What To Do If You Lost Your Job Because Of Covid-19
Millions of workers have been laid off due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. If you’re part of that group, you may be wondering what you should do next to ensure your survival.
One of the most resilient industries throughout this pandemic has been the tech industry, which offers many avenues of continued, remote work. Many of these jobs can be acquired after completing accelerated boot camps, which are short-term, intensive training programs capable of equipping students with four years worth of tech knowledge in under one year.
If you’ve lost your job because of Covid-19 and are looking to make a career switch into a resilient tech job, read on to learn which career might be for you and where you can get the training required to begin your journey.
Software Engineer
Software Engineers design, build and maintain the software that basically allows us to live our every day, tech-reliant lives. These professional programmers build the software we are accustomed to using, from Computer programs to mobile apps and social media tools.
Software engineering is a growing tech field with an expected job growth rate of 21 percent by 2028. As a software engineer, you can earn a salary of around $50,000 for an entry-level job; more experienced engineers earning around $98,000.
Data Scientist
Data Scientists build systems that collect data for business purposes. Business departments need data to be able to better plan strategies. After data is collected, it must be so decision-makers can be better informed. Data scientists build organizational analysis systems in programming languages like SQL, R or Python, for example.
Data science is a growing sector of the tech industry with job growth of 16 percent by 2028. Data scientists can earn over $108,000 per year, and even entry-level positions pay about $95,000 per year.
Cybersecurity Engineer
Cybersecurity involves writing the code that safeguards a company’s confidential information and data. More importantly, customer data and information must also be protected from cyber-attacks.
Cybersecurity Engineers build this security infrastructure. They also perform white hat hacking, the process of ethically attempting to break into a company’s database to expose any potential security risks.
Cybersecurity is perhaps the fastest-growing field in the tech industry with a projected job growth rate of 32 percent by 2028. Cybersecurity engineers can stand to make a comfortable salary of around $50,000 for entry-level roles, with more senior engineers earning over $130,000.
Digital Marketer-SEO Manager
Digital marketing is the process of driving new business through online means. SEO Managers are skilled content creators who drive new business revenue by creating content focused around keyword searches. By creating specific keyword centric content, websites rank higher in search engine results. The higher a website ranks in search results, the easier it is to scale a business.
Digital marketing is expanding within the tech industry at a rate of 8 percent by the year 2028. Digital marketers can expect an average salary of $71,000 to $94,000 per year, depending on experience.
Web Developer
Web developers build high-quality websites. There are two parts to web development: the user experience (UX) and the user interface (UI).
The user experience is the part that you actually see on the screen. The programmers in charge of building and designing the layout and interactive parts of the websites are called web designers. Web designers build the layout of websites in programming languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
The user interface is the coding running behind the scenes to make the application work. The tech professionals in charge of this aspect are called Web Developers. Web developers code the user interface in programming languages like Python, Ruby, Java and PHP.
Highly skilled web developers able to do both UX and UI are called full stack developers. These tech professionals are always in high demand and can earn more money.
Web developers can expect an entry-level salary of around $50,000, with salaries for more experienced developers over $90,000.
If any of these digital careers sound interesting to you, let’s touch upon the best way to make your career switch a reality. Luckily, you don’t necessarily have to return to college or university and spend four years studying as a new alternative, coding boot camps, have become the norm.
Coding Bootcamps
A traditional computer science or information technology degree through a four-year university program is no longer required to break into the tech industry. Instead, many new tech professionals are learning everything they need to know through short-term, intensive coding boot camps.
Coding boot camps can teach you the necessary programming skills you need to become a tech professional in less than a year. Moreover, many boot camp grads finish their programs in as little as 10 to 24 weeks.
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