The Future of Work: Analysis of Required Skills for Graduates in the Technology Industry

The Future of Work
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Introduction
Technology has changed how employment industry focuses on skills required to
undertake daily business activities. In order to make sure organization gets relevant employees
suitable to undertake their activities, employers need to be sure there is skills match with
advertised employment opportunity (Shivoro, Shalyefu & Kadhila 2018, p. 222). Analysis of
current employment opportunities in the market would be main focus of this article in order to
ascertain skills in demand by employers in Information Technology industry. Graduate
opportunities would be analyzed in order to determine which skills fresh graduates should
possess in order to be competitive in the market. This analysis would be very useful to graduates
who wants to align themselves with industrial requirements when looking for jobs. The nature in
skills and competency requirements by employers have been changing as firms try to structure
their business operations. In order to remain relevant in the industry, organizations have been
adopting new operational strategy such as technology adoption. Besides technological adoption,
ability to secure business competitive advantage in the market would be analyzed in a bid to keep
privacy of the business (Elmedni & Lyons 2015, p. 42). Therefore, employment opportunities for
fresh graduate, required skills by employers and competencies to sustain business
competitiveness would be at the center of the discussion.
Analysis of the current graduate job market
In the technology sector, there are so many graduate opportunities which require diverse
skills and competencies in order to secure employment. Some of the employment opportunities
in technology industry are; software development, Technical customer support in various
organizations, website developer, graphic designer, code validation and testing, Network setup
and administration, front end and back end developer as well as system maintenance (Blickley et

al. 2013, p. 26). In order to secure any job opportunity in this sector, employers are looking for
skills such as; software development in core java, mobile development, skills and ability to work
on SOAPs and RESTFUL applications. On the same note, skills in code debugging and
validation is required in order to be able to support customers in various market sector.
Employers expect graduates to demonstrate these required skills during selection process by
setting some practical interview questions (Cain et al. 2012, p. 81-82). These questions can either
be practical on code development environment, online code interpretation or theoretical on
papers as the aim is to test for software development skills. Similarly, employers are testing these
skills by requesting a presentation of any software developed in their technology of choice such
as java, C# and PHP.
Once of the attractive advertised position is on Technical customer support. The
responsibilities that suitable candidate would perform are; hardware and software
troubleshooting in cases of issues, supporting customers on inabilities to understand minor
software functionalities, network troubleshooting and maintenance as well as data analysis. The
ideal candidate to fill the position should possess the following skills; data analysis, hardware
and software troubleshooting skills, in-depth understanding of network and maintenance as well
as database development and maintenance. This position was quite attractive to me by virtue of
the fact that, it does not have so much commitment compared to software development. There
are no technical skills required which might be challenging because it is just customer support
which require proper communication skills and relationship management (Farkas & Nagy 2008,
p. 48).
Analysis of the Future of Work