1. Why few people struggle for an IT job since years .......

What Siba Ram Baral Says .....

It's about people who are searching for job since couple of years but still haven’t got any. If we do a simple analysis, we could discover that the problem lies some where within themselves and most surprisingly the solution too.

The problem : looking for a job with Skill sets like Java, C, C++ or Soft ware Testing and that too without experience.

1. Although interviews for such skill sets happen very frequently, but there use to be very few vacancies and for that crores of applicants use to gather since early morning.
2. Mostly in such interviews the main objective of the interviewers is “ how to eliminate all keeping just few a side “ rather than “ how to select few among all”.
3. In such a case an applicant after fighting thru the huge crowd may get success in reaching the recruiter’s table just to drop the resume or even after a tremendous performance lands up in hearing a common phrase “ We will get back to you “.
4. Interviews for such skill sets also use to be too painful and vague. Although the candidate performs extremely well still he doesn’t get success some times because of so many factors.
5. If some one gets a job also getting a good salary package is far beyond imagination as the competition market is too high.
6. Continuing on such jobs is also full of risk and everyday in the company runs like a nightmare. You need to struggle and struggle day and night till your last breathe to keep your demand in the company.
7. As such skill sets are decade old hence it’s not wise to trust upon them for next 10 years. They may get replaced with advanced user friendly compilers, program editors or even designer windows. If it happens so… you will be of no use to the organization.
8. You can neither demand nor expect a good hike in such line as because there is always some one out side the company looking for job whom the company thinks can do a better job than you and that too with lesser salary.
9. Volume of competition increases every day for such skill set but not the amount of opportunity.
10. There use to be numerous rounds of physical, mental and psychological harassments in the name of interview.
11. You will be never having the privileges of fixing the interview schedule as per your convenience. You have to go to interview with your own expense and trouble.
12. There use to be a huge crowd at the interview venue well before the scheduled time and you need to fight thru it to reach the recruiter’s table …. Just to drop your resume.
13. It’s some times heard that huge crowd is even treated with harsh manners. Companies either cancel such events or call on police for handling the crowd in their own style.
14. Some times a small disturbance in the queue results in stampede where in girls become the ultimate victims.
15. You may face some ridiculous and embarrassing situations that you would have never imagined in your life.

Suggestion / Remedy :

1. Never ever select such a common Skill set ( like Java, C, C++ or Soft ware Testing and that too without experience ) as your career path where in getting a job is almost impossible. Looking for a job in such skill set is like participating in a marathon.
2. Always select a skill set which is rare and unique. ( Example….. Cognus, Eltran, SIEBEL, PeopleSoft, Vision Plus, JD Edwards, SAP, Six Sigma etc.)
3. In such cases you will never face any competition in the market and the opportunities will be ever green for you.
4. You can always demand the salary package of your choice.
5. Remember that such skill sets are futuristic. You can trust on these and still can survive for the next 10 years.
6. During the interview you won’t be facing any challenges or tricky questions as because the interviewer himself may know as little as you know.
7. Even Interview processes for such skill sets are like mere formalities of discussion and hardly happens for 5 to 10 minutes. You will be treated as a supreme guest to the company who wants to meet the Chairman rather than a candidate for interview waiting to meet the interviewer.
8. You will be treated as a king and will be asked for tea, coffee or snacks and will be interviewed inside the chairman’s cabin. There will be hardly one or two rounds of interview.
9. Being in the same city also you can have the aristocracy and privileges of opting for a telephonic interview just by telling that “ You can’t come for Interview as you are too busy”
10. you can even have the craze of collecting offer letters from all the companies that you have dreamt off and then decide which one to join.
11. You will be the highest payee employee in the market. Remember the Top IT guys who sit on piles of billions are not having a skill set so common.

For a technically qualified person the most challenging task is to select a futuristic, career oriented, profession driven career path. A person after passing his Techno professional degrees (like BE, MCA, M Sc ….. ) stands at such a cross road where in he finds numerous career options to choose from. Here in he finds himself to be immature enough to select the best suitable career path for himself.

It's commonly observed that most of the candidates from Orissa after passing their techno professional degrees rush to cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune and there after starts a massive job hunt. It’s true that few gets a job within months or so, but the rest of them struggle for years together but never see the face of success. In such cases if we do a small study what we could find is the problem lies within themselves and no one else and

The basic Problem is ---- Selecting a skill set or platform or domain as career path. It’s commonly observed that people rush to Bangalore in search of job after their degrees but are not too sure with their objectives. They simply get dragged along others and take up Java, C, C++ or even Software Testing as their career path. Here start the Mahabharata of struggle and difficulties.

Never ever select such a skill set for career path which puts you in a big Marathon. We all know that looking for a job with Skill sets like Java, C, C++ or Soft ware Testing and that too without experience is very difficult because there are already lakhs of competitors roaming in the market in search of job. So I would suggest never to run in a race where thousands are already running. You need to overtake all to be the winner. Rather than that always select a race where in hardly one or two people are running. So as the chances of winning will be more. In the same way never select Skill sets like Java, C, C++ or Soft ware Testing and that too without experience as your career path where in you have to struggle a lot, rather select a rare skill set as your career path.

Now if the doubt here is how to Search for a unique skill set …. Just look into jobs sections in News papers and magazines. Look at the skill set section. The word which you don’t understand or never heard off … is the clue and hint to dress up your resume with a gorgeous new uniform of skill.

Hope you all find this to be a lesson and will also feel free to share across similar flavors from your end. Please mail me at sibaram.baral@gmail.com or call me at 9 8 4 5 7 6 0 8 4 8 for communicating any valuable suggestions, advices, issues, concerns and/or inclusion of Information, materials, stuffs and inputs from your end.

Regards
Siba Ram Baral