Talk on Career Orientation

Prof.K. Shyam Prasad Sir had addressed the gathering and presented the presentation throughout the span of time. The following are the key points of the presentation.

After B.Tech, students have 2 opportunities as Job, Higher Studies.

 Job:

• In general jobs are of 3 types as Core jobs, IT jobs and Business or entrepreneur skills.
• Advantages of Core Jobs were discussed and requirements of core jobs like technical knowledge were stressed.
• CSS and CPT training classes are important for jobs.
• If we had got On campus job, don’t neglect other jobs in OFF campus. It’s better to try them.
• Sir had stressed on mini projects and their important role in placements.
• Identify the area of interest and research groups.
• Maximum number of jobs is on software side. Recently core jobs are also increasing.
• Solving puzzles to develop analytical skills is very useful in Debugging and software testing.
• Statistics shows that, in software, we will retire at 40 years.
• Basic requirement for software job is C language. It’s better to have knowledge in C++, JAVA, DBMS etc.
• The important thing required for software job is sitting in front of computer for long hours.
• Prepare to write NAC-TECH. This is All India Level Exam for IT companies.
• Rather than core and IT jobs, other issue in jobs is establishing a company i.e, becoming an entrepreneur.
• Planning for workshops will help to get the entrepreneur skills.
• Organisation, planning and managing are the important things useful for entrepreneur skills.
• The other important category of jobs is Civil services, Air Force, Navy and Army.

 Higher Education:

• This is the best for students how are cooking for research oriented jobs in industry and academics.
• For higher studies, we have paths like M.Tech, MS, MBA etc.
• For having admission in IIT’s and NIT’s student should have a rank below 600 in GATE.
• For MS. Students should have good academics of more than 75% and GRE score of 300+.
• Managerial jobs for MBA will help to have entrepreneur skills and facilitates for carrier change.
• IT’s better to go through CEO’s , GM’s profiles of a company that we are going to place.