All for the dream job

CLIMBING THE LADDER OF SUCCESS: Students are busy with campus recruitments.

GITAM: The academic year 2006 has witnessed a revolutionary breakthrough in the campus recruitments by the IT industries. Never had one expected so many recruitments in the first two months itself.

Companies, which were not even heard of in our brief sojourn in the campus, are approaching with a voracious appetite for students.

What could be the reason for this sudden improvement? Perhaps an unforeseen downpour of projects!! My seniors (mechanical) recruited in the software companies account for only 1/5th of our present number.

But at the end of the day, what effect does this IT boom have on us?

While it could be a dream-come-true for the software streams; for other branches it is a debate to be argued upon. It is a choice between lucre and job satisfaction.

Handsome salaries and attractive incentives are the focal point of software companies.

The ladder of growth is very steep and a person working there for quite a time is destined to be rich.

Notwithstanding all the allurement of the IT industry, a person cannot be sure enough if he could sustain the turmoil and competition.

The breakneck work schedule keeps the employees preoccupied and could lead to debility in the long run."Stress" is another cause of concern which most of the employees are reluctant to admit being affected of.

On the other hand stand core companies (as the terminology goes to indicate a company of one's own branch)-

The ultimate destination of an engineer and being placed anywhere else would make him feel incongruous. A place where a person would feel he is applying what he has learnt and could seek job satisfaction.

But the major criterion for a job nowadays seems to be "growth factor" and "monetay benefits" and the software jobs have an edge over the core jobs in both these respects.

Further aggravating the adversity, the "only one job" policy empolyed by the college managements has left the students with no choice.

Though desperately aspiring for a core job, a person cannot be sure if he could make it when the company comes which is usually towards the second semester.

One cannot wait and brood over his dream of landing into a job of his choice while his peer group settles down.

In this mad man's race for jobs everyone seems to have landed up on the common platform of software industry, where it is the survival of the fittest.

*****Please find below the link to the e-version of this article published in THE HINDU***** 
http://www.hindu.com/edu/2006/09/25/stories/2006092501260400.htm