On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe that there are a lot of people who are cut off from the IT boom > because of their qualification. Unlike most other core engineering jobs, IT > jobs (except a select few) does not require any special skill sets learnt > over a 3/4 year course and if any is required, it can be attained through a > relatively short training. Ahem. Very long reply. ;) I do agree that many IT skills can be acquired on the job. But this is true for any job. Not just IT. I was educated in electronics and I learnt coding only after my second job and after 2 years of working and failing multiple times whenever I had to code. But that lesson was necessary. > Was surprised and laughing when one of my freshers told me that he > was eliminated from a reputed MNC's interview because he had not secured 60% > in his 10th standard school exams. Their loss was my gain. He was one of the > best guys I had and gave me a lot of good output. He was recently hired by > the same company though after the "experience" he had with me. I will not > comment on this because large corporates may have their own reason to do so > however sloppy and lazy it might seem. It was silly no doubt. But then life is unfair and it is good that way for most of us. I am sure no company can have a fool proof recruitment strategy. > Imagine if he is just one case, how many brilliant diploma/arts/science guys > and girls might be benefited. And it is a win-win, it's not that I don't > have my own benefit. I would also clarify that I will never discriminate on > the pay scale for equal jobs based on qualification (but this has raised a > few of problems as "our" people still are not mature enough and believe that > BE's have a royal right to more pay irrelevant to the fact that a BE or a > non BE are providing the same value to our company) BE is BE. BE is the single most important thing in a personality. :) And the college matters too. If you are from a really good college and are not snobbish on account of it you are a jewel, a rare gem. Alas, such gems just like diamonds are very few. Now, it really does not matter what a person learns after BE, but BE is important for me. So I might have to differ from you on that. Sorry. Most of the bizmen I meet in Chennai are not BEs. I wonder why. Perhaps BEs have such an easy life that they never get to learn life... -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
