Name: Mohit Jain Batch:
2017, ECE, JECRC
Post:
Data Engineer Company: Big Data Biz Viz
In this article I am going to talk about
the importance of four years of engineering. Believe me this four year ofengineering are the most crucial time of your life. Technology is growing very
fast and at the same time is changing rapidly, and still we are learning years
back concepts, reading the outdated syllabus (not actually outdate, it is base
of entire engineering, but in today’s world we must learn to advance level)
during most important four years of our
lives. And in a blink of moment these four years vanishes.
So what should one do to make most
of this time, to learn something worthy, to sustain in real world?
Let me start from starting -
Why
Engineering?
·
One thing all the students should
understand about engineering that it is just not a degree; Engineering really
means developing something creative, solving real life problems by using the
technology. But after coming into college students’ loss their interest toward
engineering, most of students get confused about their career, many want to do
something but never get a right direction. And Many of the students may be
having inferiority feeling because it is RTU not IIT.
·
Most of the students choose engineering
because of society trend (the rat race), family background (because other
sibling and cousin did engineering and because of that only you choose
engineering), and some had thought nothing to do that’s choose engineering.
Things
one should certainly do in their engineering –
Ø Maintain a Good percentage
(80+) – For good job
opportunities, For Masters (MBA, MS).
Ø Join any technical club – to keep
on learning and strengthening your profile.
Ø Publish Research
Paper - For good job
opportunities, For Masters (MBA, MS).
Ø Take part in various events organized
in college (Especially technical events).
Now
What?
You have two ways; first do nothing just
pass the exams and pass out with engineering degree. Or Put your time, energy
and money (which you already spending) in right direction, learning new technologies,
work real time project, follow your true passion (anything – dancing, singing,
writing, playing anything) to extreme limit to convert it into a career.
These
are some steps one can follow –
i.
First and foremost thing start
valuing your education and exploring the real life implementation of the
engineering you are studying. Because
today even though I am at good position, doing good in my job but still I
really want to go back to college because I have realized that I could had have
done much better things in college life if I valued those four years seriously .
ii.
After coming in co-operate world I
have realized one thing ‘Sooner you start the better’. So better you start
getting serious about your life, your career, and your goals as early as
possible.
iii.
If you don’t have what is your
goal, what you truly passion about, then explore about new technologies through
internet, explore yourself, take part in college clubs to find out your real
passion.
iv.
Once your get an idea even a vague
one about what you really want to do, just start working on it, give your 100%.
Believe me, may be you do not get a success, you start losing your interest but
you will be a having a great experience and time to try new things.
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As Per my understanding I have categorize the career options 3 major categories as shown above –
1.
Jobs
– Jobs
are considered as end goal of engineering, because of the recession around us
and rapidly increasing unemployment. These four years fly away in tension of
job only. But believe me there is much more you can do and achieve better
opportunities in life. And by time core job are decreasing as a result all the
engineers (CS, IT, EC, Mechanical, Civil etc.) are working in software
companies. Let me bifurcate jobs in
other subcategories
Note – Jobs are still there in core companies but they look
for great technical skills and practical knowledge and experience.
i.
Private
Job –
· After
engineering you may go for private jobs. Many companies come to our college for
campus placements. But by the time numbers of placements are decreasing due to
higher technical demand and weak condition of industry.
· Most
of the companies which comes for placements drives are IT companies, but very
few provide a decent package and good work(in many companies after joining
people work as a QA or they are on bench for most of the time).
What should you do?
First
of all try to find out your interest and then explore about the industry of
same field. Because once you get clear about what you are passionate about, it is
easy to find the work (job) you want. Talk to seniors who are at good position
in companies (which are working on emerging technologies).
Let
give brief you roles in IT companies-
Ø Software Engineer
– People who develops software and applications. Their job in more about
programing and logical thinking. For becoming a good software engineer you must
have sound knowledge of any of Programming language (Java is used mostly). See, Programming Language is just a way to
implement a solution as an application , the most Important thing is your
logics and implementation.
Skills
Required – C /C++ /Java , Data Structure and Algorithms(
DSA) .
Note
– Data Structure and Algorithms are most crucial element. If you have sound knowledge of data Structure
you can crack any technical interview of any company.
Ø DevOps – This
is also very important job role in any IT company. Their job is take care of
deployment of code on various environments and related Operations. It is again
a very good role to choose as career.
Skills
Required - C /C++ /Java, Linux, AWS (cloud devops
specific).
Ø QA – QA
test the software created by developers. QA jobs are not consider as good but
if you are working on automation testing then it is really good , you will be
getting paid well.
Skills
Required – Basic Programing, Selenium (automation
test), and analytics Skills.
There
are other fields as well – networking, security, operations etc.
Apart
from these jobs now data analytics jobs are increasing rapidly, we may be
categorize as below –
Ø Data Scientist – This
considered as coolest job of 21th century, their job is write
algorithms on top data and provide prominent solution using data. I suggest you
to read about this role by yourself, because it is quite interesting.
Skills
Required - R/Python,
SQL, Machine Learning, and Data mining.
Ø Data Analyst – These
are people how analyze the data and provide deep insights about the data. Again
read about it on Google.
Skills
Required – Excel, Macros, SQL, ETL, R/Python for
data wrangling and data mining.
Ø Data Engineer – These
are people who develop and maintain the technologies seamless flow of data.
Again read about it on Google.
Skill
Required – SQL, Java, Scala, Sparksql, Data Pipeline Creation.
I have talked about the main roles;
apart from these roles are many other profiles available. You should start
exploring as soon as possible.
Apart
from It Jobs there are also Core jobs available – What is required is advance
technical skills and exploring the opportunities by yourselves.
ii.
Government
Jobs –
Many
of engineers prepare for government jobs, in my opinion one should start
preparing about the government jobs as soon as possible. Because the time you
pass out from college, you must have job in your hand.
Ø In
First year itself, explore all the government available and start preparing for
them, do not delay in that because after college there will be high pressure
about job.
2.
Startup/Entrepreneurship/Free
lancing – If
have that spark in you that you want to do something of your own, these four year of college are golden
period for you because –
· You have four year to learn any
technologies and business model to work upon.
· You should work under some startup
(may be part time) to learn how the echo system work.
· You should focus on problems
(social and economic) and create effective solution as your startup.
Any
One interested in doing any startup can reach me out anytime for discussing
their ideas. I know people who can help
you creating you startup.
Freelancing
– Learn
technologies and start working as freelancer. Freelancing will put you in right
direction toward your career and will help in improving your profile as well.
3.
Masters
– Many
of the students go for master after their engineering.
A. MBA – If
after engineering you want to pursue MBA, you should –
i.
Maintain good percentage in your engineering
ii.
Publish research papers.
iii.
Start preparing as early as possible.
iv.
Take part in various completions to
improve your profile.
v.
Explore Various Exams, College and
courses related to MBA.
B. MTech. – If
you have deep interest and want to pursue MTech., then GATE examination is the best
way.
i.
Maintain good percentage in your engineering
ii.
Publish research papers.
iii.
Start preparing as early as possible.
iv.
Take your study serious and start
preparing from first year itself.
C. MS(GRE) - If you have a dream to
go abroad and do MS there, For that you will have to pass exams like GRE, GMAT,
TOEFL ,IELTS .
i.
Maintain good percentage in your engineering
ii.
Publish research papers.
iii.
Start preparing as early as possible.
iv.
Take part in various completions to
improve your profile.
v.
Start improving your English as it plays
import role in these exams.
That’s
All from My Side. Guys get serious about your career ASAP. And for any advice
start asking your faculties/friends/parent/seniors from today itself.
Because these four years of engineering can change your ‘Entire Life’.
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