Resume not getting shortlisted ?

Hold on. It is not only about luck. Trust me. It is about skills, credibility, visibility, supply and demand to a very large extent.

It is not enough if you have skills. In addition, the world should know that you exist (visibility) and can clear the interviews (credibility) given an opportunity. It matters because companies spend significant time and money screening, shortlisting and interviewing hundreds of applicants already.

There is an order in which you fix things.

1. Ensure your skills are relevant, polished and top notch. There is no point chasing the job openings without it.
2. Get a higher degree from a reputed institute if possible.
3. Network with people in key roles both online and offline (if you join a reputed institute this aspect becomes easy). Tell them how you have been sharpening your skills over the last few months and how you are ready to interview for challenging roles. Request them to refer you at their workplace.
4. People don’t mind referring other genuine and capable people. In fact, they get paid for it in some places.

It is a fact that companies don’t have time to even screen all resumes they get on their websites or through consultants. Your resume should impress the person screening it in like 3 seconds to get shortlisted. So, how is it going to stand out among the millions of resumes floating around? Think about it.

-Imtiaz Mohammad

If a cab driver makes more money than an IT professional, why should I study?

 You should continue to study so that you would understand what false equivalence is and how to avoid falling into it.

---

So these are the gems that your finding-A cab driver makes more money than an IT professional-ignores:

1. An entry level cab driver might make more money than the IT professional, but a senior-level IT professional would have more relaxed life, more vacations, more rooms in the house, more money in stocks, gold and bank than a senior-level cab driver.
2. All cab drivers, regardless of age or experience, generally earn a fixed rate per trip. In contrast, a high-level IT professional can earn 10 to 100 times more than someone just starting out in the industry.
3. If you're unhappy in IT, you can always switch to driving a cab. But if you start as a cab driver and later realize your assumptions were wrong, transitioning into IT becomes significantly harder.
4. Your knowledge compounds in IT. Based on your projects and work experience, you grow up the ladder. And this compounded knowledge results in more money. As cab driver, well, your knowledge is stagnant and your income depends on inflation and not on your skill.
5. Your IT job has paid holidays, medical leave and health insurance. As cab driver, if you don’t work, no pay.

So

The thing is

Choose right data and derive right conclusions to take right decisions.

-Srinath Nalluri

Average Student ?

I can't make profit on my shop......

Salary in IT after 20 Years

It really depends on lot of factors. I will mention worst and best cases where salary can go. But before doing so let’s revisit what are the factors and how they can impact career growth.

---

• Efforts: Does not matter whether you are IITian or Tier-3 guy. You have to be extremely hard working person to grow in IT career. It’s not like got job and now life is settled. Continue efforts for learning new things outside job can make wonders in long term. That’s where stories like “from 30k per month to 5L per month happens”
• Proactiveness: One has to go over and beyond when it comes to office work. You should own the work instead of assuming it as burden. If you are proactive and go beyond your responsibilities, there are higher chances that you will get promoted.
• Regular switch: This may be controversial but if you are not having background like IIT or some FAANG company on your resume only way to grow exponentially is to change companies on regular basis. Sure there might be good companies who provide really good internal hikes but if your starting point itself is low , hike won’t add much value. Remember 5% on 50L is much better than 12% on 10L.
• League Of companies: Lot of non IT or even seasoned IT people think they have to learn some hot skills to earn more. But it’s far from truth. I saw some guys are ridiculing QA guys as if they are clerk. Let me tell you one thing, QA in google earns far more than so called talented Devs in TCS and Infosys. If there is single most factor which decide salary then it has to be kind company you are working in. Hence it is extremely important to be in right company.

Now having all context set here are the figures based on my judgement.

• If you take absolute worst and best case, in worst case someone may not able to even get a job if get fired and is not skilled enough to get another job. So worst case is 0 salary. On other hand there is literally no upper limit for highest salary. Someone can become CEO of top product company if he/she has those skills and climbed ladder with right effort in right direction.
• I am sure we are disappointed with first point and wanted something more realistic. Well if some one start with service companies like TCS, Infosys etc and never change company he mostly will reach at around 25–30L ish CTC after 20 years. If some one proactively kept on changing companies and joins FAANG or hot startups he may reach to even 5cr of CTC.

Note: Answer is written with context of software career within India.

-Santosh Kadam

Low Income Family?

Path of Education can also be very Beautiful