Placements have been terrific for us recently but everywhere I go people are always talking about youth unemployment or underemployment.
I can tell you exactly what the issue is.
Colleges are great at preparing you for a career that requires licensing like nursing, physician or pharmacist. But as soon as the topic is general, like Business Administration, then they suck at preparing you for working at a Fortune 500 company.
My guess is that everyone's ideal is to work at a Fortune 500 company, and I can tell you the easiest way to achieve that goal is by working in Information Technology (IT).
One of the most important things you can do in life is to get a mentor. Someone that is successful and then follow his advice or in his footsteps.
OK, here I am entering mentoring mode, and here is some advice for all you young people to become successful.
1) Learn JAVA - This is such a base skill to have and it will help you to get to other higher paying verticals in IT. This is my most important advice.
2) Save $100,000 - While you are young learn to live like you were still in college. Save every penny you have until you have $100,000 saved in the bank. This will give you lots of flexibility to grab opportunities when they come.
3) Join a consulting company - Join a consulting company that specializes in training and then placing you. The reason you join is that they really know which technologies are doing well and are required in the market. They can guide you on what to learn.
4) Work like an Indian - I have said this before. But if you project requires you to work 60 works and bill for 40, you do that. Until you become an expert in your technology, this is what you have to do. I have told this to my American employees and they still do not listen. Let me give you an example. I have a consultant that is older and has been desperate for a good job and we trained and placed her in a good company. The client told my consultants to bill for overtime hours, and the Indian consultants billed for 5-6 hours and my American consultant billed for 38 extra hours. It has only been 2 months since she has joined her dream job and she is really still in the learning phase, there is no way you bill a client for 38 extra hours even if you worked it. In consulting that is simply not done. So let me reiterate here: WORK LIKE AN INDIAN, this is very important.
5) Become successful young, marry young, have kids when you are young. Nothing will be more important in your future and your happiness than your family and their happiness. It is so important to not delay success, because a delay here, causes a delay in the rest of life's important events.
If you are young (22-35) and are unemployed or are underemployed, then call me and I can advice on what to do. I like to help young people and if you do not have a mentor, I can help to mentor you.
Vijay Madala - 248-797-4990
