Jumpstart in the Corporate World for Freshers

As a fresh graduate (Engineering/BCA/MCA/BSc) passing out of college, students focus on being good at academic syllabus, acquiring aptitude skills, technical skills (like learning a programming language) and soft skills to crack the interviews in IT industry. Are these the skills required to pass the company’s evaluation and to get placed in a software company? To a certain extent this is true. Are these the only skills they need to get started in the corporate world and excel in their career? The answer is a NO!

Fresh graduates need to be fast adapting to the team/project/company they join. They need to be proficient not just technically, but also in some of the aspects of the development life cycle, software methodologies followed in the project, commonly used tools across various phases of software development, business language used in the team, the soft skills to interact with their team and the customers. These skills are a must and bare minimum expectation in the corporate world to enter, survive and excel, which is lacking in the fresh graduates. The fresh graduates don’t realize this till they start giving interviews in the corporate world.

The underlying problem here is “Academic syllabus alone is not on par with the industry expectations”. How can one gain these skills prior to entering the corporate world?

“Jumpstart in the Corporate World for Freshers” is a program to be a win-win for the educational institutions and the IT companies who hire them. This program ensures that the fresh graduates are industry ready due to the evolved skill set they gain, as part of this program. Post this specialized program, the fresh graduates are industry ready from every aspect like agile methodology and practice, understanding the requirements, understand the user stories and writing detailed ones, knowledge of CI/CD, deployment strategies, testing landscape, different tools used, writing good unit tests, have the ability to think about efficiency & performance of the product, talk directly to product owners for clarifications, good at communicating with various stakeholders of the project, composing good emails and many more. This program is a delicate mix of processes, technologies, concepts and soft skills which is very essential for the fresh graduates.

By attending this course, the fresh graduates have a greater probability of getting placed into software companies due to their industry ready skillset. These skilled graduates are preferred by industry since their ramp up time in projects is less, less hand holding/training is required, they understand the dynamics of the team/project and adapt well, they have all the skills and confidence to get started. These skilled graduates work efficiently on par with industry veterans from day one of their career. This helps them grow in their career faster compared to other peers in their field. This program is like a jump start for the fresh graduates into the corporate world.