With more and more Multi National Companies investing in India, the craze for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) has undergone upfront boom in metropolitan and cosmopolitan townships. New companies are turning their eyes in this sector each day; with the existing companies recording rapid growth pattern at an unabated rate.

The current scenario in the Indian BPO industry has diversified its attributes in number of ways and channels, from the old and existing businesses. Even its nearest competitor, IT industry shares only a few features.

The most potent features making BPO sector distinct from other industries include:

• Reach: BPO industry has reached masses. Any college degree holder can be employed in this sector.
  
  
  
• Customers: The customers of BPO industry range from diversified arenas that include mobile companies, banks, healthcare companies, insurance companies and much more.
  
  
  
• Infrastructure: To keep people motivated against the erratic work environment, BPOs are paying very high salary packages (INR 15,000 TO 50,000) as compared to other industries. Such high salary structures are offered to individuals despite their lower educational and professional qualifications.
  
  
  
• Training: Those employed in a BPO sector undergo rigorous monitoring and training schedules which are of world class standards, and enhance the working capabilities of an under graduate or a graduate beyond distinction.
  
  
  
• Quality: Driven by the customers, the Indian BPO industry like the other industries has started moving into the quality certifications like COPC, ISO9002 and BS7799. It further includes the tough standards that the service providers are required to achieve on regular basis.
  
  
  
• Recruitment: Taking BPO industry on whole, the sector is recruiting best manpower at the entry level from diversified streams. Following this, the industry is putting them in a world class environment, training them at international standards and preparing them for their customers at international levels.
  
  

BPO Industry 10 Years From Now:

According to a survey done by Business Standards almost 90% staff of a well known BPO was replaced in a year's time. This proves that the retention power of BPO is very less and thus the industry is recruiting newer talents on regular basis.

Media is gaining power and making its presence felt in different sectors daily, with its increasing influence on the audience. The advent of new means of mass communication methods like television, satellite communication and internet in recent times, the spread and impact of media has undergone many folds.

 In present scenario media means:

 M - Maximize

 E - Effect

 D - Directly by

 I - Influencing

 A- Audience

With the introduction of ENG, exclusive news channels have sprouted the TV screens every now and then. Besides, entertainment, education and cartoon channels have invariably increased the requirement of the man power in this industry to substantial amount.

Many of passionate youngsters who’d like to grow and do something to prove themselves are gorging in the field of media. With the opening of many colleges and institutes providing courses in print and electronic media, many trained professionals are making a steadfast change in this area of activity. Other allied fields included in media are advertising and public relations. The career in these fields too are growing at a fast pace.

We are living in an information rich atmosphere, wherein, news happens every second, and hence the role of media comes in. The job scope in media is tremendous as compared to other industries. No matter which segment of media one wants to opt for, there is a lot stored provided you have extempore creative skills to exhibit.

Tourism is an export oriented service sector, which has the potential to create employment opportunities, particularly for unskilled and semi-skilled workers. The industry houses tremendous prospects for growth; given the benefit that Mother Nature has endowment upon India, offering rich landscape in the form of biodiversity, forests, rivers, mountains, monuments and culture.

The realm of tourism transcends boundaries and nations. Talking of Indian perspective, globalization has further served an impetus to tourism industry with a phenomenal rise of foreign tourists. According to survey conducted by Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India, the foreign tourists visited in India during the year 2004 were 3 million, which means a huge amount of foreign exchange plus employment to number of people.

The must haves for candidates interested in this field are:

• Good communication skills
  
  
• Aptitude for figure work
  
  
• Awareness of people, places and areas of interest
  
  
• Organizing Ability
  
  
• Aptitude for languages
  

Not just the tourism is expected to grow at an amazing pace creating a lot of job opportunities than ever before. Seeking the present scenario of the Indian professional of investing more than their ancestors the Travel and Tourism Industry is surely going to rise by many folds in near future.

In today’s world of globalization, no country can survive in isolation. The interdependence between the countries drives each economy towards perpetual growth. Taking the purview of Indian market scenario, last few decades have witnessed a rapid growth in the Indian imports/exports segment as compared to the GDP growth. The key responsible factor has been the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).

Besides, it is positive result of globalization there has been generation of many job opportunities in the field of imports/exports, and thereby recording an increase in the demand of manpower for filling various job positions.

As on August 31, 2004 the government spelt out a bold vision to double India's share in world trade within five years, together focusing on the generation of additional employment in the process. The current trade figures indicate that India is not only on the right path but approaching the goal at an accelerated pace.

Out of many objectives kept under the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP), one of the major objectives was to provide a thrust to employment generation particularly in semi-urban and rural areas. FTP announced special focus initiatives in the employment intensive areas of agriculture, handicrafts, handlooms, gems and jewelry, besides leather and footwear industry.

The employment generation has been encouraging not only in these sectors, but in other sectors too as well. A study commissioned by the Ministry reveals that exports generated an incremental direct employment of almost a million jobs in the year 2004-05. The total employment generated during the year corresponding to export activity valued at US$ 78 billion was 100 million jobs – 86 million direct employments, and 14 million indirect employments in the logistics, transport and allied sectors.

The study further reveals that if we able to achieve our target of US$ 150 million over the next four years, we shall be adding further 10 million jobs i.e. 85 percent direct employment and 15 percent indirectly associated jobs.

The word Pharmacy has been derived from the Greek word "pharmakon", meaning drug. Pharmacy, since time immemorial, was considered as an allied branch of healthcare service. But, today the discipline of pharmacy has made enormous progress and has matured as a distinct and independent branch mainly through the acquisition of the wealth of knowledge, research and a vast array of drugs and therapeutic remedies.

About two decades back, the degree holders in pharmacy industry were meager. But the times have changed, and there are about 300 pharmacy colleges providing degrees like B.Pharma/M. Pharma/PhD and almost 35,000 pharmacists coming from diversified arenas such as Bio-Tech, Bio Informatics and IT.

Today, the pharmaceutical industry is playing a crucial role in building country's human capital. In India, it is amongst the top science-based industry with wide range of capabilities in the complex field of drug technology and manufacture. Industry's crucial role in economy building is evident in the form of improvement in life expectancy of an individual which has risen from 41.32 years in the sixties to 61 years. With increased availability of medicine and healthcare facilities the mortality rate has come down considerably.

The value of Pharmaceutical Industry is growing from strength to strength and as per an Ernst & Young report last year, the value of the international Pharma market was estimated at $4.5 billion, with India occupying fifth position in the world under bulk drugs manufacture category.

Golden opportunities galore for qualified Pharmacy professionals in various countries including the U.S.A. and Canada; European untries like U.K., France and Germany; African Countries like South Africa and Nigeria; Gulf Countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait; South East Asian Countries like Singapore, Korea, Japan, etc. and the Australian Continent including New Zealand.

In times to come, there is no looking back for the Pharmacy professionals, who have an effective podium before them in the arena of medicine research and other allied areas of pharmacy development.

Over the span of 16 years the increase in the use of mobile phones has been phenomenal, from 11 million users in 1990 to 500 million users at present. This number has been on continuous increase with many trendy mobile phone sets scintillating the showrooms in downtown market places.

As per the reports of Mr. Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary General, International Telecommunication Union, the number of mobile users is increasing day by day at a faster pace of 250,000 users per day all over the world.

Ranked sixth among the world's telecom sectors, with US$93.2 million telephone subscriptions by the fiscal year 2004, Indian telecom is rated as the fastest growing industry taking competitive edge over happening mobile companies.

The Indian telecommunication industry, therefore, offers an ideal setting for hiring human resources. The rise in demand for telecom services in India is not restricted only to the basic telephony services. It has rather expanded its horizon to cellular, radio paging, value-added services, Internet and Global Mobile Communication by Satellite Services (GMPCS) in the country.

The requisites to get into the industry include:

• Computer Programming
  
  
• Software Design
  
  
• Cellular Technology
  
  
• Data Compression Skills
  
  
• Business Knowledge
  
  
• Interpersonal Communication Skills
  
  
• Sales ability with knowledge of telecommunications terminology
  
  

The sector is not just restricted for engineers, but people from various other fields like Public Relations, Product Management and Customer Support are also required in it. This will be good news for job seekers who’d surely like to try their fortune and grow with most lucrative sector.

Real estate is a money churning industry where individual performers earn handsome money. It is simply a game of money. On the other hand it is also a potent ground and a biggest job provider both to the skilled and unskilled labor.

However, with the changing market dynamics, the job potential in real estate is not just confined to construction or civil engineering. The growth of organized building industry, especially housing and urban development has spanned plethora of opportunities and the benefits are reaped by all the professionals.

Now the tastes of people are changing and they are becoming more and more aware about the design and space deployment. This has resulted in an impending demand over the shoulders of architects to design and structure the interior and exterior décors of their apartments and villas.

Allied services like landscaping, plumbing and electrical installations have also been benefited from this unprecedented boom. Town planners are of the opinion that economic growth of 8% can push real estate and infrastructure growth by 20 percent.

Just like Information Technology sector, today real estate has also become a profitable proposition, witnessing a huge growth in a short span of time and still going strong. Research shows, that currently, the Indian real estate industry is valued at US$50 billion, and this is expected to grow at the rate of 25 percent on an annual basis.

Graduates in the real estate industry are being employed as asset managers, project managers and entrepreneurs. The percentage of respondents pursuing entrepreneurial activities is also fairly high.

With India offering enormous usable space, there is a scope for unabated growth in real estate industry for every type of individual profile, namely, accountants, architects, interior designers, planners, lawyers, and much more.