The Making of an Indian IT Professional ...2

After 4 years of engineering and with few computer diplomas under his belt, our young engineer is ready to take on the world ...at least the world was ready to take him.. the dire shortage of IT professionals anybody who could spell IT landed himself in a plum IT job. Having secured the job, dream of 4 years now achieved, the spark of Indian middle class soon realizes that all his dream about high end technical work, flying every week to different nooks and corners of the world are still ...a dream.. The work he encounters is not all that state of art. He has been asked to maintain some legacy crap or he is part of a large team where he is asked to cut code with everything specified for him...No room for the creative juice to flow.. This was not how it was supposed to be .. He becomes rebellious ...wants out from the maintenance team, wants out from the organization.. jumps jobs...in search of that elusive complex application developed using the state of art technology ...the lucky one amongst them gets to board the flight out of the country..becomes apple of his/her father's eyes and envy of the neighborhood.. while the others continue to jump.

With the recession cloud looming overhead, reality has started knocking many doors. As the IT fever is slowly subsiding, it is probably the right time to take a hard look at what really makes an IT professional? It is just technology or there is more to it? Given the hard times what does the IT organizations look for in an IT professional? What does the fortune 1000 and other global customers expect out of an IT professional? All of these and more in my next blog..Till such time ...