Career Counseling

Sir, I have completed my engineering in the stream of ECE with 84% am in search of a job. Now I want to do .NET course to enter in to IT field. please suggest me relevant courses to be done.
– Rajesh, Chennai.

Answer: First you must get clarity on what you want to do. If you really interested in IT field, then evaluate yourself to identify whether you are good / interested in analysing the situations, coding, testing, etc. Never join such street side institutions just because of someone in your network joined that course. Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/) offers world’s best courses, online, for free. Think of domain and choose as per your interest.

For example, if you are interested banking application development, think of a customer requirement and try to develop small products on your own and discuss the same with your friends / experts. There are many technical forums where you can get answer from like minded programmers. Also you can use Quora (http://www.quora.com/) to get expert/other’s opinion on the doubts you have.

A students queried, I completed my BTech in EEE, got admission into JNTU Hyderabad for M.Tech under GeoInformatics and Surveying Technology. But I dont have any idea on the course, future, and job opportunities. Please help me whether is it good to proceed irrespective of my background (EEE) or not to.
– Radha Krishna

Answer: Dear Radha Krishna, this course at JNTU is well-planned curriculum, which is a blend of theory, practice, on field learning and customised software development. Occasionally, experts from Survey of India and NRSC Scientists conduct field trainings, lectures, seminars and workshops. All these contribute to enhanced learning in students.

Students from non-civil engineering background like you initially face problems. However smart students catch up pretty soon. Geoinformatics is a fast growing field and has great potential. It is quite promising in terms of research in areas like natural resource management, disaster management and earth sciences.

Coming to placements, mostly, private organisations like Google, TCS, Infosys, InfoTech, Wipro, Capgemini, ESRI and Rolta conduct recruitments and hire these students. Government organisations provide good opportunities to professionals in geoinformatics. They are typically absorbed as JRF, SRF and scientist/engineers. They go through the induction process after they are selected.