To get the desired job in the present job market is not easy. Due to recession, professionals are forced to take up jobs that may or may not match their qualification, skill sets or position. Consequently, this makes the race for holding a dream job extremely difficult. In such severe situation you cannot afford to miss even a single opportunity.

Keeping this in view, MeraCareerGuide.Com held a seminar at IIMT College of Management, Greater Noida on 15 September designed for students who are looking forward to their first job. The students present were of first and second year MBA. The one-and-half hour program had many pointers on how students could enhance their efficiency to clinch a desired job offer letter.

 A peak into the lessons taught…

 While  due to recession a fresher's dream of joining the world of work is getting delayed, but here there is something to rejoice for all electronics students who aspire to enter the world of VLSI and do marvel !! Mentor Graphics, world leader of EDA tools is conductinga program Introduction to Verification of Electronic Design and Systems using System Verilog which is all sponsored by Mentor Graphics. The best part is 15 days long program is all free for students.  
Program Description
 
 

• Introduction to Logic Design and Verification (Block level and System Level)

• Introduction to SystemVerilog as a Verification Language

• Introduction to SystemVerilog Open Verification Methodology

• Concepts of Verification Management and Coverage using Questa Verification environment

• B.Tech or B.E. degree graduates in Electronics, Computer Science and Electrical are eligible with a CGPA of 6.5 and above.

• The candidate should not have an offer of joining any company till December 2009

• Short-listedcandidates will be called for a written test in order to qualify forthe course. 

• The test will be held at Mentor Graphics, Noida onSeptember 19, 2009. The selected candidate will have to make his/herown stay arrangements.

"Verification of Electronic Design and Systems using System Verilog” for students whohave graduated from Delhi NCR colleges and who have not yet found placement. The course will be for eight weeks beginning October 19 –December 7, 2009 from 10am to 6pm (Monday to Friday). The program willinclude extensive labs using Mentor Tools and will also include someprojects.

 Some of the Key Modules of the program are:

Program Details:

Eligibility:

Even though the global economic meltdown had little impact on India, we were not aloof from the world for feeling the recession attack, thanks to the Satyam scandal! And now that, we were in the process of recovering from this gigantic human error, we are caught up in obstacles nature has thrown at us. Yes, it is the Swine Flu and the much awaited Indian Monsoon.

Let me give you a quick view of how and why the dreaded  the Monsoon and Swine Flu are acting demons in the betterment of the pink slip pathos.

 MONSOON EFFECT ON INDIAN ECONOMY

60% of Indian Agriculture is monsoon dependent. With rainfall this time being deficient by 45%, the agriculture sector has been hit hard.

Also, post economic disaster, rural India has become the focus for many organizations. But with monsoon showing no sign of rain, the rural income is bound to decrease, which eventually will affect the organization's plans and economic conditions.

Apart from this, a severe problem that bad monsoon is to bring is the rise in the price of cash crops, vegetables and fruits. This is the most dreading consequence of deficient rainfall as the basic needs of people might have to be compromised. This increase in the price of food will cause inflation to go up.

THE SWINE FLU EFFECT ON ECONOMY

Due to outbreak of Swine Flu, the government expenditure on hospitals, prevention and cure for Swine Flu is increasing, which will slowly lead to increase in fiscal deficit.

And not just this, Foreign Institutional Investors, doubtful of the Indian market situation, will withdraw their shares and sell it out which will lead to rupee value depreciation. All this will create an imbalance in the supply chain giving way to decline in GDP (due to lesser economic activities)

Industries To Be Affected By Swine Flu:

Tourism

It is obvious that tourism industry will have major negative affect of Swine Flu as traveling across the globe is slowing down for the fear of Swine Flu. If Swine Flu is not controlled soon, the peak season - October- will see the major disturbance in the Tourism Industry.

Airlines

As the movement of people flying across places will slow down leaving the Airlines business a little less profitable.

Others

Many other sectors will see a minor influence of Swine Flu as it is bringing down production and thus affecting economic activities.

 Admin: The author of the post is a EEE graduate from BITS-Pilani                                                                                                        

 

Some say - 'Its the crisis'..some say - 'Bad Economy'..and some 'Downward trend'...guess what this is all about?..Yes, the current situation of US companies..The Finance, IT, Automotive, and slowly the retail sectors are being hit..And we are heavily knit to their economy...bound so tight that all that happens there, echoes here too!..I am slowly coming across a few people, unemployed, patiently waiting to get employed in the company that hires their skills, and also people yet to gather skills, such as college-freshers..This is nowhere catagory based - Freshers, Associates, Senior Associates, Managers, Subject Matter Experts - the problems persists for people of all spheres..Whatever be it, life goes on..With no major projects coming up for companies here, with very few global clients,with lessening turnovers,the situation worsens for those hiring and for those being hired! 

                                                                                                        

 

Bankrupcies, losing jobs, are some of the instances of the downward trend we can observe.. We all know the fate Lehman Brothers Inc and Merryll Lynch. Citibank and GoldMan Sachs have also reported huge losses. But at one point in time, my own friends had had the craze for grabbing offer letters from the very same companies for the enormous pay packages! There has been a steep transition now..I might as well call it 'The falling Gaussian Curve'..My question is- Is there any alternative to the heavy dependency on economies?..Why are we looking for greener grass on the other side of the fence when our side is as much green? I, pretty well, fall under this catagory too..Hmmm..Enough of theories and current affairs..!

Unsteady environment prevailing, job-security being indefinite, and what not!..Its just a one and a half years of IT journey and I am coming across such sorts of strange and unforseen happenings.. Yes, the transition is never simple. Sometimes, I think of shifting to jobs that are purely of Indian origin and relatively secure; And to live securely upto heart's content with lesser troughs, ; And to strip off the luxury of being in an air-conditioned room!

 To do what you get to do' is way different from 'To do what you want to do'!..And I am still asking myself what I want to do but have found no concrete plan!..Self-realization is the most difficult task of all..Ask Heisenberg, who has his uncertainity principle!. I bet he would be indefinitely uncertain about it as much as he is about his wave 

 

 

 It all started when greed for money overpowered the sense of understanding money. The US investment banks in their overwhelming desire to have more and more money lent easy loans to sub-prime borrowers. Sub prime borrowers are those who capability to repay the loan is uncertain. Subsequently, all Americans - capable and incapable- was now privileged to be a loanee. Evey American now had a home, spent the money he didn't have; all on the loan amount. and like they say too much of anything is too bad, so was in this case. The sub prime borrowers couldn't return the loan to the lender banks, which forced the banks to seize the borrower's mortgaged property. But of no avail. the banks found no buyers to the confiscated properties. eventually, everything got blocked as properties which resulted in no flow of money - credit (money) crisis.

What's amusing is that the concept was followed by almost all the banks across the globe. However, our Indian government banks are known for its conservative nature ( someone who has approached an Indian bank would only know this). Yet, the Indian stock exchange suffered a great loss as foreign investors withdrew their invested amount from the stock exchange. This imbalance use of money led to having 'no money' in the market and this whole process came to be termed 'economic meltdown', which till date is melting many sectors.

You must have a million times, heard people use the Murphy phrase - when things can go wrong, they will; at the worst possible time, and in the worst possible way. Actually, when analyzed closely, one would be surprised to find that the much talked about law by Murphy holds so true in the happenings of the world today. Perhaps, Murphy had to prove his point. The collapse of Lehman Brothers & Merrill Lynch was unexpected but definitely not unattainable. And the ‘possibility factor’ was good enough a factor to motivate Murphy. In the middle of economic chaos he lived up to his theorem by adding Indian Enron corruption to the already dying state of economy. After all, he had to prove his point – things, if they can, go wrong in the worst possible time.

No, Murphy wasn’t ready to fade away so soon. He seemed to be determined to leave his mark in every walk of life – VENI, VIDI, VICI! Following the economy, Recession came to life. Managing homes had already become difficult, and with the raucous recession Murphy once again became all pervading. He scared (continues to scare) the hell out of job-holders and freshers just out of colleges with dreams of holding plush jobs. And why not? He had to prove his point, after all.

But if Murphy is hell bent on proving his point right, the iconic Isaac Newton is no behind, only he is a little laid back ( but, isn’t that’s how he became an icon – laid back in the garden observing an apple fall!). The so called ‘worst situation’ of somebody is ‘the worth situation’ to somebody else. Remember Vikram Jaiswal aka Farhaan Akhtar of Luck By Chance? Well, that’s the reaction Newton gives to Murphy’s action – For every hard luck there has to an equal good luck. It’s just that he waits for Murphy to act first.

And yeh, like Murphy Newton too believes in VENI, VIDI, VICI!