3 Mistakes to be avoided by 2012 passouts

3 Mistakes to be avoided by 2012 passouts

The year 2012 has been famous than any other year for the big reason of being considered as the end of the world.

Well, that’s not the only annoying thing about the year 2012. Students who have graduated have more reasons to complain about this year because of the economic state of the world & low placements across the industry.

When the whole world is suffering from economic slow down & job cuts , there is nothing that a 2012 pass out can do than cursing the year again

But you can avoid making some common mistakes and save your time & energy.

• Don’t go & join a course just because you have some free time.

Time & Again in all the posts I write, I just talk about this thing. When there is no company which recruits freshers asking for some specific skill set, I wonder why people line up & go for classes.

Mostly it is Java & .net which are famous courses took by the job aspirants, but these are technologies used to build Enterprise software systems running on multiple servers with distributed architecture.

So no small company (well very few does) would handle Java & .Net projects and big companies do not take freshers with specific knowledge, they just ask for freshers.

This all being said, I don’t discourage people who try to learn , all I am trying to convey is that don’t just learn some thing because that you get a placement, instead learn if it is your passion & if you can solve(Implementation) even a smallest of the small problem using that technology.

Consider other alternative technologies before deciding upon learning like PHP, Ruby on Rails etc where there is huge demand in startup’s & mid size companies.

• Undermining the importance of Aptitude & communication skills

While many job aspirants spend a lot of their time preparing technical skills, many do undermine the need for Aptitude or communication skills. The need for analytical/problem solving skills is high in the industry than the technology.

I would put it this way, “Technologies may change over a period of time & it is the analytical/problem skills which are required to solve any problem you face irrespective of the technology”.

So start trying to improve your problem solving skills & analytical skills, you can solve sudoku , puzzles , rubik/magic cube etc to start with. Try to inculcate Out of box thinking rather than the conventional thinking. At times your idea may look crazy, but yeah you have to be crazy at times

Apart from this, you should be able to communicate your idea & this is considered as essential skill.

I often meet people who keep on learning on technology for months and when the opportunity knocks itself they end up failing in the Aptitude or group discussion & they end up not being considered for the Technical Interview. See how sad is all these?

Don’t regret later, make a plan & prepare.

• Don’t think of back door jobs, no matter how much money you have.

I also get queries about back door jobs & if you ask me I would say back door jobs as myth.

Some people are ready to pay any amount of money what ever it takes to get em a job, but they end up sitting in home for years.

Human resources are the key to any organization and so no company would make any kind of provision to let people enter just because that they have money.

If you know some one who entered like that, then you have seen one of the luckiest people in the world & guess what it is difficult for him to sustain.

So to make it simple, work hard with a great plan & who would stop from getting success.

All the very best for your future endeavors & drop in your comments about the article or if you have any queries.

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Author : Venkatesh Thallam

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