Tips For 2013 Passed outs

2012 has not ended but few lakhs of students has already passed out from the colleges. Some got placed & many are waiting for an interview call. This year has been a dry year in terms of recruitment with companies having not many projects & clients looking at cost cuttings.

But 6 more months from now a few more lakhs of students will be coming out of the college and you could be one of them. The only thing which a final year students would be worried of is his placement & future.

We get queries from the 2013 job aspirants every day like the following,

What is the best thing to do in the final year to get easily placed?

We see many are enthusiastic enough to get a job,but that’s not the only thing required to get placed. Working hard in a wrong direction wont yield any results & this article is specifically written to let the current final year grads know about how to make the most of the available time.

As you are aware of the recruitment pattern, any company would see only three things Aptitude,tech skills & attitude/Comm skills of a candidate. Keeping these in all mind , the current final year grads have to work to equip themselves with the aforementioned skills.

Here is what you can do in the next 6 months,

1. As said Aptitude is the first thing which the employer looks at & no wonder it is the first elimination round in any interview process. Aptitude in general is a measure of Quick learning & you can show that by solving mathematical,analytical problems. Start preparing for the aptitude round right from now. Spend more than 50% of the time on this else you might regret for not doing so.
2. At the end its all about the technology & yes, it is the next round in the interview process. Please don’t waste your time by learning random technologies for months & years which you cant put to use. No employer is interested in the bookish knowledge a student has,rather they would be excited to see any implementations(Projects) with the learned things.

Don’t waste your valuable time making rounds around coaching institutes to learn core java,advance java,ejb,web services,.Net, Big Data etc etc. It will take years for you to learn and master them.