The field of Information technology sees inventions and innovations being made every other day. It is in the best interest of an IT professional to keep updating his technical skills and qualifications from time to time. There are a lot of customized computer certificate and diploma courses for almost every segment of the IT industry tailored keeping in mind the needs of career oriented people.

There are specialisation courses which are job-oriented courses meant for people who like to specialize in a definite IT or ITES stream. These include:
 

• Linux
• C programming
• C++ programming
• VB
• RDBMS
• JAVA programming: Core, Advanced & Enterprise edition
• .NET
• Visual Basic
• Tally

The duration of these courses vary between 1 to 6 months. A core Java professional, if a fresher, would get around Rs 8000-12,000 per month. Experienced candidates can get more than Rs 25,000 per month as the initial salary on completion of this course. Someone who has completed an advanced Java course would work as a software developer, swing programmer, technical architect or web component developer. Freshers having done this course can start at Rs 15000-25,000 per month. Experienced candidates get around Rs 35,000 per month. After having completed a course in Java Enterprise Edition, one can work as a team lead or business component developer earning Rs 25,000-35,000 as a fresher and more than Rs 45,000 if an experienced graduate.

Apart from these there are a lot of online computer certificate courses that are available. Some of them are:
 

• Search Engine Optimisation  (SEO)
• Hibernate Training Course
• J2EE Course
• Oracle 10g DBA
• Testing Tools Course
• Web Designing

There are courses in Networking which are taught at various levels like A+, N+, CCNA, CCNP, MCSE, MCITP etc. Your job profile after completing each of these levels varies from hardware engineer, junior network engineer, junior network administrator, network administrator, system administrator to server administrator. Starting salary ranges from Rs 5000-7000 for a hardware engineer to Rs 15000 for a server administrator. With experience, these figures rise to Rs 10,000 to Rs 30,000 respectively.

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