Freshers from core engineering branches are having a tough time out there. It is not because jobs aren’t available in abundance but because their expectations are unrealistic. Core engineering industries do not have the same pay scale as the IT industry. Money is surely a factor, but experience is the most important thing in core engineering branches.
In the IT industry there are tools where you can manage without experience or even fake your experience to an extent. In the core engineering branches, you are caught within no time.
The work culture is extremely different as well. It is not a 9-5 job like most think, as you are building infrastructure on which the daily life depends on, literally. Experience and technical correctness are of the utmost importance in core branches, an error here is not just a message on the screen but a life could be lost because of it.
The trainee engineers or the freshers willing to build a career in this field need to eat a humble pie at the start. Their friends from IT or any relevant industry will earn more than them but in time, they will surpass them in job satisfaction and in pay scale as well.
I came to write this when I experienced unrealistic expectations from the candidates during the interviews and impatience to gain the needed experience. It is a nightmare as an employer to see the talent and then find them to be shortsighted.
The world has come down to quick success and as one of the candidates mentioned to me, “quick bucks”. If you are an electrical, mechanical or civil engineer, there is nothing ‘quick’ in this industry. You must do your time as an engineer before you could demand the ‘big bucks’.
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