The growth of training companies has a direct co-relation with the demand and supply concept with booming IT industry in India. Ideally many IT professionals were from the same field or armed with a computer management degree. The trend is deviating as more professionals are now coming from commerce and science streams. Lucrative careers, the dream to explore, talent and interest is the main areas that promote this kind of deviation from mainstream career into the IT industry.
There are companies that exclusively train IT professionals. The training includes various software’s including Dream weaver, Desk Top applications, Photoshop and other animation software’s. There are macromedia tutorials and others on how to manage a website. Graphics and web designing is also becoming a niche field where the professionals work on project basics to cater to animation industry, e learning organizations or web hosting companies.
Basic courses on Microsoft applications like Word, Excel spreadsheets is also imparted to financial and marketing companies. One can hire such IT companies as an ongoing training programme or for guest lectures. Certification from such companies is valid and enhances work performance. There are other hardware training companies to get to know the working of hardware peripherals and broad band application. Networking is a niche field where the demand for professionals is high these days. The IT training companies are mostly affiliated with foreign companies that aid the qualification.
There is a sporadic growth of training institutes and engineering colleges that offer premium IT degrees. The course is aligned on international level to suit a global application. Internet based education is also a trend. There are companies that provide corporate training programmes to educate the cream crowd in the organization.
Technical writing is a broad based area and one is given training on Epic Editor, Adobe frame maker, Robohelp and Visio. C Dac is the Centre for Development of Advanced computing based in Pune and this imparts training to create manpower for India. There are graduate diplomas and certificate courses and also other post graduate diploma in information technology. The fields include Advanced computing, VLSI designing and e Governance. There are certification programmes in MySQL, network administration and wireless LAN support.