Employment of computer specialists is expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations as organizations continue to adopt and integrate increasingly sophisticated technologies. The phenomenal growth, which the IT industry is witnessing, has lead to it being recognized as one of the highly paid industry. The availability of skilled, qualified professionals is hardly able to meet the requirement, leaving a large gap to be filled by the Indian Technocrats. Following are the career areas in the Information Technology Industry.

Software
Offers vast range of employment opportunities in fields starting from computer operations, programming, and system analysis to system designing, system engineering and operation management.

Hardware
The key areas, which can be taken up as career, include hardware designing, research and development, assembling, manufacturing and maintenance of computer components.

Telecom
The various fields, which can be pursued as career in this industry, include voice processing units, telephone technology, wireless technology, cellular technology and satellite communication systems.

E-commerce and Web Development
The job will include consumer/buyer information and services, developing and managing Web-portals, creation of Internet market, customer management, consulting etc.

Enterprise Resource Planning
ERP is planning the resources of entire network of an enterprise. Various fields like purchase, production, marketing, distribution, sales, service, inventory, finance, accounts, and human resource are integrated on single software through ERP, to facilitate better co-ordination.