Do these questions ever cross your mind regarding your Industry?

Who are the most sought after IT professionals in India?

Software analysts, domain specialists, information security experts, integration specialists, database administrators, network specialists and communication engineers, software programmers, designing and architecture experts and data warehousing and semiconductor design specialists.

What is the average age of a software professional in India?

The overall median age of the software professionals is about 27.5 years

What are their qualifications?

• About 81 per cent of all software professionals have a graduate degree or above.
• Almost 13 per cent have qualification like M Tech, MBA, CA, or ICWA.
• One-third -- 67 per cent -- are B Tech, BE or MCAs.
• And 20 per cent are diploma-holders or graduates.

What is the men-women ratio of employed IT professionals?

76 per cent of software professionals in software companies are men, whereas 24 per cent are women. However, Nasscom says this ratio is likely to be 65:35 (men:women) by the year 2007. This ratio is reversed in the ITES-BPO sector where the ratio of men to women is 31:69.

How are the IT professionals selected?

Almost 44 per cent of the companies source their campus recruits from engineering institutes only, though in all, 78 per cent companies visit engineering campuses. About 17 per cent of the companies visit only management school campuses, although as a total, 44 per cent of the data sample, recruit from these institutes.

Six per cent of the organisations in the sample visit only graduate schools, although as a total, 17 per cent of the data sample, recruit from these institutes.

Is there any segment of IT sectors that does not get enough skilled professionals in India?

Emerging growth segments that require relevantly skilled professionals include product data management, content management, enterprise application integration, data warehousing, contingency planning and disaster recovery, e-supply chain management (eSCM), wireless applications, straight through processing (STP), knowledge management, business intelligence, sales force automation (SFA), e-Learning, ePharma, bioinformatics and nanotechnology.