Big data is creating many career opportunities across various industries. However, there is a significant skills gap between the available qualified workers and expected demand for big data professionals through 2018. While some large companies like Amazon and Google have benefited from big data insights, many companies have not due to a lack of workers with deep analytical skills to work with big data. There is predicted to be a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 big data professionals globally by 2018.

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Devasish Misra
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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

2. Big Data - Buzz Word of “21st Century”
• Big Data analytics is the buzz word of the 21st Century. Not only has it
been “The Topic” in resent times but also is the Hot Topic of
discussion among IT & Non-IT professionals.
• Training Institutes have taken advantage of the situation and have
been offering courses without any significant knowledge in that area.
• Is Big Data a science, art, programming language, software package,
hardware, server or service?
• Is it only for Information Technology, Computer Science, MCA
students?
• Is it only for software companies?
• Does non-IT companies employ Big Data Engineers?
• What is the Job Opportunity with Big Data Knowledge VS General IT
programming Knowledge?

3.  Consulting Companies – Large MNC, Information Technology, SW
 E-commerce sites
 Media (Channels) – News, Business, Sports, Music, Portals, etc
 Retail – FMCG, White Goods, etc
 Insurance – Life and Non-Life, underwriting, actuarial, etc.
 Banking & Securities – Stock Broking, Exchanges, Retail Banking, etc
 Manufacturing – Automobile, Telecom, Airline, etc
 Research Institutes - Analyst, scientist, Bio-Technologies, etc
 Government – IoT, Politics, Urban Planning, Agricultural, Metallurgical,
Meteorological, Astronomy, Research, Healthcare, etc
 Education - Technical Institutes, Training Institutes, etc
 Healthcare Providers – Diagnostic Centres, Hospitals, Research, etc.
 Transportation, Hospitality, Utilities and Wholesale Trade
 Entertainment (Reviews) – Movies, Stars, Songs, Albums, Artist, etc
Potential Industry “Market” ?
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4. Big data is creating big career opportunities
• Still, with the exception of a few notable firms
like Amazon and Google, Michael Chui, a partner at the
McKinsey Global Institute said many companies have not
benefited as much as expected from big data's insights, in large
part because there are not enough people with the deep
analytical skills needed to mine the data.
– Because of this, Chui stands by a 2011 report from McKinsey predicting
there could be a shortage of between 140,000 and 190,000 of these
workers by 2018, as industries well beyond tech look for workers who
can help them improve their companies by utilizing information gleaned
from big data.
– McKinsey's Chui said future data scientists also need to be skilled in
statistics, and to be able to tell stories with data, to make it
understandable to a variety of people.
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5. LinkedIn's head of data recruiting, Sherry Shah, describes the job
market for these candidates as being "very hot right now" as the data
field is "very sexy.”
"So its superhard to find the right talent," she said.
Shah said while 80 to 90 percent have a computer science background,
the company also looks for employees in industries like biomedical or
political science.
• Bigdatacareer.in : By 2018, it is estimated that 5 million IT jobs will be
created to support big data globally. Each job in big data, as in the IT
sector, is expected to create 3 more job opportunities based on
insights and innovations unlocked from this data.
- By 2020 the world will generate 50 times the amount of information it
produces today. At the same time, the IT staff to manage this
information will increase by 1.5 times. Business leaders said they
experience at least a moderate shortage of required skills to run their
business. This proportion reaches 43% in Europe.
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Big data is creating career opportunities…cont’d

6. • One of the major hurdles for the big data industry, is a major skills gap
between the number of qualified workers and the expected demand
over the next few years
• Convergence of IoT, cloud, and big data create new opportunities for
self-service analytics
• Jeanne Harris, senior executive at Accenture, has stressed the
significance of analytics professionals by saying, “…data is useless
without the skill to analyze it.” There are more job opportunities in Big
Data management and Analytics than there were last year and many IT
professionals are prepared to invest time and money for the training
• The Big Data Analytics Global Market for Apps and Analytics
Technology will grow by 28.2% CAGR, for Cloud Technology will grow
by 16.1% CAGR, for Computing Technology will grow by 7.1% CAGR,
for NoSQL Technology will grow by 18.9% CAGR over the entire 2015-
2020 period.
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Big data is creating career opportunities…cont’d

7. • The current demand for qualified data professionals is just the
beginning. Srikanth Velamakanni, the Bangalore-based
cofounder and CEO of CA headquartered Fractal Analytics states:
“In the next few years, the size of the analytics market will evolve
to at least one-thirds of the global IT market from the current
one-tenths”
• The demand for Analytics skill is going up steadily but there is a
huge deficit on the supply side. This is happening globally and is
not restricted to any part of geography. In spite of Big Data
Analytics being a ‘Hot’ job, there is still a large number of unfilled
jobs across the globe due to shortage of required skill. A
McKinsey Global Institute study states that the US will face a
shortage of about 190,000 data scientists and 1.5 million
managers and analysts who can understand and make decisions
using Big Data by 2018.
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Big data is creating career opportunities…cont’d

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Big data Analytics Job Titles & Salaries

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Big Data Analytics - Usage Across Industries

10. To Conclude
BigData Technologies, Cloud Computing & Internet of Things is
the next biggest thing in the Industry.
There is a compelling need for skilled people with the ability to
understand data, think from the business point of view and
come up with insights. For this very reason technology
professionals with Analytics skill are finding themselves in high
demand as businesses look to harness the power of Big Data. A
professional with the Analytical skills can master the ocean of
Big Data and become a vital asset to an organization, boosting
the business and their career.
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11. Impact of U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas
“It is unclear at this point. However, if the proposals for changes at the
H1-B visa norms (happen), the industry will surely have an impact,”
said S Gopalakrishnan, a co-founder and former chairman of Infosys.
Anticipating a more protectionist U.S. technology visa programme
under a Donald Trump administration, India's $150 billion IT services
sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States and recruit more
heavily from college campuses there.
"We have to accelerate hiring of locals if they are available, and start
recruiting fresher's from universities there in the USA," said Infosys'
Rao, noting a shift from the traditional model of recruiting mainly
experienced people in the US
Indian Express Newspaper has announced that Infosys has a negative
recruitment growth in 2016-17 for the first time in last 33 years.
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