Prateek Shetty(2010): How my final year project landed me in Job

Hi all,

           It gives me immense pleasure to share my experience with all you juniors.  Here is a small article on how my final year project helped me get a job! Ravindra Sir had asked me to write this long back, but due to my busy schedule I couldn’t. I believe it’s better late than never, so this is how it goes…

           Once you enter your final year the search for the project group starts. And after the group is formed, starts the hunt for the project topic. Can say it as the most vital part of the project.  Some think of the marks they are going to score if they take up a particular project and some think of the things they can learn while doing the project. This reminds me of what my friend Rohan Nayak used to say, “It doesn’t matter how much you score in your project, what matters is how much you learn out of it”. And remember, if all you want is to get some marks there are easy ways out. But we chose the hard way and under the guidance of Ravindra Sir and mentorship of Mr. Nikhil Kulkarni from Minglebox, we started our project ‘Social Network Aggregator’.

            To say in brief about the project, we wanted to do something that has real world application, a product. We can call it as a WEB 3.0 application that aggregates data from different social networks. We aggregated data from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, through which one can upload his status simultaneously on all three networks. It’s been done using the API’s provided by these networking sites, protocol called OAuth for user authentication, and PHP. They say that getting a job off campus is nut cracking experience. But in reality, if you are good there are always people ready to hire you. I will be always thankful to Ravindra Sir for offering me an opportunity, and I made the best out of it. I proudly tell that I had got offers from two companies!! Out of which I chose InfoBridge Solutions, Pune. I was hired as a PHP developer.  Learning experience and exposure a fresher gets in a small company or a startup can never be compared with that of the IT giants!!

            That’s all I got to say fellas, all the best for your project and future. Thank you Ravindra Sir, for giving me this opportunity.

Regards,

Prateek Shetty

Jr Software Developer,

InfoBridge Solutions, Pune.

Email: prtek.shetty@gmail.com

Gururaj Kulkarni (2010) shares his views on securing Jobs

Hi,

Searching a job or changing a job is not an easy task. Especially for a fresher, it is difficult to clear the interview procedure. Computer Science graduates or graduates from other branch, who try to get into IT field, are bit lucky. The internet helps them to seek the help from blogs, websites, discussion forums and other resources. But, internet doesn’t helps to seek the desired solutions easily.

One should know how to Google effectively since googling is also an art. I came across so many resources to find questions and answers, asked in interviews often. I collected some of the questions and answers from huge resource.

When I looked back at my buddies, I felt that couple of them are also struggling in the same way as me. So resource is to share with others, else it will be only source. I feel it is a cup of coffee from coffee shop. I am able to fetch a cup of coffee for you not the entire coffee available at coffee shop. If you feel this document is helpful, please forward to others. If you find any wrong or misleading information in the document, you can mail me at mailto:mguruk2k5@gmail.com  a description note. This document deals with only java related question. Reader’s support encourages to produce the same kind of a document for other concepts like, .NET, FLEX, PHP,PERL, C, C++, Database, Operating systems etc. Here I acknowledge my gratitude to all my friends who are my backbones.

Thank you

Openings: Enzen Global Solutions (www.enzenglobal.com)

Enzen Global Solutions (www.enzenglobal.com) – Bangalore is planning for fresher’s recruitment in July 2010. We invite CVs of fresh graduates who would like to be a part of the growing Enzen family for taking up challenging assignments.


Qualification Criteria:

1. BE / B Tech / MCA / MSc (IT) - Yr. 2009 or 2010 pass out with minimum 65% aggregate

2. Exposure to IT domain and programming languages during the academic course

Note:

Please send the CVs to: dharshan.br@enzentech.com

Timeline for sending CVs : Jul 12th to July 24th 2010

Subject line of email should contain the following information in the mentioned format:

“Degree – Year of Pass out”, Eg: MCA – 2009

Short listed candidates will be informed through email

Anyone having attended written test at Enzen during the last SIX months, need not apply

Philips openings for Freshers

Philips – Hiring Fresher’s

WALK-IN for Fresher’s on 17^th July, 2010 at 8:30 AM

Venue: Philips Innovation Campus, Manyata Tech Park, Nagawara, Bangalore

 Eligibility Criteria – 2010 engineering graduates (BE/BTech, ME/MTech), min aggregate of 75%

Branches – Computer Science, Electronics & Communication, Information Technology, Information Science  

Process: Written Test, Technical Interviews

Duration: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

*You can ask the candidates to directly appear for the written test

*Verification of marks will be done prior to the written test

*Ensure that the candidates write your name & employee ID as reference on the resume

*Candidates who have appeared for the Philips written test in the last 6 months are not eligible.

I am Cloud 9 : Jeevan Dongre, Jr. Software Developer, Inkorus, Pune

I am Cloud 9 : Jeevan Dongre, Jr. Software Developer, Inkorus, Pune

I am very keen on sharing my final year project experience with my you all because I do understand the difficulty in choosing the right topics and even I was once in a dilemma like you guys not aware what kind of topics to be chosen for. The final year projects are not just gonna add to your academic brilliance but most of the times decide your career. So the topics for the project must be chosen very very carefully.

I am tech savvy and I had a great appetite for learning and staying updated about the latest and upcoming technologies.Before I decide any thing regarding my final year, I had two objectives that has to be fulfilled by project.Firstly it should be helpful to a group of people or a community like Education, Healthcare etc.Secondly it should possess a strong business objective, so that I should be in a position to promote it has product. Since the word “cloud computing” was in the buzz, I felt this could be one such interesting topic which i could take for my career deciding project. So I and my team approached ‘ happy-to-help-anytime’ Dastikop Sir, who gave us a clarity of the subject.

“CLOUD BASED TEACHING SYSTEM”(CBTS) was my final year project. The objective of this project is to bring the traditional class room teaching system a new dimension. Utilizing the resources which are already available in web, we are able develop a new product which can be managed effortlessly.By cloud-based teaching-learning system we mean a method of teaching where web is the point of contact between teacher and learner. This system may be used independently or in conjunction with class room teaching.

CBTS harnesses variety of cloud resources to design, develop and deploy teaching courses and delivers them over the web. By end-to-end we CBTS covers all aspects of teaching process such as Course registration, content delivery, monitoring of students progress, assignments, tests and final certification culminating with warding grades to registered students. The CBTS will be accessible to teacher and students at a web-interface and acts as a dashboard.

Suprizingly “Cloud Based Teaching Sytem” is not just our final year project, it is going to be a research activity soon as “Cloud Learning Environment”. People across the world(US/UK/Canada) are showing keen interest.Thanks to Social Networking sites.

I would suggest you to go for upcoming technologies since the industry prefers such projects rather than the conventional age old concepts. Lot many developers and Engineers are already working on traditional systems, to make different identity in the industry, its very important to up with a OUT OF BOX thinking and start working on cutting edge technologies.Finally its your interest all which matters.Prioritize your interests and strengths and do thorough searching before you choose the topic.

I have share my interview experience with you allI must say its first of its kind. It was 6 hours long hard core technical interview. Though our HR was looking for cloud computing(Google App Engine developers) for a long time.I have to mention he is IIT-Mumbai, passed out!

Before I conclude, I have to Thank my Guru and Guide, Prof.Ravindra G Dastikop,formally I am mention we both have very long way to go and also our Mentor Mr.Earlence Fernandes, Softwares Engineer, Accenture, Pune.Who helped us a lot.

Needless to say... with a cloud computing project... I am on CLOUD 9!!

My First job: How my project work help me get it

Hello,

Its my immense pleasure to share my experience about “ How my project helped me to get my first job”.... Firstly my heartily thanks to Prof.Ravindra Dastikopa, for giving me an opportunity to share my views & experience in getting my first job...

During 7th semester myself with my team were thinking to do something which is new , innovative, and helpful to society , this was our main objectives.... As we approached Professor he suggested his idea's which will be helpful for the education system i.e “CLOUDBASED TEACHING SYSTEM”.

Here started our journey to think in the direction of "CLOUDBASED TEACHING SYSTEM”.... With this in mind we started searching more information with respect to this and during this session lots of brainstorming sessions happened on requirement collection, constraints, and choosing domains (Like java, python and .net)..... Finally we where al set & started our work in this .....

We understood the entire system environment and stepped into executing the plans what we had.. We took java as platform to develop a system. In between we faced lots of errors and constraints , that we fixed it .. And finally done with the project successfully ....Here , I would like to mention one more person Mr. Earlence Fernandes from PUNE , who helped & guided us during the time of project development....

In the entire process i have really learn' t lot many things which polished me to transfer myself from normal student to become a Professional and i'm very happy & satisfied with the work i have done so far ...... A Knowledge gained from our project really helped us to get a job which i'm in now.... Project really made us to enter into the Corporate world that too soon after my engineering without much delay ......

Finally coming to the job, offcourse the most important thing ....

I have applied to the job where I can apply my skills and get more knowledge about the industry.. They called for face to face interview.. I was confident in my work & on myself ...... Interview went nearly 6 Hrs .. It was pure technical session, in that they had asked on some basic concepts of Computer Science field , java and offcourse abt GAE (Google App Engine , i.e , based on my project ) .. And after 2 days of my interview I got my OFFER LETTER to my mail joining was on 5th July .... All this happened and stil our 8th sem results were not announced yet & i had an OFFER LETTER for my FIRST JOB in my hand....

If i just turn back & see, feels like all this happened like a miracle even though there were lots of ups & downs until the completion of my project ..... Finally my project helped me to get near to my destiny.....

by VijayKumar Sali, Jr. Software Developer ,Inkorus Solutions,Pune, India

How my final year Project landed me into my First job: Prathvi Raj Palekar(2010)

My Project work:

My project  Markmelive was a Web Based Application Using API.  Basically its a Mashup of Facebook And Google Maps  If we go to the logic or working there is no much complication in the project But the domain study which we did to make it work was a lot .

Approaching companies for Job:

So coming to the part of getting a job. I and Dastikop sir we together sent mails to some of the start up companies using our contacts. On the same day iIgot the interview cal and appointment call too.

What company was looking for?

Basically what company look for is like how ready you are . Definately the IDE we used in our project (Eclipse) had a plus point because all most all the development in industries are on IDE . then the technology we used FLEX is a emerging trend in the world . the industry will we definately happy to have some who have the knowledge in the resent trend Then once you have entered you will be working in all most all the domain u might have not imagined :).

Cross posted at SDMWORLD, Ravindra Dastikop, Onwards