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Tech Careers : Career and Growth Opportunities In today’s Software world of Crowdsourcing
By Prakash Mendonca, Software Architect, USA

The objective of this article is to guide our youth to explore career opportunities in the software industry, particularly the world of crowdsourcing.

What crowd sourcing?

Crowdsourcing is a process that involves outsourcing tasks to a distributed group of people. This process can occur both online and offline. The difference between crowdsourcing and typical outsourcing is that a task or a problem is outsourced to an undefined public (open community)  rather than a specific body, such as paid employees or a vendor.

How it works?

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Today crowd sourcing has become the platform of choice for the small and middle level organization. Crowd sourcing platform has given the opportunity to the youngsters to become what they want in their software career, without being in the Software industry.  Early stage in college they can start spending their time on technology and goals they want achieve, that can be Software Developer, Architect or web designer or technical writer. Whatever you want to be is available in the todays Internet world.

There is a case study available at Odesk.com. I would encourage interested readers to explore the URL and get more details. I would like to highlight the above reference as one of the starting point where lakhs of people have got benefited.  Odesk.com is a crowdsourcing site, which has given the opportunity for thousands of tech professionals for globally to work on the various technologies such as php, MySQL, Perl, Java, and various projects that involve web designing, software development, infrastructure support, software architecture. Individuals need to prepare and pass the test before attempting the projects.

I would encourage, young and upcoming professionals to start thinking on those directions and start the first step. Initially it might be difficult to achieve, but it will give you the opportunity to start your own career. This site has been recognized by the top software and tech companies of the world.

Guidelines to use crowdsourcing:
1.    Understand the requirement well. Target the technology that you are well versed.
2.    Break down the work and start focusing the development or other lifecycle.
3.    Deliver the project before deadline.
4.    Make sure that you have tested the all the requirements .
5.    Look into the screening process, if everything seems to be working fine then you will get paid.