Hello Students
If you are one of the thousands of young Indians looking for a high paying job but unable to find one, you might just be looking at the wrong place. While the traditional job sector in India is experiencing a serious slow down, India’s digital economy is growing at a fast pace giving rise to lakhs of high paying jobs that young professionals and students can join to earn high salary.
However, these new-age jobs are skill based and therefore one needs to pursue short-term courses that can help them develop the necessary skills. Below, we have discussed 9 such short-term courses that can help you develop skills necessary to not only get a respectable job in India’s digital economy but also give you a high salary of over Rs 40000 per month.
1. Ethical Hacking Course
While hacking is a word that most of people would like to stay away from, Ethical Hacking might be something that interests you. If you are a cyber geek and have effective hacking skills, you can put them to some work and earn money at the same time. Ethical hackers are basically an army of keyword warriors who keep the internet safe and protect confidential information of people, companies and even governments. There are many Information Technology Institutes that offer excellent short-term courses in Ethical Hacking including Certified Security Analyst, Certified Forensic Investigator, Diploma in IT Security & Hacking. Even IITs have realized the potential of Ethical hacking as an excellent professional career choice.
Eligibility: Bachelor's degree in IT or Computer Science
Skills Required: Excellent Code Cracking Skills
Expected Salary: Rs 40,000 to Rs 60,000
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and is one of the most crucial job profiles when it comes to India’s digital economy. SEO Professionals work to enhance the visibility of a website in the search engine results. Simply put, it is their responsibility to ensure that their client’s website appears in the top search results in Google. The best part about being an SEO professional in today’s world is that you can choose to either work as part of an established organization or also pick up projects directly from clients on freelance basis. As far as the courses are concerned; many new institutes who train SEO professionals in the art of Search Engine Optimization have come up in all major cities across the country.
Eligibility: Bachelor’s Degree
Skills Required: Basic knowledge of Computers and Internet
Expected Salary: Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000
Another job profile that is in high demand as far as digital marketing is concerned is PPC or Pay Per Click Campaigns. While not so popular among the main stream academics, PPC professionals are one of the most sought after resources in the market today. Their prime responsibilities include driving sales and traffic from the search engines via paid advertising through Google Adwords, Bing and Facebook for Business. With almost every brand going online and spending a significant amount of marketing budget for online advertising, PPC is surely something that should be on radar of students as a job-oriented short-term course that can provide instant results and good salary packages.
Eligibility: Graduation
Skills Required: Basic computer skills, internet
Expected Salary: Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 or depending upon the project
If you are someone who is good at presentation of ideas and concepts in visual form, graphic designing courses are something that you should consider very seriously. Graphic designers are basically the people behind the mesmerizing image your see in magazines or social media or the infographics that are available on Pinterest or in newspapers. So, there is no dearth of work as far as a highly skilled graphic designers are concerned. A short term graphic designing certification course of 3-4 months covers the basic softwares such as Photoshop, Coral Draw and Indesign. You can also opt to go for advance courses in the field. As for the career opportunities are concerned you can be hired as a Creative Director, Logo Designer, Visual Image Developer, Interface Designer, Art Production Manager in any company.
Eligibility: Graduation
Skills Required: Creativity, Basic Computer Skills
Expected Salary: Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000
The rise of India’s digital economy has also translated into development of new and innovative job profiles for young professionals that were not available before. In today’s world, everyone wants to expand their presence and reach on the internet and therefore everyone is looking for a website. Here’s where web designing professionals come! A short team web-designing course which lasts about 3 to 6 months can equip you with skills required to develop a responsive and engaging website for your client. The best part about pursuing a web-designing course is that, endless rewarding opportunities await you at the end of it, be it launching your own business, working on freelance basis or joining an already established firm as a web-designer on a respectable package.
Eligibility: Graduation
Skills Required: Computer Savvy, Aptitude and Logical Mind
Expected Salary: Rs 20,000 to 50,000
As the name suggests, the voice modulation courses are ones which are aimed at people who want to turn their voice into their biggest resource. Offered by a number of private institutes, some of which are well recognized, Voice Modulation Courses can help you turn a singer, theatre artist or the best of all voice-over-artist. Be it advertising, films, radio or television; the demand for artists who can modulate their voice to fit the character is rising by the day. And lack of awareness about this job in the market means very less competition. So, if you like making funny sounds or just love to hear yourself, do consider voice modulation courses.
Eligibility: Graduate in Mass Comm / Class 12th Pass
Expected Salary: Rs 25,000 to Rs 40,000 depending upon the project,
If you loved cartons as a child or even as an adult, than Animation Courses is something that should definitely interest you. Often termed as one of the most promising career options available today, Animation Courses give the edge to exhibit your creativity in a visual form. The demand for Animation professionals is increasing day by day, especially in the domains such as advertising companies, carton industry, cinema industry and other digital industry domains. A short-term animation course which can be pursued along with your college studies can give you basic knowledge of 2D and 3D animation skills in no time.
Eligibility: Graduation
Skills Required: Creativity, Story Boarding, Basic Computer Knowledge
Expected Salary: Rs 25,000 onwards
Writing has always been deemed as a profession of intellectuals; but the landscape of writing in terms as well as the type and style of content has changed dramatically in the last decade. Today, there is a huge demand of professionals content writers who specialize in different genres or platform specific writing. So, today you would find jobs that are specially targeted for marketing content, SEO content, Viral Content, Video Script Writing and many more.
If you are looking forward to building a lucrative career in writing, this is the best time to do so! All you need is basic knowledge of English and a creative bent of mind to be a successful content writer. To help you along your way, you can also join the specific content writing courses that will train you in different genres and give you all the tips and tricks of the trade to write amazingly engaging content that you and your audiences love.
Eligibility: Undergraduates / Graduates
Skills Required: Basic knowledge of English language, Creative mind
Expected Salary: Rs 15,000 to Rs 40,000
Softwares and applications have become an integral part of our lives, be it in office, at home or anywhere in between. So, it doesn’t really come as a surprise that demand for software engineers in India’s digital economy is also on the rise. If you also want to join the ranks of young professionals developing innovative softwares and applications, you might want to consider a programme language courses.
There are numerous institutes offering credible short-term courses in Software development and programming. You can pick any programming language which you are comfortable with like ASP. Net, java, C, C++, python or any other; and soon you would be able to get a high paying job easily.
Eligibility: Graduation in Information Technology / Computer Science
Skills Required: Coding
With the rise in the number of computers, mobile phone and other digital gadgets, the demand for networking professionals who can manage the internet connectivity for these devices is increasing by the day. Right from tech-giants such as HCL and HP to even small start-ups that are just staring out in the digital world; all need networking professionals to manage their digital setup.
So, doing a short-term three-month course in networking would surely be a lucrative opportunity for the students. Some of the popular choices as far as networking courses are concerned include CISCO networking courses or you can learn Python, Pearl, and Ruby (scripting language), Certificate PC Hardware & Networking, Certificate in Network Administration or Diploma in Computer Application & Network Administration. Similarly network security is another emerging field in which professional job-oriented course can work wonders for you.
Eligibility: Graduation
Skills Required: Computer Savvy, Aptitude and Logical Mind
Expected Salary: Rs 40,000 to 50,000