So if you have completed your 12th in science stream and if you would ask your parents or friends, what course or degree should you pursue? Most common answer from most of them would be go for engineering it has a good future, you will earn good six digit salary etc.
But is it true? According to current scenario in India I would rather say no!! it's not a great career to choose for, there are more than lakhs of engineers jobless in India. And the reason behind that is either they don't have proper technical knowledge or the job availability is less. Talking about less availability of jobs, that is due to less demand and high supply of engineers. In simple words if you would see more than 50% of students after their 12th go for engineering as their future that is either due to peer pressure or less idea about the options available and no proper guidance and counselling.
But that doesn't make engineering as a bad career option if you are really superior at it or rather have a capability to become superior and great in engineering or any career option then only go for it or else look inside to and see what you are good at.
Recently I received a message on whatsapp about engineering or rather relate it with courses chosen due to peer pressure, take a look at it,
*Dr Sunil Jejit HR L&T*
Just because I am holding a senior position in HR with L&T , I have been getting many requests from my relatives, friends, acquaintances, to help their sons or daughters ,who have freshly passed out from engineering college, to get job in L&T. The number of requests are huge. So many fresh engineers are unemployed, I could hardly helped only few of them to get job in L&T or in some other companies where I have contacts. I feel bad to say NO to many of the requests or for those whom I can't help. They get disappointed. I can understand. Parents invest their life time earned money just to see their sons or daughters getting degree in engineering. They think that jobs are easily available for engineers. After interviewing many of them , I can't even tell them that your son or daughter do not even have minimum required technical knowledge. Getting first class or distinction has become so easy without having fundamental knowledge of engineering. It's high time for parents to stop running behind engineering degrees.
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 she/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 re plan 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 2018 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. Engineering computer, 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, plesse share this with your relatives/friends/12th pass students and help them in planning their education and career appropriately rather than madly running after engineering admissions !!!
The problem is as a student or a small child they are not clear with the idea what they are good at. And according to current trend some people would also say " make your hobby or passion as your career " but according to me that isn't a right choice because I have seen many peoples hobby or passion towards cricket or singing or riding bikes etc. but that doesn't mean you are good at it either mentally or physically and it will help you achieve all the success of life. There are many counselling available at very cheap cost now a days, they will guide you through the process of choosing a career and you will have an idea what you are good at and what you should do.
Do what you are bad at you will become better and Do what you are good at you will become great.
There is a small story about Ratan Tata and his dad Naval Tata,
Once Ratan Tata went to his dad after completing his MBA degree from Harvar Business School and said " Dad what should I do now in my career? " and his dad replied " become a shoe repairer " After hearing that he was in shock he said " i have not done my MBA degree to become a shoe repairer " then his dad said " Become a shoe repairer but be the best shoe repairer in the world "
Great article, keep the good work going.
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