Arnab Chatterjee

No training you take guarantees a job for you. Getting a job depends a lot on your ability to market yourself to a recruiting company. As you are yourself a recruiter you can probably relate to how organizations recruit professionals. Have an in-depth look into the recruitments you have done for your company and try to understand the skills and knowledge that are required. You can get in touch with your own company to understand their requirements and get an appropriate training in a related field so that you can place yourself as a candidate in your own organization.

You need to be very good with accounting, taxation and financial management papers. You can opt for B.Com as graduation with various specialisations such as computers or finance (in your case) or banking ( another good option for you). Besides you should try to get one of the professional degrees in finance like CA, ICWA (CMA) or CFA (MS-Finance). These will increase your knowledge and understanding of the subjects and also give your the required mileage qualification wise.

Salary usually depends on your experience. Even a year of experience would help you get a better salary than no experience at all. Usually you can start off as a fresher from 2-3 lacs per annum depending on the company you get selected for. Some of the big IT companies may be paying a little more than that, around 3.5 lacs per annum. It also depends on how you perform in your job interview.

You could go for IT Support and helpdesk roles, or performance testing for various products. However, the pay packages in these areas are not great and would mostly depend on the associated qualifications you have as well as the experience. However, these are good areas to start your IT career without getting too much into coding.

Hey Reetha....You mentioned that you are working in a non-IT field. Can you please explain a bit more about your experience. There are lots of areas which are suitable for people with IT academics and non-IT work ex. I personally have groomed quite a few such candidates. The reality about the IT job market is that you can get into an IT job irrespective of your academics and the various courses. I have worked with IT employees who have a non-IT background. Ultimately it depends on your own interest, expertise, how you are groomed and how you present yourself to a prospective employer. There are quite a lot of options actually. So the course which will actually help you will depend on your interest, expertise and work ex. Like everyone here have mentioned you can go for a variety of courses to get into the IT field. You can go for web designing courses, testing and automation courses or go for some business related courses such as SalesForce, SAP FICO/Sales/ABAP or Oracle DBA/Financials/Supply Change etc. Almost all of these are in high demand right now. However, before deciding on any of these you need to have a sound plan which will help you actually get established in a career of your choice. Else, if at the end of the course you do not get the desired job opportunity you would have wasted a lot of time and money.