Covid 19 Pandemic not only taken lots of life of many people but also the livelihood, across the globe. It’s the start of 2021 now and whole world rethinking and struggling to overcome these impacts. Accordingly to Economic and Financial experts, among many other challenges of Covid 19 situation, a dominant one is job recession and it may increase in the coming days. Companies are forced to lay off their employees, discontinuing the projects and planning to reduce the production cost to minimum, in future. In this situation, online jobs and freelance work is the only best solution appeared to be feasible to keep the economic activities alive. One reason for the boom of freelance industry is, it doesn’t need human interaction and workers can maintain the social distance by working from home.
At this time, fresh graduates and the employees in the fear of losing job, giving more attention to learn those skills in 2021 and coming years, that could help them to either get them back to jobs or could prepare them to work as Freelancer. Those professions remained least impacted where minimum human interaction is required and could work from home. Such professional exists in IT Industry at the top, where an employee could easy work from home and add value to organization.
Looking from the perspective of Computer science graduates, there are few job roles that could be suggested to be adopted as full time profession, and Software Testing is one of them. In my previous article “Why Software Testing is a Good Career”, I discussed multiple reasons why Software Testing is a good profession. Among them, one important reason is, if you have good understanding of Software Testing and you successfully finished few projects, you can work as a Freelancer, and can earn an additional amount of money to survive in difficult times.
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