Saturday 23 October 2021

2021 Campus Hires! (2018-22 Batch) The Great Resignation! What should be your Response?

Dear Accomplished and Aspirants

A race run, a dream job landed, a little victory…It’s one of life’s great joys to you and to us to see you accomplish what you have been hoping for and working toward.

You started this run 5 to 7 years ago (Foundation+Intermediate), dreaming for IIT-JEE/Engineering in Reputed Institutions! The single point agenda was to crack the rank! Many of you could accomplish that objective and reset your goal to get a Placement or GATE or CAT or Starting on Your Own.

First in the line comes, Placement! This gives morale boast and kick start to aim better and bigger!

Thanks to the Institution’s Placement Department Coherent efforts, your sincere sweat & god gifted intelligence and upbeat favourable market conditions, today your way looks bright and blossoming.

Congratulations to all who landed into job! We are equally confident for the rest as they could land easily as the Land looks highly fertile for next 3 quarters across the globe.

No doubt, you need to enjoy this moment and celebrate the time!

Having said that I would like to give piece of advice. Please heed this if it makes sense else ignore this intelligence!

2021 Job Market is witnessing different situation. The Great Resignation, also known as the Big Quit, is the ongoing trend of employees voluntarily leaving their jobs, from spring 2021 to the present, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Top IT companies witness an “all-time” high and record attrition rate. Analysts predict that The ‘Great Resignation’ is likely to continue, as 55% of Americans anticipate looking for a new job!

Reasons are many but predominantly The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed workers to rethink their careers, work conditions, and long-term goals.

High attrition in the industry is opening the door for the fresher! From Amazon to TCS to Infosys to Wipro, India’s IT sector is in hiring spree! This is good news for you and for us.

Having said that down the line after 1 year or 1.5 years, it might lead to correction. You might ask what happens during the correction process!

Have you heard about, Winnowing?  It is the process used to separate the rice from hulls. It is to put the whole rice into a pan and throw it into the air while the wind blows. The light hulls are blown away while the heavy rice fall back into the pan!!

Winnowing in IT hiring means, people with decent coding skills, good communication skills, and team building culture remain back in the pan, rest becomes hulls! You cannot ignore it.

On top it, IT industry is going through transformative process. As of today, we have following roles:

-       Visionary IT Architects,

-       coders who help in the achieving this vision,

-       repetitive coders who use these products and build pipeline,

-       People Managers who manage emotions

-       Sales

However, Industry is slowing moving towards Low Code and No Code Platforms. The job of repetitive coders is diminishing. Given an opportunity, they are the first to get eliminated. Now you have a choice to make what type of programmer you want to be!

Next 2 year is highly critical for your batch as Winnowing might take place right after Great Resignation process! Don’t overprice yourself, it is the end of your career. I am not saying join low paying job. If you get a job now, try to stick to the same organization for some time, as companies are waiting for an opportunity for the correction. Great Resignation is causing a lot of stress to companies and they are serious about it. Don’t get trapped into the package mania.

It will not help us to learn. Let’s take an example. You joined a company X in Jan 2022 as Intern and later as converted to FTE in June. Here is the process

-       You need to understand company culture,

-       You need to go through training process,

-       You need to adjust with your manager & team,

-       You need to be comfortable with your customer team

-       You need to be familiar to master with the technology

-       You need to adhere to the quality process adopted

-       At the same time, you need to start making your family happy and make a new life!

If you join Company Y in a Year or 2, you need to repeat all above steps at a cost of Package. How hard it is for you and for your family. Think about it and make a wise step if it is absolutely necessary. For e.g. there is a famous Harvard University Quote –"People don't quit a job, the saying goes — they quit a boss"(https://hbr.org/2018/01/why-people-really-quit-their-jobs)

The immediate 3 tasks for all you for the next 2 months (Nov-2021 and Dec 2021)

-     Develop 1 end to end application using Full Stack skills- HTML/Java Script, Python or Java using some framework (Django or Flask / Ionic/ Flutter if it is mobile), MySql or NoSql or any DB of your choice (You never know where do you fall in your internship)

-    Start talking to your friends in English (I paid a huge price as I did not do this during my college days. Please don’t repeat this mistake)

-    Start using Word, Excel and Ppt heavily. Best thing is develop a Business Pitch Presentation using ppt and start writing in Word (esp. mail communication is critical) and grammarly check

People who are aiming for GATE/CAT/GRE/UPSC/IES, continue to keep your efforts without any deviation, using these spirits!

Best wishes to all of you. Keep in touch using any of the following handles

Am Happy to help/mentor during your internship/job process for a healthier career planning. Reach me over LinkedIn. Happy Learning.

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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