Career Growth and Development in IT Service Sector: Google & IBM

This report provides an overview of career and growth development within the computer hardware consulting and IT service sector, with a specific focus on Google and IBM. The report examines job opportunities, training and development programs, and career advancement prospects within these two major IT companies. The research includes an analysis of job requirements, training methodologies (including personalized and on-the-job training), and the companies' approaches to employee development, such as leadership skill development and multi-tasking capabilities. The report highlights the importance of analyzing companies' websites and other resources to understand the skills and qualifications required for IT professionals. The findings emphasize the benefits of training programs for employees and the companies, and the report concludes with an assessment of the career and growth opportunities in the IT sector.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
FINDINGS.......................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In the present report, I am summarizing the career and growth development in the
computer hardware consulting and IT service sector industry. In the report, I am looking fort the
appropriate job opportunities and career development opportunities in different types of
companies. The major focus of my study is the training and development program held by
various IT companies in order to develop the skills and knowledge of their employees. In order to
make an in depth research on these topics, I will approach a range of various company's websites
so as to review and analyse the development opportunities in those companies. In addition, I will
also approach various general websites, magazines, newspapers and other articles based on those
companies, to review numerous career and development programs held by those companies for
their employees.
I have chosen two major companies working in the IT service sector industry namely
Google and IBM (Odabasi and et.al., 2018). Both the companies comes under the list of one of
the major the companies working under IT service sector industry. Being one of leading
companies in the world, working in these companies would definitely be more beneficiary for my
own career development. Further, with the help of training and development program conducted
by these companies for their employees, I would be able learn various new things which would
be helpful for me in my own career growth and development.
Furthermore, I will also approach some websites that helps in gaining jobs in these
companies. With the help of these websites I will gain knowledge about minimum requirement of
the companies to recruit any new employee in the companies. In this order, I would be able to
identify the the required skills that I would need to gain for the purpose of having job in those
companies. Moreover, these websites will also help me in approaching IBM and Google for the
recruitment purpose. Both IBM and Google offers job to fresh graduates and experienced
employees. As I am a graduate in the information technology, I am eligible to get jobs in both the
companies.
In addition, Google conducts variety of career and development programs. They have
employed professionals in the company that are working for providing appropriate training to
each employees as per the requirement of their jobs (Leeds and et.al., 2018). It is an effective
way of providing training to the employees. In this regard, being a candidate of the information
technology field, I will gain an opportunity to improve my skills and knowledge in this field.
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Further, IBM provides both formal and informal learning and development program to the
employees. In addition, it also conduct both indoor and outdoor training program for its
employees (Eickhoff and et.al., 2018). It helps the employees in gaining the opportunities of the
personalised development of their skills and knowledge. In order to this, if I get the opportunity
of being employed in the IBM, I would be able to develop myself as a IT professional. Moreover,
I would also be able to gain the opportunity of having personalised growth.
Further, these companies have conducted the schemes of the employing more freshers in
the company and provide them training as per their skills and knowledge. This scheme is helpful
for the companies as they become able to create the ability in the employees as per the needs of
the employees. Further, by providing more job opportunities to the freshly graduate person than
the experienced candidates, helps the companies in recruiting candidates in way lower amount of
salaries than the experienced employees along with gaining the benefits of fresh ideas of business
development from them (Willoughby and et.al., 2018). In contrary to this, the recruited
candidates get the opportunities to grow themselves, learn a range of new things. In addition,
developing the career in the most leading companies of the world will definitely enhance their
future career and growth opportunities. In this regard, I would be able to improve my career and
growth opportunities of improving my knowledge of information technology and learning a
range of new things by taking benefits of the effective training and development programs
conducted by the these companies.
FINDINGS
While making research over the career growth and development opportunities in the IT
sector companies, first and foremost I located the job requirements in the companies. I
approached a range of websites that provides job opportunities in various companies so as to
identify the job opportunities in IBM and Google companies. I also make an in depth research of
vacant job advert section of these companies' own website. This research helped me in
determining the vacant job positions in both companies and identifying the minimum
qualifications and skills requirement.
IBM company's website have a different section called namely career section. The section
provides an option of search your job (Do your best work ever, 2019). Which also provides two
options i.e. search entry level jobs or search experienced job. With the help of which one can
easily find appropriate jobs as per their own skills. Further, entering into any one of the category,
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I found various job positions in the IBM along with the minimum qualification that the company
needs to be held by the company in order to apply for the job.
In contrary to this, the Google's job search engine has been designed in more detailed. It
provides more detailed options to candidates for searching appropriate jobs for them. It provides
field wise job vacancies in the company. In this regard, it was easy for me to find jobs as per my
skills and qualifications. In both the companies website, I was looking for the job of graduate
fresher in the information technology and having knowledge of various computer languages. In
addition, by searching jobs on these websites I found that both the companies are looking for
fresh candidates having effective analysing power along with good communication skills and
strong convincing power. Although, none of the companies website shows the amount to be paid
for the job position.
Further, as my main focal point was to analyse training and development program
conducted by these companies, I searched on the training and developing sections of IBM and
Google's personal websites. IBM have a different section with the name IBM your learning on
their website. It provides information about the policies and procedures adopted by it for the
purpose of providing training to its employees (Training and Development. 2019). By analysing
it I realized that IBM conducts personalised training for each of its employees. It results in
providing more effective training to them. Further, I think, conduction of this type of training and
development program helps in showing a path through which an individual can get success in his
field. Evaluating IBM's your learning site also showed that it appoints professionals for the
purpose of providing training and development program to each of the employee as per their own
field, skill and knowledge. I think this policy of the IBM improves the efficiency of training and
development program conducted by it (Kumar and et.al., 2018). In this regard, I think, if I get
the opportunity of being an employee of IBM, I would get more and more opportunity to
improve my skills and knowledge of various latest technologies and updates in the information
technology filed.
Comparing to it, when I make a research for the training and development program
conducted by Google, I found that the company has made a research for various types of research
that could be provided to employees along with their results for companies (Liguori and et.al.,
2019). After making such research now Google has decided to innovate the traditional method of
training, as when the training is being provided to the employees through traditional way, most of
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the employees although understands every thing, but fails to implement it on the actual working.
It also increases the cost and time to be involved by the company in providing training to its
employees. In order to this, the Google has decided to provide on the job training to its
employees. It helps the firm in providing the personal training to each employee. In addition, it
also resolves the problem of employees in failing in the implementation of knowledge and skills
over their working. In this regard, as per my opinion, the policy of providing personalised
training and development program to employees is increasing the productivity of both company
and its employees in conducting training and development program and gaining knowledge
respectively.
In contrary to this, looking at training and development policies of IBM states that, IBM
has developed a special app for its employees. It has given it the name “:just in time” the app
provides a range of recommendation and information to its employees., with the help of which
they can easily resolve their queries with company's policies (Dandala, Joopudi and
Devarakonda, 2018). Further, the app also provides information about various working styles and
steps of performing any specific activity in the company. In this regard, employees can resolve
their difficulties on their own. It reduces the cost of the company in providing specific training
and development to its employees. Further, in my opinion, it also provides an opportunity to the
employees to learn the things whenever they want. In this order, it enhances the efficiency of
working of the employees and company in providing training as well.
Further, by analysing the scheme adopted by the Google, I analysed that the company
prefers providing corporate training to its employees. Further, it helps in reducing the
ineffectiveness of the overall company's performance (The Google Way of Building A Strong
Learning Culture, 2018). The firm started providing on the job corporate training to its
employees and evaluated the actual results for the purpose of comparing it with previous results.
By differentiating these performances, Google realised that adoption of this scheme helped it in
improving its overall performance. It improved the productivity of working of its employees and
the company in making its workers to understand several things. Moreover, it also reduced the
need of providing supervision to its employees.
Further, I think, by getting on the job corporate training, the self analysing power of the
employee increases. If I get chance to be employed in Google, with the help of effective schemes
regarding training and development program of the employees, I would be able to learn new
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things in more effective way (Training for Android and web developers, 2019). In addition, by
gaining on the job training, conversion of theoretical training into practical knowledge would
also be more easy. In this regard, I realised that doing job in the Google will help me in
improving my skills, knowledge along with my analysing power.
In other contrast, IBM believes in providing training to each employee for the purpose of
developing and improving leadership skills of the employees. It keeps developing different
schemes to be apply on the working styles of workers through such as team development,
development of different groups for performing different activities, etc. these schemes unable the
IBM in developing leadership skills in various employees. Further, it also provided benefit to the
employees to grow their career as leader and improve their development opportunities. In this
regard, I think, getting employment in the IBM can help me in enhancing my future career
opportunities, as an individual having effective leadership quality definitely gets more
opportunities for their development purpose.
Further, due to having curiosity of self progression, I started searching for more about the
training and development schemes of IBM and Google. By doing more in depth research, I found
that IBM focuses on developing its employees as multi tasking individual so that they could gain
maximum return from its employees in reducing the need of workers in the business. In this
order, the company enhances the cost control system and improve the human resource
management of the company. In addition, it also helps the employees in growing various skills
through which they can enhance the number of options to be chosen for growing themselves.
Gaining knowledge about performing various tasks to be performed in the information
technology can help me in improving my skills in overall information technological department.
It will help me in increasing number number of options to available for me in growing my career
in the information technology sector.
On the other hand, by doing in depth study of Google's learning and development
program, I analysed that the firm have different policies and schemes for different types of
workers of the organisation. For the fresher candidates employed by it, the company conducts
training and development program in which they are being trained from the zero (Griksaitis and
et.al., 2018). If I talk about the training and development scheme of the company adopted by the
Google for its freshers of information technology field, it conducts training from the basic
participles and techniques of the subject till the need of their job. Further, the company keeps
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providing training to its employees whenever it finds to be needed. In this regard, I think, being
employed in the Google will be beneficiary for me as I would get the opportunity of gaining in
depth knowledge about the overall information technology system. It would enhance my
understanding of the overall field as well. Further, by getting continuous training in the
information technology will expand my knowledge level about the field, with the help of which I
would be able to gain more opportunity to have more growth in the filed.
In addition, by when I study about more schemes adopted by IBM, I analysed that IBM
used the latest technological equipment for the purpose of providing training and more
knowledge about their field so as to improve their workings (IBM Your Learning. 2019). It
conducts visualized training through which it shows videos to the trainers. As per the views of
IBM's directors and managers, visualized training and development program is more effective
than the traditional way of providing training. It improves the efficiency of understanding
numerous things as visualized view of anything improves the understanding ability of the viewer.
In this order, the employees have more understanding over the knowledge provided by the
company. Further, as per my views, if I got a chance to get a job in the information technology
department of the IBM, I would be able to understand a range of new things and improve my
understanding about the topics I taught in the training program. Moreover, visualized view of
various topics will also improve my ability to improve my ability of implementing theoretical
knowledge-base into practical things.
While analysing the Google's training and development program, I also found that Google
believes in learning from your colleagues. It believes that each employee at least one expertise
knowledge about any one topic. In this order, the company has developed a policy to involve
peer to peer conversation within the organisation. It leads in making the employees to take help
from their colleagues whenever they stuck into any problem. It results in spreading the
knowledge among the employees without incurring any further cost or without developing need
of conducting any new training and development program.
Further, with the help of peer to peer communication network, the employees of
information technology department get chance to gain new things from their co workers which is
more beneficiary for them and which help them in enhancing the understanding about the
specific topic. Therefore, I think, with the help of this scheme of the company, I would be able
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improve my understanding over numerous topics of information technology along with learning
numerous information technological techniques in more effective way.
Therefore, by summarizing all the findings of IBM and Google's adopted scheme, I can
evaluate that both the company have adopted best techniques for improving skills and knowledge
of their employees. Both the companies uses various latest technological techniques for
providing effective training to their employees. In this order, I can say that gaining job in these
companies would help me in improving and enhancing career development and growth
opportunities for me in informational technology field.
CONCLUSION
From the analysis of my above research of companies of information technology industry
i.e. IBM and Google and career and growth opportunities in these companies I can conclude that
to cinduct training and development programn is an essential activity for ewach company. It
helps the business in developing their employees fit for their jobs. Further, it is also important for
the employees as it helps them in improving their own skills and knowledge-base which can help
them in enhancing their number of career options.
Further, with the range of findings over schemes and policies adopted by IBM and
Google, I can conclude that focus of both the companies is to develop their employees in such a
way so that they could gain the maximum benefits from them and enhance the overall
performance of the company. Further, the IBM focuses on enhancing the leadership quality in
each employee so that it could build a large amount of leaders in the company and improve the
workings of overall organisation. On the other hand, Google focuses in providing knowledge
about each tlopic from the base so as to enhance the understanding of employees over each topic
and improve their workings as well.
In this order, I think, both the companies provide equivalent opportunities to an individual
to build up their career options. Working in IBM can help me in building leadership quality in
myself along with understanding numerous things. On the other hand, working in the Google
can help me in developing in depth knowledge about numerous things, with the help of which my
understanding about several topics of information technology can be improved. It can help me in
improving my knowledge and enhancing my career and development opportunities in the
information technology field.
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