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In turn, Lidiya Terekhova advises to rely on personal preferences when moving to the IT sphere. If a person does not have any intended niches, it is necessary to decide whether he wants to be a technical specialist, that is, write program code, and then orientate himself with the direction: frontend developer, backend developers, tester, data engineer, data scientist, etc. With the choice of direction, the choice of programming language for study will also become clear.

— If you don’t plan to write belgium whatsapp number database program code, then it’s better to give preference to such areas as product manager, project manager, program manager, prompt engineer, UI/UX designer, analytics, marketing or HR. Such specialists are always needed by IT companies,— she says.

The IIT sphere itself is quite extensive, and a wide variety of specialists successfully build careers in it - not just "techies", adds Evgeniya Russkikh. And perhaps there is no point in retraining and starting a career from scratch, but it is better to continue developing in your own field, but within the framework of an IT company.

— If a person has consciously decided to become an IT specialist, then first of all they need to decide on the direction, learn as much as possible about the specialty, technologies and skills that they will need to develop. At the same time, it is always important to remember that in order to become a highly paid IT specialist, it is often necessary to go through a rather long and difficult path, — she concludes.

As analysts from the job search portal Superjob told Izvestia, over the past year, the market has seen a 10% increase in IT vacancies, while the salary growth rate was 8.1%. The highest salaries now belong to Java programmers (average - 300 thousand rubles, maximum - 500 thousand), product managers (290-500 thousand rubles) and DevOps engineers (280-500 thousand rubles). At the same time, salary growth of 5-9% was noted in the cybersecurity sector, with the highest income in it belonging to information security directors (400-800 thousand rubles), heads of the information security department (320-570 thousand rubles), and information security specialists (190-300 thousand).

Tips for schoolchildren
If it is not an adult but a child who decides to study to become an IT specialist, parents can be sure that he or she has chosen a profession that is in demand, says Ilya Samonenko, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. There are universities offering such specialties in almost every region. But it is important to pay attention to the quality of education and strive to get into a leading Russian university.

— Participation in school Olympiads will be a good help for this. There are a lot of them now, and they are an alternative to the Unified State Exam for admission to a university, — the Izvestia interlocutor notes. — If you start taking part in them no later than the ninth grade, then with a high probability by the end of the 11th grade the result of one or another Olympiad can be counted when entering a university.

In turn, Lidiya Terekhova advises such schoolchildren to develop abstract and logical thinking, learn mathematics and maintain a high level of English. It is also important to follow trends in the IT sphere (communicate with specialists in the chosen field, read articles and watch videos on the Internet).

According to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab, 41% of Russian children and teenagers want to work in the IT sector today. Evgeniya Russkikh advises preparing for this in advance: for this, you can participate in various projects that are being implemented with the support of market players. Among them are federal projects in schools, for example, "Digital Lesson", as well as internships in companies: in Kaspersky Lab, in particular, there is "Valley of Technologies" - an internship for schoolchildren and college students.