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Subject: Career Options after B.Tech
Date: 3-Dec-2002
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Question: Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a student of B.Tech Computer science 2nd year from Chennai India. I
wish to plan my future with your valuable advice. I am in a dilemma what
to do on completion of B.Tech. The possible options I am looking are as follows.
- Appearing for civil services examinations and going for IAS or IPS
etc.
- Higher studies in management courses like IIMS or reputed colleges
in India or abroad by appearing CAT exams etc.
- Higher studies in Computer Science or other engineering courses
like IITS or reputed colleges in India or abroad.
I request your advise in the following aspects.
- Please advise me in which direction I should proceed and why, with
your detailed analysis of pros and cons?
- And also I request you to rearrange the options by giving rankings
according to the recent trend (what you think as a counselor is wise to pursue).
Whether it matches to my rankings or not does not matter.
- Regarding management courses, doing business management in India
is better or doing it in abroad? If in India please tell me some institutes
other than IIMs and their mode of selection. If in abroad please specify
the institutes and their mode of selection. If in abroad please specify the
institutes and their mode of selection (fee structure etc.).
- And also I want your advice when I should start preparation for the
above goals?
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Answer: Lets look at things this way:
- Since you are doing your computer science and are intelligent, you
are trying to steer your career your way rather than leaving all things only
for destiny.
- Look at international multinationals. They only look at people from
reputed colleges. Why? Because the selection process and the competition
at entry would automatically put the best brains in to the fore front-runners
and that is what they need, first.
- In jobs, it is more generally not that Indians do get a chance to
manage affairs at foreign locations, though yet there are many instances
that one hears of Indian Managers doing well. The issue is 'how many'.
- Lastly, if there is a natural strength, use it to your gain.
So, since you are in to CS, I feel you should keep two things in mind: One
MS or M Tech, preferably from abroad. And you do not have to look at a full
time study. You can work and 'earn' for your degree. Two is do a job. Actually
speaking, these two options are boiling to one. Job. This is one option that
you did not even look at in your listing.
Look here. You have these four years to yourself to study. Apart from exams,
you actually have no goal to achieve. So you should study the core CS things
such as deep understanding of the OS etc. Know computer in and out. Do not
concentrate on language yet. The basic fundamentals are core to technology.
Languages, applications are ever changing. If I draw an analogy, cover feature
changes of a two-wheeler never revolutionized any thing. It was the four-stroke
engine that changed the two-wheeler world. And that technology too was available
else where in automotive line. Just applied here.
In my mind you should aim for a good job. It will provide you a platform
to nurture your talent. Use these years to know more of computers. What they
have been discovered to do. What more can be done and what more is impossible
today. Why do computers have to look as they look now. Why they have to boot
the way they do now. Why a system hangs. Can it not manage itself in some
other way. If it does hang is it because of limitations of OS or is it some
other situation. These things need study and use of newer ideas to get solutions.
There are many companies that throw money on R&D precisely looking for
these answers. Making things faster, smaller, more reliable. Making them
do more things. And so on. |
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