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Many industries suffered heavily because of Covid-19 as the nation witnessed lockdowns and economic activity came to a halt. Ultimately this has led to large-scale job losses across these industries. As the world tried to grapple with the pandemic and what it meant for businesses, many alternate career options arose as technology became a saviour and even allowed people to work from homes.

Along with these changes, comes a new world order that requires people to up their game in order to be ready for work in a world replete with technological advancement and effective use of online data.

Here are some alternate career options one can look at, that are bound to witness further growth after gaining immense traction and popularity in the post-pandemic world.

As the cybersecurity industry seems to be booming and has recorded a job growth of over 5% in the past few months, it makes it a very promising sector to be a part of.

Securing the networks, safeguarding confidential data, and employee operations against the many security threats has become extremely important, especially with remote working taking precedence.

More and more industries like healthcare, banking and finance, and even government organizations need cybersecurity experts to secure their networks and systems.

This has led to an imminent need for experts in the field and demand along with remuneration for these experts is fairly high.

One of the sectors hit badly by the pandemic has been retail and especially the beauty and fashion industry. At a time like this, beauty and make-up influencers were the ones taking the industry ahead and made hay while the sun shone.

As the pandemic-led fear made people avoid salons, it presented as a golden opportunity for the careers of the influencers to skyrocket as they became experts in the field with most of the digital population following them for self-care.

Influencers have also become an integral part of any marketing strategies that a brand may create for themselves and cannot ignore the huge popularity the influencers hold over their digital audiences.

Digital marketing has become a messiah in disguise for companies as they now seek to reduce marketing spends offline, explore newer online channels, drive greater ROI from it, and follow their customers more closely.

This has created a great need for SEO, CRM, email marketing and digital ads experts as the digital economy can only be expected to flourish.

With many brands pivoting their marketing strategies to focus more on digital platforms, it has resulted in greater demand for professionals with relevant experience and knowledge under their belts.

Covid-19 impacted the education sector immensely as institutions around the world needed to change up strategies to ensure learning continued for students across ages.

Virtual methods of teaching had to be introduced and this created the need for a teaching workforce technologically equipped for the future.

The demand for online teaching is huge as options are limited for educational institutions and having a background in virtual training can prove to be very helpful. So, if you are passionate about teaching, online teaching can be a lucrative career choice.

Freelancing as a career option has especially skyrocketed in the last year as the pandemic forced people to rethink their career strategies and motivated them to take the plunge.

Freelancing or the gig economy opens up an individual to career opportunities in various sectors like content writing, graphic designing, fashion designing videography and photography, communication, coding, and even marketing.

If one has experience or interest in any of the aforementioned sectors, they can easily build/enhance their skills to take it up and build their careers as freelancers.

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With uncertainty looming for professionals all over the globe, it is important for people to amass more skills and diversify their options as a safer bet.

In the current world, flexibility and the ability to pivot tracks will prove to be beneficial and while a career change is never a smooth process, being prepared for it beforehand makes the transition easier.

The world now offers the option of exploring and creating new job roles which will be here to stay in the future.

Adaptability to different work environments, digital literacy, soft skills, and future ready work skills are the answer to the current economic crisis and to safeguarding ones employment status.

- Article by Vanshika Goenka, Founder and CEO of Kool Kanya

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