Software Engineer Programmer - Career Queries

Hello Sahul,  Firstly you have not been specific as to your role in the pharma company. Secondly, your question falls in the IT sector of mera career.  Now I am confused are you working as a technical support in the pharma company or any other role?.  Please note a pharma graduate has many opportunity in the organization right from clinical trials to production to r&d to quality control to medical writing. You could work in any of the department as per your interest. Since your question is vague, I can suggest, pursue a management degree. An MBA in either pharnaceutical mana

Dear Aspirant, If you are planning to be in the niche area of footwear, tool or die making then taking course in that is recommended definitely. The fields which you are talking about are technical in nature and therefore a proper training is required to get into the same. With those niche area knowledge, you will get jobs in those fields only. The payment may not be very high, however if you wish to do what you love, then you will enjoy doing that job and learning it. After taking the training and a little bit of experience, you ca have you own manufacturing / industrial setup. Govt of India

Dear Aspirant, After five years of experience which is considered as comparatively sizeable, you can think of switching companies for a better profile, on site opportunities and increase wages. Also keeping yourself updated in terms of technological advancements will help you a lot. You now need to think for settlement and continue for more years in the same company. Of if opportunities knocks in Indian companies or abroad, you should take the leap. Alternatively, you can enrol for a part time or MOOC in a technical aspect which is different from your current domain specialisation and are

Dear Aspirant, BTech is a good qualification to make a career and actually in your case return to the industry after having a baby. Your case is a common case and you need not be worried. Your age is also not over aged. Based on your BTech qualification, you can get freshers jobs. For this, you will have to brush up again your BTech knowledge and also be aware of the current industry working, conditions, economy, business, etc. You may also think of doing a short term course related to your field which will help you become relevant to the current times and which will help you get a job. The co

Dear Aspirant, If you are not in the right job and domain, you will never get job satisfaction. I would suggest that you should keep the earning for living as the top priority considering your age and future. After that, I would suggest that while you continue with your current company job, try looking out for another company, where you will be able to have a change of environment, people and working conditions.  Now that you are a graduate, you can think of a Masters degree in a subject of your choice. You seem to have completed your graduation very late at the age of 27-28. This is a ne

Your friends are very RIGHT. They have suggested you correctly. Please convey my thanks and appreciation to them since they did not fool you and told you the reality. Being a Civil Engineer, I would strongly suggest you to go a job immediately after your degree. Yes, you can study too, but not an MBA. The best thing as a Civil Engineer to study would be: 1. Project Management 2. Construction Project Management 3. ISO 4. AutoCAD, Stata, Primavera. The above is applicable only if you would like to remain in the civil engineering field for your career. Choosing MBA Finance, etc. would be of no go

Dear Aspirant, GMAT is required for those who wish to pursue MBA from abroad. There are few Institutes in India which consider GMAT score too for admission. Without GMAT, even if you have given CAT, etc here, you will not be able to get admission to BSchools abroad. Going for MBA abroad generally requires some work experience. Best wishes

Hello there,  I am unable to understand your question. Are you saying that you were unable to pay your final semister fees and so the college is not ready to give you your result. If this is the situation, then only thing I can say is that request the college authorities for a copy of the marksheet with a letter stating why you dont have the original marksheet so that you can join a job. Or else the only option would be to ask a relative or friend to help you with cash. Wish you good luck...

Dear Aspirant, Your question tells me clearly that Computers / IT is not a suitable field for you since you are not wishing and inclined to continue in that inspite of getting a BCA as a qualification. Now that you have done BCA, you cannot negotiate or dictate to the company you work for or wishing to work for that you wont do coding, programming. BCA graduates are primarily asked and required to those two things majorly. If you are not interested in IT field, then doing a short duration course is not useful at all. You should change your career path altogether. However selecting the other ca

Dear Aspirant, I would suggest that the ideal course for you would be MBA in Human Resource Management preferably from a top BSchool. For this, I would recommend a full time two year MBA in HR. PR is an ingredient of Human Resource Management also and I would not suggest you to just stick to PR since you are a graduate and have started your career journey just now. Since you are not willing to work in a BPO setup, MBA HR will definitely give you more options in terms of sectors and companies to work in. Since you are Commerce graduate and 26 years old, you are still eligible for full time cour

Dear Aspirant, It would be better to be an Engineer with specialisation in IT, where you are taught programming, coding, etc. BE / BTech in Information Technology or BE / BTech in Computer Science Engineering is suggested. Best wishes

Dear Aspirant, You are demanding very quick and early promotion to the managerial level. Have you gathered so much of experience that nobody can challenge you in your current domain job and work? Three years is very little experience for getting into the managerial role. I would suggest that you should gain more experience in the current job or company. Thinking of leaving the coding world denotes that you are frustrated and aiming for managerial role is inappropriate if you yourself frustrated. If you think of teaching as a full time profession, then it is fine, however after that you wont be

Dear Aspirant, It appears that you are too from the frustrated and disappointed class of software engineers. You can definitely share your experience of how choosing a wrong career can land you in problems. Switching from Software engineering (including the lifestyle, pay packages, corporate environment) to a career counselling / counselling domain is not that simple as you are thinking of. The difference on those parameters is huge. Will you be able to accept that drastic downward trajectory? I think you should give another deep thought to your thinking of changing careers. Why dont you learn

Dear ASpirant, BigData is definitely a good option to shift into. With ten years of experience, I feel testing will continue to be growing for a career, however BigData requires command over Statistics, Mathematics and other quantitative tools on the analysis side. Best wishes

Dear Aspirant, There are courses in Travel & Tourism and you can get jobs in Travel industry through Travel Agents, Travel companies, etc. There is scope in travel since tourism has been the focus area for India specifically and other countries as well are very and already promoting tourism of their country to the world. For career in travel, you will need to be extremely good in understanding people, will have to have a good stamina, reading, making notes, etc. Best wishes

Dear Aspirant, Can you please before tell me on what basis you chose software as a career? It appears that you chose it by the herd mentality and imagined some rosy picture and life style in IT. What is making you non-interested in IT now suddenly? I think you should find out the real reason behind this feeling of yours and check whether it is really genuine or you are not able to face the competition or challenges in the job? I feel, you need to find out which area / domain is suitable to you for career. Ideal Career Test from CareerGuide is the best solution to make you aware of what are you

Dear Aspirant, Firstly hope that you have the required educational qualifications with satisfactory marks/percentages to do a particular job. I liked your question and I appreciate your willingness to learn and improve your job prospects. Companies who recruit look for the below skills in the candidates: 1. Education 2. Communication Skills 3. Language skills 4. Team spirit 5. General knowledge / business knowledge 6. Computer proficiency (typing and MS Office proficiency) 7. Flexibility towards work and working hours 8. Adaptability to changing situations Best wishes

Dear Aspirant, It appears that you are obsessed by the IT career, the salary they receive, posh offices. Inspite of having wonderful career options in Arts/Humanities stream, why are you thinking for a career in Software engineering. Typically, you cannot be admitted into Engineering discipline without Science background, however if you had Maths in your graduation, then you can go for MCA course based on your BA percentage. However still I feel, that your decision and thinking to choose Software/IT is misguided and not well informed. I think you should choose your career based on your educati