel has laid off employees again, and it is said that employees in CPU, AI and other departments are affected;
A while ago, OPPO disbanded its self-developed chip team, and more than 3,000 IT personnel lost their jobs on the spot.
Looking at the overwhelming layoff information on the Internet, do you, as a worker, tremble, but you find that the layoffs are generally Internet companies.
As the IT industry is gradually integrated with other industries, there is a huge demand for personnel. All industries are IT-oriented, networked, and informatized. New infrastructure, 5G communications, digital economy, intelligent manufacturing, and industrial Internet are on the rise. This means that as long as you master IT technology, the scope of employment is not only in the IT Internet industry.
Most of the layoffs are in the Internet industry, but IT talents from all walks of life are needed, so why is there still a huge gap in the market despite a large number of layoffs.
At the same time, from the perspective of employment expectations, in addition to state-owned enterprises, college graduates are most looking forward to entering the IT/communication/Internet industry and other industries. From the perspective of majors, engineering graduates have the largest proportion of offers (56.9%)
When it comes to the reasons for working in the IT industry, the most common answer is probably the high salary.
Judging from the average salary in 2022 released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the information transmission, software and information technology service industries rank first in the average annual salary of employees.
High salary, this is a very important reason, but not the only reason. In addition to high salary, the following reasons are also important factors that attract practitioners to enter the industry.
01 Employment Prospects
The demand for talents in the IT industry is high
With the gradual entry into the digital society, the demand for talents in the IT industry is also expanding year by year. According to domestic authoritative statistics, in the next few years, the total demand for information talents in my country will reach 15 million to 20 million.
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Correspondingly, the salaries and benefits of IT practitioners are also rising.
Taking software development as an example, in today's information technology era, the demand for software talents is increasing proportionally, but there is a huge gap in high-quality software development talents, so the software development industry has become a veritable high-paying industry with 1-3 years Software engineers with development experience generally have an annual salary of more than 100,000.
There are countless jobs in the IT industry, such as front-end development engineers and back-end development engineers. For those who are new to the industry, these positions are very suitable for them. The salary is about 10k-20k (depending on the size of the company, the salary increase is also different) .
Those who have been in the industry for several years with strong technical ability are generally framers, intermediate software development engineers, etc., and their salaries range from about 15-30k.
02 The industry is inclusive
There is no absolute fairness in the workplace, but IT is indeed fairer than other industries. In the IT industry, the key point is whether you can make a product and write the source code. Technical ability determines your salary status.
The learning threshold of technology in the IT industry is also relatively low. No matter whether you have a foundation in this area before, or whether you are 20 or 30 years old, if you are willing to spend time learning, you may be able to master a development language in less than half a year. In terms of skills, the demand for talents in the market also pays more attention to the level of talents' skills and ability to solve problems. Compared with other industries, the IT industry places more emphasis on abilities, followed by academic qualifications.
03 Older and more popular
Many people say that the career scope of IT engineers is narrow, and 35 years old is a threshold. In fact, this is a big misunderstanding.
IT engineers are general-purpose talents. They are not restricted by region, industry, and development. They can be programmers in traditional industries or in the
Internet industry. Moreover, they are not affected by age and physical strength. The richer the experience, the better valuable.
The IT industry has many opportunities to learn new knowledge, not only IT technical knowledge, but also operations, products and other related fields, which is also very helpful for future career planning.
04 Irreplaceable
IT practitioners have very strong project awareness and professionalism, such as IT development engineers, project managers, etc., all require very professional technical knowledge and experience, otherwise they will not be competent for the job.
First of all, the ability to understand the code language is the basis for software development, and the operation mode of the machine cannot understand the behavior mode of human beings, so it
cannot replace the skills of developers in writing software codes.
Secondly, user needs, analyze user pain points and solve them in time. Such interactions not only require technical knowledge that machines can handle, but also human dimensions such as communication skills, IQ, and EQ.
Finally, the innovative thinking ability possessed by IT professionals is also one of the necessary means to resist artificial intelligence attacks.
If you are taking the technical route and are popular and expert, then you must be irreplaceable.
Are you tempted to see these advantages of employment in the IT industry?
Compared with layoffs, practitioners who enter the IT field every year are far from being able to meet the huge talent gap, and this short-supply situation will continue to exist in the short term, so why do people continue to enter the IT industry.
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