Freshers in IT Industry

Fresh Graduates in IT industry in the current economic scenario

Graduation from the premier institutes of the country brings with it, the confidence of a secure future in the hearts of the youngsters. The campus scenario is also fascinating since last few years. MNC's are visiting to the campus as mass recruiters and offering good salaries. A placement cross 200% which says, on an average, more than two job offers for every candidate. Everything goes well till the final semester exams but as we passes out from the college, the coming years of our life accompanies with them, days and experiences, which we have just heard of from our seniors but hardly ever believed them. We turned out of our colleges, no one to feed in our mouths now, no one to complain ever, professional career is at it' s start, the scene's going to change.

Due to the worst economic crisis of the century, from which the world is still trying to recover, a real hard time for freshers is palpable who just entered the software industry. Many of them have offer letters from more than one companies in their hands but their joining is still in abeyance. The HR's keep on building their hopes and they have to waste time in some of the most crucial months of their careers. Among all these calls and waits, the preparations for the coming competitive exams like CAT and GATE needs to be carried on with proper concern.

The warm welcome :

• Many fresher who have completed their training program are now in fight of getting projects and companies are running short of it. As a result many employees are forced to sit idle without any work, the situation is also termed among them as sitting-on-bench. Few guys who have completed their training in some specific fields say C/C++ or Java are now attending an extended training programme on different fields like mainframe etc coz they have no work.
  
• There are other guys who have sufficient knowledge about programming and other software skills but unfortunately they are floating in wrong boat, they are made to do billing jobs for months or they just keep on reading and forwarding mails for days to remain in the big companies. The fact cannot be denied that in the same or other way, many companies are exploiting the knowledge and the education of the freshers joining them.
• Few guys are said to learn new and very obscure computer languages for the projects. These includes languages which are very task specific and sometimes not compatible with the browsers commonly used. Learning and working on them for months are not counted as any experience by other companies.
• Tests are conducted in many companies during training to keep a record on the progress of the individuals but those who recently joined some big brand companies experienced that the objective of these tests, have changed these days, as now they are used to create solid excuses, to fire out those emplyees, for whom the company is helpless to provide any work. One of my friend working in a reputed software company told that the odds for clearing these tests are 1 out of 100. As a result many hapless newcomers are forced to leave the company without any experience certificate and a tag of "non performers" with them, to search for a new job.
  

Proper Counselling is required at this level and guidance is must. Experts and knowledgeable people can help a lot in showing a right direction to the new-comers. They need to be guided so that they could opt a right path for them, where they are actually needed, where they can met with the jobs, they are adept at and then they will come out with great results and bright futures for them and a stable economic environment for the world ahead.