Why there is a need of a finishing school, anyway?

Typically, I personally believe that we have a very basic issue of taking permission for everything and this is true for our curriculum as well. The same old orthodox method of organizational structure where the issues gets lost without anybody noticing them altogether. The technological world has been moving at a very fast pace and typically it takes no time for any technology to become obsolete. The corporate world has been able to keep up with the pace but unfortunately our education system has not. That is where the finishing schools have come up. It is something better for the students who while joining the course are given great promises of a secure job after completing the course but the reality is something really different and shocking.

This is what I believe is the problems with the colleges:
1) Industry certified and accredited curriculum
2) Experienced faculty to deliver these courses
3) A very close association with the industry
4) Close monitoring of Projects assigned
5) Lack of career counseling at the very beginning of their course
6) Soft Skills

Only effective, industry accepted education can solve India's employment crisis and finishing schools try to bridge that gap.

Seminar on Digital Signature, its Authentication and related Cyber Laws

We have launched another expert seminar on 'Digital Signature, its Authentication and related Cyber Laws', first of this series is happening on 24th May 2008. The main objective of this seminar is the give an overview about these technologies to students and their usages. Digital signatures have been around for a while but still many people although having heard of it do not know its exact implementation and usage, this series aims to impart that knowledge.

The seminar is going to be conducted by an Expert who is also a renowned academician and has presented papers in various conferences. More information relating to the seminar will be available on the website very soon.

Slew of new courses coming!!

It gives me immense pleasure to notify you all that there are a number of new courses that we will be launching very soon. To give you all an idea, there will be a course on networking, LAMP and Multimedia. All the courses as per our company policy has been designed after getting inputs from the industry and the experts who are going to deliver the courses are Industry Professionals. There has been a rapid growth in the demand for experts in respective fields who are equipped with the above mentioned technologies and it is our strong belief that they will be absorbed by the industry.

We continuously seek recommendations and suggestions for courses and seminars, so please suggest. If there is anything else that you would like us to implement please feel free to notify us.

Salary hike for Freshers!!

I am very delighted while writing this post; delighted because I just read a report on Rediff where it said that Infotech freshers can expect a 40% pay hike this financial year. The report states that virtually every IT company is increasing their headcount by exorbitant numbers this year. Most of the hiring if not all is going to happen via Campus Interviews and the companies will all be hunting to grab a share of the best talent pool available.

As a result of which there will be a real shortage of employable manpower in the very near future. So if any fresher is employable as per industry standards then he is very likely going to be snapped very soon by big MNC's be it National or International.


Source: rediff.com

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We believe that nobody is perfect and that implies to us as well. But, we can always strive to achieve greater perfection but continuously improving ourselves. So we have created 2 really short surveys, which we believe can help us get better insights on what our students/prospectives think.

I welcome you to please take this 2 simple and very short surveys and equip us with your valuable feedback. I personally promise you that all your suggestions will be considered and implemented as per accordance and depending on other conditions.

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Seminar Details

It gives me immense pleasure to launch Indian Youth's Employability. Check out the details and please make it convenient to attend. See you there.

Awareness Seminars

A dream come true for me personally. For the first time we have launched a series of Awareness seminars for anybody who would like to know more about IT. We have realized an issue among students is that when they are studying they are still not sure what kind of a professional they would like to become.

Some of the issues that we found out are as follows (I am sure there are a lot others):

• Incorrect guidance from the faculty (not all but most of them)
  
• The faculty is itself not aware of the industry trends
  

The actual person who suffers is the individual. What happens is that when they go to the industry looking for jobs, their resume looks good but when they have to perform because of their lack of practical/technical skills they are not able to perform on job.

The main aim of these seminars will be to pass information to the students and also that they have a platform to ask any questions they have. The first seminar that we have kicked of is focussed on discussing the country's manpower employability, which I believe that the students are definitely unaware of. For more information send us an email or give us a call and we would like to have all you students attend them.