Opportunities after B.Tech

The last decade has seen a
tremendous change in the
attitude of people towards
their careers. Gone are the
days when the only choices we
had after completing school
were Engineering, Medicine,
Chartered Accountant, B.Com,
and Law besides a few others.
Today's generation has
endless career options open in
front of it (from Nuclear
Scientist to DJ). However, this
presentation certainly is
helping hand to decide your
career after B.Tech
Introduction:
Before we go any further and
talk about Career Planning,
let's just look at the change
in the job scenario in the last
decade:
• Growth of service sector,
especially IT. In spite of the
recent recession in the US
economy, IT has been growing
at an explosive rate with the
requirement for skilled
manpower in this sector
desperately falling short of
demand. As a result, countries
that face such a shortage are
busy recruiting manpower (on
work permits) from countries,
which have an adequate
supply.
• In this era of global village, a
person today is a global
citizen going and living where
his/her career aspirations
take him/her. One's country of
birth is no longer the default
choice to pursue a career in.
Thus, we have people born in
one corner of the world
migrating and pursuing
successful careers in another
part of the world.
• Knowledge about Information,
Communication and
Entertainment, commonly
referred to as the ICE Age has
become increasingly important,
rather inevitable for the
students, specifically with the
onset of IT.
• The focus today is on
acquiring multiple skills and
cross functionality rather
than specializations: Today
organizations are not made up
of different departments each
of them having a focused task
and a limited role; instead
today they are made up of
teams. These teams consist of
people who although have
specialized skills but have to
synergize their efforts in
achieving a common goal.
• Liberalization, Privatization
and Globalization (LPG) are also
opening new opportunities for
different people. Procedures
like deli censing encourage
entrepreneurial activity, which
leads to a lot more people
taking initiative and exploiting
their talents to their fullest
potential. It is astonishing
how many 21-year-old
millionaires exist today and it
is anybody's guess how many
more are expected tomorrow.
• Increasing presence of
women in the working force
plus increasing presence of
women in areas traditionally
considered male bastions for
e.g. the armed forces.
• As the standard of living is
increasing throughout the
world; people are moving away
from pure monetary
considerations while
considering a career. True,
monetary considerations are
still very important, but the
weight age of other factors
like emotional satisfaction,
spiritual fulfillment etc. is
increasing. Furthermore
acceptance of these factors in
a career decision is universally
increasing and today a parent
is more considerate and open,
if his/her teenager states the
desire to become a DJ, instead
of a Chartered Accountant.
• Increase in pay packages plus
increase in working hours but
with increased flexibility.
• It has been propounded by
most of the management
gurus that emphasis of the
next decade would shift from
design and technology to
happiness and aesthetics,
clearly indicating the trend
that one's job should match
one's potential and interest
rather than be decided on
one's whims and fancies and
dictates of peers and the
available norms. Consequently
there has been increased job/
career switching for various
reasons ranging from growth
prospects to personal factors
like need for creativity etc.
What does it all mean and
where does it lead?
Simply put, with so much
happening so quickly, most of
us do not know what to do.
Taking the information
mentioned above into
consideration and other
factors like Parental Pressure,
Peer Pressure, Environmental
and Social Norms, the issue
(i.e. your career decision)
gets all the more complicated.
Another very crucial need also
exists and that is an
opportunity to identify and
then develop those traits of
your personality, which with
respect to today's scenario is
absolutely necessary
irrespective of one's
profession. Some of these
traits are the ability to work
in teams, leadership,
creativity, communication
skills etc.
This simply means that there
is definitely a need for one to
go through a process, which
will not only enlighten and
inform the individual with
respect to the various career
options, but will also be a
journey of discovery of one's
own Interests, Aptitude and
Personality which are the very
critical components of any
career decision. Added to this,
one also needs to identify
areas of personal development
and needs to work on them
before embarking on his/her
career roadmap.
So, it is necessary for one to
decide their career. Now that
you have entered into B.Tech.
So, now you have to start
looking into your future.
Study or Job ?
There are two options you
prefer after you complete your
B.Tech degree. If you are
economically efficient and
don't need a job, it is better
you go for your further
studies. A specialization will
always earn you more salary
as well as priority during
interviews and of course
sound grip over subject.
Otherwise you can find some
job.
Further Studies:
If you prefer to continue to
studies, you can do Post
graduate courses and then
obtain a Ph.D. You have lots of
options during this P.G course
like M.S/ M.Tech, IAS/IPS,
Navy/NDA and Finance related
courses like MBA.

Posted in: Opportunities after B.Tech