Top 10 sectors: 4.3 crores jobs in the coming years!

From retail to pharma, commercial agriculture and healthcare, here's what you need to study good career.

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THE conflict between animals and humans has increased of late. Mahi Puri, an MSc, Environmental Sciences student gives us an example. “Elephants seasonally migrate from Orissa to Jharkhand via Chattisgarh. But due to mining activities in Chattisgarh forests, the pachyderms directly come in contact with workers and their villages leading to fatal clashes," she explains.

The 25-year-old TERI University student, who volunteered with wildlife organisations for five years, makes her point. It takes a new breed of professionals to handle such conflicts and ensure that development happens without too much ecological devastation. Welcome to the world of Developmental Officer or Environmental Manager, a career that never existed ten years ago.

For the second consecutive year, we attempted to identify those sectors and careers that provide the maximum number of exciting opportunities in the coming year. What are the skill sets needed to enter these sectors? Where are the jobs? The results came as a revelation.

While Banking, Pharma, Retail, IT and Education remain the top sectors where most of the action happens, a whole new range of sectors have emerged out of the blue. The new job guzzlers are – Ethical Tourism, Design Services, Shared IT Services, Real Estate and Food Processing.

The nature of jobs has also undergone a sea change. New careers like Chief Happiness Officer, Design Analyst, Risk Evaluator, and Sustainability Expert have come into being. Each of these jobs demand skill sets which are complex and cut across disciplines. So in addition to above average understanding of the domain, ability to learn quickly, draw lessons from diverse experiences and events and apply them to situations which are totally different are some of the new skill demands placed on the executive of today.

Where are maximum job opportunities?

Every sector is likely to grow where the technology involved has undergone a basic shift, or a new model of servicing them came into being, says E. Balaji MaFoi Randstad’s MD & CEO. For example, in Banking, still nearly 81 percent of the population has no access to formal banking channels. And since their saving potential is erratic, the serving model has to be cost effective.

The micro-credit revolution that swept the market recently is an example, which in its wake brought in more than 3 lakh opportunities for young graduates as lending and credit officers.

Balaji’s view is shared by other experts also. The notable aspect, however, is post-recession, almost all sectors have recorded growth (barring a few, like Real Estate) and a few made impressive gains.

According to experts some sectors hold a definitive sway in the coming 3-4 years like Banking and allied verticals, Telecom and some, like the green sector, will deliver the best in the coming 5-year horizon. Defensive sectors like Pharma will clock a steady growth.

Want to start a property brokerage firm?

If you want to start your own property consulting business but don’t know what to do next, then this article is for you.

You have very closely seen the growth of real estate and property business in India. Infact, you have seen people raking money in property brokerage business. Now, you want to start your own property consulting firm but are not sure of the processes required. Infact, you know everything about this business but when it comes to actually starting it, you don’t what to do and where to start from. You have several ideas in mind and get as much advice as many experts are there. Still you are not clear of steps that you should take-Probably you need somebody who can guide you step-by-step by telling you what you do the next.

On the other hand, though there are advisors and management consultants who advice individuals and organisations about starting a business but their service charges are usually much higher than your total budget for this business. It is due to this need and to promote real estate entrepreneurship in India, EduMark Education Services started a program ‘Planning and Starting a Property Consulting Business’.

Through this program, EduMark provides you with step-by-step guidance to plan and start your own property related business. Infact, EduMark offers you more than the guidance-It offers you a network of mentors who are experienced real estate entrepreneurs and professionals who will enrich you with their knowledge and experience. In addition EduMark offers you a platform for each and every query, enquiry and needs of yours.

Key features of this program:

In this highly structured program, EduMark (http://www.edumarkindia.in) offers you knowledge and resource in three categories, as follows:

Subject Knowledge: Property Law, Brokerage & Marketing

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Formation of Company and Government Approvals:

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Starting property broking activities:

You have now knowledge of the property market and have established company. Now you want to start the actual activities. Therefore, EduMark now helps you associate with and get agency of leading property developers. It helps you join network of leading consultants. Mentors at EduMark helps you plan your marketing and promotion activities and use technology in actually promoting reaching upto your clients-the home buyers. Mentors further help you recruit and train suitable employees for your organisation. EduMark and its mentors further help you network with different players in the market.

Overall, EduMark’s ‘Planning and Starting a Property Consulting Business’ is a program that offers hand holding service to those who want to start their own property consulting business. To know more about this course, please visit www.edumarkindia.in or mail to :edumarkvet@gmail.com

South Korean Coaching Giant Etoos Enters Indian Market

Source: VCC

Backed by the SK Group, Etoos focuses on two businesses, the e-learning website and its offline coaching centres.

Etoos Academy, a South Korean coaching conglomerate, is all set to enter the Indian market and is currently setting up in Kota (Rajasthan) its first-ever institute for IIT JEE coaching. The institute will become functional by May this year.

Backed by the SK Group, one of the industrial conglomerates in South Korea, Etoos focuses on two major businesses, the e-learning website and its offline coaching centres. The institute provides coaching for Korean Scholastic Aptitude Test (KSAT) – the common entrance exam for professional colleges – much like the Indian entrance exams like IIT JEE, AIPMT and CAT.

“We understand the need of Indian students who struggle with traditional coaching systems. Hence, we thought of making it a liberating yet fun-filled education system for them. At Etoos Academy, we provide faculty-based, topic-based, level-based and time-based class options and ensure value for money,” said Sung Jin Kang, director (India), Etoos Academy. The organisation will set up its India headquarters in Gurgaon, Haryana.

There are quite a few players like Career Launcher, Mahesh Tutorials, FIITJEE, IMS and TIME in the country, which are growing fast in the entrance coaching segment. Also, the education sector in India has witnessed an increasing interest from PE players, with investments of $190 million across 23 deals in 2010, compared to the 10 deals worth $128 million in 2009, states a report by VCCEdge.

In 2009, FIITJEE, a leader in IIT entrance coaching, raised Rs 100 crore from Matrix Partners, a Mumbai-based venture capital firm. Matrix owns about 10 per cent in the company. Other test preparation companies who have raised private equity include Career Launcher (from Intel Capital in first round and under $10 million from Gaja Capital Partners in series B) and Mahesh Tutorials (about $12 million from Helix Investments).

According to a recent Ernst & Young report on education, Indian higher education system has established itself as one of the largest in the world, in terms of number of institutions and student enrolment. Higher education spends in India are currently estimated at Rs 46,200 crore and are projected to grow to nearly Rs 1,50,000 crore in the next 10 years.

Dubai properties 60 % cheaper than Mumbai

7 Apr, 2011, 10.58AM IST,PTI

DUBAI: A growing number of investors from India are showing interest in Dubai as they look to capitalise on 60 per cent savings per square foot in the Dubai property market, a Dubai-based real estate company has said.

DAMAC Properties said in addition to the price disparity, Dubai's property market is becoming increasingly attractive to foreign investors due to the implementation of a raft of new regulations, such as the new Strata law, which favours home owners.

"As these new tougher and more stringent regulations take hold, Indian investors are looking to take advantage of the plethora of investment opportunities that exist within the emirate's real estate market," it said in a statement.

At an average price per square foot of USD 264 in Dubai, according to Colliers International, property is now 60 per cent less expensive than in central Mumbai , where the price per square foot is USD 664 according to Jones Lang LaSalle .

DAMAC Properties Senior Vice-President Niall McLoughlin said: "At DAMAC Properties, we have seen a marked rise in interest across our Dubai portfolio from Indian investors; in January 2011 we had double-digit growth in enquiries on the same period last year.

"Not only are we seeing a surge of interest from potential Investors from India but also from other emerging markets such as sub Sahara Africa and China who are looking for quality assets, at competitive prices."

According to McLoughlin, even though confidence was shaken following the global slowdown, the introduction of new regulations in Dubai gives property buyers more security over their investments. DAMAC Properties has also welcomed the return of liquidity into the mortgage market, which it cites as another major factor in the revival of the emirate's real estate sector.

"Now that banks and financial institutions have begun to regain confidence in the market, and are again in a position to offer financing packages, it will start to address the issue of oversupply -- one of the major factors in the sector's devaluation," McLoughlin said.