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Affinity of engineering students for IT

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: If you are an engineering graduate, landing a job in Bangalore is easy meat. Provided of course, you are smart enough to spot an opportunity. Whatever be the engineering stream a student pursued at college, he or she could choose to become a software engineer.

There are IT firms aplenty in the city, which are masters at chiselling out programmers from, say, civil engineering graduates.

You can find graduates without an inkling of even the programming language C walk into a software firm and walk out as systems engineers in six months flat. That is IT training for you. So, a candidate with zero computer knowledge gets trained virtually free of charge by a company. Yet, by the end of the training, the graduate is out, adding to the firm's attrition rate.

Medicine ignored?

Perhaps engineering seat aspirants have all these in mind when they refuse to even consider medicine as a career.

The other day, a student, in the midst of his preparations for the Common Entrance Test (CET), declared with finality: "Medicine means endless study. By the time you have completed your graduation and post-graduation (a must to attract patients) and gain experience, you are already over the hill. So, why bother?"

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