Emerging careers in IT sector

Sri Lanka's job market is growing. The Everjobs report is a guide to a job-rich path The recent Everjobs career report details several booming industries in Sri Lanka that will continue its growth in the coming years.

"The goal of the career report is to provide significant data that sheds light on the latest developments in Sri Lanka's job market," said co-founder of Everjobs, Ronald Schuurs. "Anytime we get into a conversation about what we can do about the skills shortage in Sri Lanka, the issue of awareness always comes up," he said.

"We need to inform job seekers about the areas of the highest demand, the opportunities offered, the skills needed and even the locations with most job listings," said Schuurs.

The report was assembled by monitoring the traffic on Everjobs.lk over the previous three months. After starting with market predictions and a list of occupations predicted to grow, the Everjobs team worked with focus group sessions to refine its findings into a usable report.

The IT sector offered the most jobs for online job seekers in Sri Lanka, followed by the automotive, financial services, manufacturing and education sectors.

The report further cites multinational IT corporations rapidly taking over smaller IT companies and expanding operations in Sri Lanka as the pivotal factor for the tech industry to remain a powerful job engine.

"As a fast-growing online career platform we have access to the relevant numbers and, therefore, see it as our duty to share this information. We feel that this report is real time and local," said Managing Director, Everjobs, Sascha Woelk. "You need to direct your (educational) efforts towards something that is going to be fruitful and lead to a job opportunity that you know will be there," he said.

"With job seekers receiving this report, Everjobs hopes to increase awareness to fields that weren't necessarily considered before as it is important to know the job-rich paths that are available," Woelk said.

Everjobs is a job portal which operates in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, Cameroon, Senegal, Ivory Coast and Uganda. Launched in March 2015, Everjobs aims at becoming the leading job portal in fast growing economies by finding the right match for employers and candidates. The company is backed by the Asia Pacific Internet Group (APACIG).