Choose your career wisely it is imperative for jobs perspective

Follow your passion, not of your                              parents, not of your                                                                teachers,......YOUR's

If you want to stay happy, then the selection of the right career is imperative.

 In case, you land yourself up in the wrong job, then you will be wasting half your energy in hating the job and that would not be good for your career.

Though there are many important factors in choosing a career, the most vital one would be going along with your passion and interest. Picking a wrongful career might help you earn good, but you will never be able to enjoy your work no matter what.

Nowadays,   engineering is one of the most important common career choices in India and the alarmingly high number of engineering colleges and students is the clear indicator of that. The ratio of the number of engineers produced in India is inversely proportional to the number of jobs generated for these professionals.

Looking at the number of engineers coming out every year the question that arise in everybody minds are, does India need so many engineers?? ....are they all employable.???.

Parents invest their lifetime earned money just to see their sons and daughters getting degree in engineering they think that jobs are easily available for engineers, but that is not reality. *It's a high time for parents to stop running behind engineering degree.*

*USA produces around 1 lakh engineers per year for a $16 trillion economy.*

*India produces 15 lakhs engineers for a $2 trillion economy.*

The earlier mass recruiting sector was Manufacturing. It used to recruit from the core branches like Electrical, Mechanical, Civil etc. But, Manufacturing is relatively stagnant at 17% of the GDP. So the core branch placements have become very difficult.

The more recent mass recruiter was the IT sector. It grew from scratch to almost 5% of the GDP in a short time. IT Employed millions of engineers.

Now, IT is also saturating. Only good, skilled IT Engineers are in demand.

If you look at the sectoral composition of Indian economy, most of the sectors do not need engineers. Tourism is 10% of the GDP, does not require engineers. Financial sector, Trade, Hotels and Restaurants do not require engineers. Requirement of engineers in Health, Education, Agriculture is also negligible.

*More than 50% of the GDP has no role for Engineers.* Still most of Indian youth are becoming Engineers. The situation is not sustainable .

Demand is low while supply is high. Over and above this, skill level of an average engineer is poor, almost its non-existent in many cases. If we leave aside the top 100–200 colleges, most fresh engineers have no idea of what they studied. Ask a fresh mechanical engineer, can s/he design a simple frame?

Today the situation is that most engineers are working in a field that has no connection to what they have studied in the college. This is a waste of resources.

Engineering degree does not come cheap. It costs about 10-15 lakhs. For poor parents, its a huge burden. When their son / daughter is not able to secure a job, they are devastated.

For the nation, you can calculate the loss. Leave around 1 lakh engineers that NASSCOM says are employable. The rest 14 lakhs have each wasted 10 lakhs of fees. That totals to around $20 Billion. Almost equal to the Government’s spending on healthcare. Over this, there is loss of human capital.

India need to replan the whole engineering education system. Government need to cut down on the number of colleges and improve the quality in the rest.

*Also students should explore other career options than everyone becoming Engineers.*

When it comes to education, a multitude of options are available today! From Aviation, to Hotel Management, Short Term Programs to big movie production courses, Data science, cyber security, Information Security, Cloud Technology Designing, Indian Armed Forces, Animation and VFX, Digital Marketing, Film Making, Technology Courses like SQL, PHP, Big Data, C, C++, etc. and much more!
For a majority of courses like these, there are entrance exams too, such as the NATA, CEED, NID entrance, NIFT entrance, NDA entrance, MBA Entrance, Hotel Management entrance, CET, NEET and many more! Here, the right training goes a long way in getting your child admission to their dream institute! *Do you know what are the top career tracks of 2019 other than engineering??* See the following list.

1. Animation, VFX and Multimedia

2. Fashion Design, Event Management and Interior decoration.

3. Aeronautical and Aviation

4. Film making, Script Writing and Acting.

5. IT, cloud and data science.

6. Networking, information security.

7. Beauty, Modelling and Cosmetology

8. Fitness, dietitian and nutritionist

9. Foreign languages.

10. Music and Dance.

So, please share this with your relatives /friends / 12th pass students and help them in planning their education and career appropriately than madly running after engineering admissions!!
                       

                                                                        

                                                           By - Ashutosh