Recession or economic problem in any form would bring down the employment opportunities. Especially in countries like India, where millions of engineers are working on foreign projects are always at risk for any change in economy of the world will affect their career path immediately.
This year is really a bad beginning for freshly passed out engineers. They are coming out of their colleges only to face the grim reality of life. Most of the offer letters given in the campuses have been detained for reasons well known. I really have a soft corner towards bright engineers who are unable to explore their hard earned knowledge because of economic slowdown.
I work for a small company. A new company. We do not need engineers in large numbers. However we need engineers to work for our clients. So we have employment opportunities. But unfortunately most of the engineers are not "employable". I personally conducted interviews where I found the knowledge acquired by our engineers are abysmally low. The tragedy is most of the engineers are not ready to invest their time either to update their knowledge or to gain more exposure by involving themselves in real projects. Our engineers are not knowledge hungry. They are only money hungry. Though recession has played a role in denying our engineers their right to work, one can not blame only on that. Our engineers should introspect. During recession, in fact the industry demand more. So engineers need to be prepared more. And more over most of the engineers I have seen are all introverts and suffering from acute inferiority complex. Their body languages and attitudes are poor and requires through cleansening.
I appeal the fresh engineers change their mind set. Nothing can be fetched by this lethargic attitude. Instead think engineering is a 5 year course, not a 4 year course. Learn more. Explore more. Heavily invest your time on exploring the things. Next year companies will be at your back, I promise.
