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"Recession", "Lay-offs", "No Sal Increments", "Cost Cutting"... ... These are few terms which we are bored of tuning our ears for the past couple of years, the corporate world is exploring all feasibilities of reducing the cost at nook and corners, well does this mean that the grand-children of Aryabhatta & niece/nephews of Vinod Khosla should either hit the bed or be satisfied with fullfilling every day Idlis and Chappathis? A recent summit by NASSCOM says the 75% of our Engineering and 90% of Non-Engg graduates are useless when it comes to Industry requirement. Why is it? Come one folks, it high time we gotta review ourselves and just play a devil's advocate here...

Somewhere at the corner of my RAM, i could flash the data of my past; those are the years of late 90s to early 2000s, every day a whiz kid is exposed, the candidates hired in the corporate sector knows what they are expected in, most of the graduates came out with excellent projects even in their Visual Basic and MS-Access, they burned their mid-nite oils in developing new codes and packages, though it was not taught at their schools, the computers are the wand and the software is their magic, above all -- they chose the right attitude which are broad and open to feedbacks. The reward was certain in terms of hefty packages for all their hard work and smart efforts.

My dear friends...!!

Choose the right attitude of learning the subject outside the books from u'r schools and lean u'rself to the computers to learn the new technologies. Though u think this recession is a set back to the industry, i would say this the best time to learn new tech and to keep pilotting those. In reality we haven't faced any recession it's only a slow down which in turn made us to streamline the structure every where even in terms of pay checks and it does provides u good amount thatz required a lot more to u'r survival.

Don't u just keep boasting with u'r high scores in B.E or MBA grads in papers, coz those are nuthin when comes to industry. I agree the basic academics has to be changed, but those are not in the immediate reach. Hence instead blaming the system let's get on to the track and prepare ourselves to the industry and prove the world again, that we will be sustaining on to our growth with pride...

It's high time for us to act and we still can't keep ourselves bounded only to support and testing projects in the industry, coz we are more capable on designing and developing new and changing business needs of the world. Remember... Production Support can never be a bread and butter for a matured organization, it's a part of our daily activities similar to your every morning activities to keep u'r system up in running... we gotta move on to strategic projects which could make our live easier... and we will... and Come on young India... Shangai is steering, Buffalo is gearing... are we still gonna be the hare at the race..?