On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 15:31 +0530, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > There is no requirement > > > on educational qualifications - we have a policy against it. Any > > background > > > after 10+2 is OK. > > > > Could you clarify? > > > > > 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. > > 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. > > 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) I fully agree with this logic /approach .. here is my experience during my early years in running a small software development centre I hired one guy who was just a 10th with some diploma as a data entry operator,was a keep learner then team lead gave him some books and asked him to do some very basic exercises from the dbase books.. over the years he lead a team of a few BE's and MCAs and today working as a AGM with a leading MNC during the time he just managed to have a BCOM degree against his name.He was just one of my many experiments with fancy qualification tags in my 18 _ years in IT industry
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