Hello Friends,
In few more months - you would complete your engineering and set on a Marathon called Career. It will last 35 -40 years.
At eLitmus, over 12+ years, we have seen many a careers make or break. It was our duty to share learnings so that freshers of today can become successful professionals of tomorrow.
Career is a marathon - don’t run it like 100 m sprint
Your career will be 35-40 year long. You cannot win it by running first 100m fast.
Your 2-5 year seniors still see it as a sprint, so its important to not only hear them but also reach out to 35 / 40 / 45/ 50 / 55 year olds so that you know what is in the race ahead.
So if you talk to a 25 year old professional, s/he will tell you to get ahead in career it is important is to change jobs or learning hot technologies.
In contrast a 45 year old professional will say how going that extra mile in your current job will ensure you have a job at age of 45. Why ? Because s/he is seeing 10+ years professionals being laid all around.
75% of engineers who start in IT industry this year will not have job 20 years later
Wondering why ? Could it have been avoided ? Yes !! We will soon tell you how ? Keep pondering on both questions in the meanwhile.
In meanwhile here are some links for you to quickly validate what we say. Remember majority of this news does not come out in media !! Also these are not start ups but large companies including MNCs. Are companies to blame ? Answer is no !!
Verizon layoff : http://english.sakshi.com/news/2017/12/20/us-company-verizon
- $124 billion company, 6 time of TCS, laid of Hundreds in India !!
Cognizant : http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/cognizant-tech
TCS : https://www.gadgetsnow.com/jobs/TCS
Cisco : https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cisco
Partners to your Career,
Team eLitmus
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