Or are you in an illusion that free industrial training is a reality?

Think again!!

I have met dozens of IT students who went through such training, with dreams of becoming ‘Software Engineers’ only to end up in some operational jobs with the likes of technical support executive in some BPO company or a computer operator in some retail store just to keep up their living expenses or working on SEO projects which can be done without any technical skills.

It has a huge disappointment when I have attended technical interviews of fresh IT students claiming to be IT Engineers, only to realize how a faulty choice in their industrial training has turned their careers upside down. What could have been a smooth take off turns out to be a crash and burn situation at the start of their careers.

The 70% attrition rate can be attributed to this one reason. The 6 months when students are to be taken though the actual thing that they would do as Software professionals, they are put on work that is completely irrelevant.

While in training institutions, there is no exposure to Live Projects, I have interviewed so many students who got trained from there that I am convinced about their incapacity to create Software Engineers.

As they say, NOTHING IN THIS WORLD COMES FOR FREE, the myth of free training is truly a myth!

There are a lot of phonies out there claiming to provide free training to IT students promising to turn them in Professional Engineers, only to end up using these students in their revenue generation activities. These students are in no way trained to make software, so they are put on company work that is not so technical. The half hearted effort of these companies to show the trainees that they are actually training them, does not make them EXPERTS in the they field they so desired to be in the first place be it an Expert in .NET, Java,  C/C++ or other IT fields.

And when they are dumped out of the IT industry in the form of attrition, they could lose their career! They may end up losing direction or years to actually start on their careers.

The bottom line…

These 6 months are a Gigantic element in shaping your career. If you are concerned about this one thing, YOUR CAREER, make the right decision. Find the right place.

About Author:

Aamir Mir is the Training and Placement manager arranging seminars and workshops in different colleges and universities under EDGE(Training and Placament Program) at NSPL, IT Company situated in Amritsar, Punjab.

To read more articles on industrial training, visit www.nsplonline.com

SUCCESS DEMYSTIFIED

[ SEMINAR THEME ]

The central theme of the seminar was SUCCESS in life. The speaker tried to form a link between  ‘SUCCESS’ and ‘A BURNING DESIRE TO ACHIEVE’

[ TIMING AND VENUE ]

Training Lab at Nest Software Private Limited, Amritsar.

Date: 16^th August, 2008. Timing: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

[ SPEAKER ]

Aamir Mir (NSPL)

[ ACTIVITIES ]

It was a beautiful Saturday morning when a small group of talented men had gathered at the Training lab. The beginning was slow but it soon gained pace. The occasion marked the beginning of a new phase of development of the members of EDGE.

The gathering adopted a setup of an interactive seminar where seminar delivery was not the only issue. As the name suggests, the audience had ample opportunity to clarify their doubts through a lot of interaction during the seminar.

The central theme of the seminar was SUCCESS in life. The speaker tried to form a link between  ‘SUCCESS’ and ‘A BURNING DESIRE TO ACHIEVE’ – with real life examples. He focused on the importance of an aim and a purpose in life. Quoting Thomas Edison’s words, “I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”, he directed their attention towards the importance of a ‘Burning Desire’. He said, “A burning desire is the starting point of all accomplishments. Just like a small fire will be put out by a slow breeze and a large fire spreads faster with the wind, a weak desire dies easily while a strong desire grows stronger in the middle of failures and all adversities.

Towards the end of the session, everyone had a chance to come on stage and speak their mind and the feedback suggested that the event turned out to be a successful first step.

[ CONCLUSION ]

The participants went home with a task in their mind. That is, to think deeply and make a decision about their long term goal in life as a first step towards living a life that is a success.

[ NEXT SEMINAR ]

Date: 30^th August, 2008.

To participate in the coming seminars, email us at hr@nsplonline.com with “EDGE-Seminar” in the subject line.

Or

Call us at +91 92165 32165

To know more about EDGE, please visit www.nsplonline.com