Career Options after B.E/B-Tech

It has been known without doubt that Engineering has remained as one of the most sought after career option for bright students over years. There is no dearth of opportunities for aspirants after graduation in engineering.

The  Opportunities can be classified as:

1. Take up Some Job.
2. Higher Studies.
3. Entrepreneurship.
4. IAS/IES/Other Public Sector Units(PSU)

Take up Some Job

This is the one of the primary reason why someone pursues an engineering degree. When it comes to premier institutes like IIT or NIT, then these institutes have an excellent on-campus placement process and hence the students here don’t have to fret much. But the good news is that world does not end with on-campus job offers. Irrespective of which college one belongs to, they should never discard the option of off campus recruitment. The way to go about can be to have a internet-presence, with good resume (avoiding any mistakes) and the world can be yours. It is very important to leverage every resource in such a case. The resource can be an acquaintance working in an organization, your friends and most importantly your alumni. Never hesitate to use these resources. As far as alumni are concerned they are more than happy to help.

Now we will straight away jump to the classification of jobs that you can aim at.

• Technical
• By technical I mean are jobs related to the core area in which you have pursued your engineering, like Civil, Mechanical, Instrumentation, etc. These can be jobs in SME, government jobs or big corporate. To identify where you can apply, again your alumnus and friends from other colleges can be the best source. USE THEM!
• Non-Technical
• These are jobs that are related more to your passion rather than your engineering degree. So these are mostly offbeat like Fashion designing, forays into movie or television industry, DJ, RJ etc.
• Software
• Although these are also technical jobs, but I have kept them separately for obvious reasons.

Higher Studies

Jobs are not the only option and engineering degree by no means is an end to your academic career. A person can always pursue higher studies. Some of them are listed in the below figure.

Entrepreneurship

A quote says “Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them“. If you want ot be your own boss, then this is the way to go. You might be working in a Fortune 500 company with a fat pay-package, but still you are chained, albeit with a golden one. The education system of India is unfortunately teaching us how to be excellent at working under someone else. If you have the passion and you think you got the capabilities, don’t hesitate and start your own venture. In the world of social networking, help is just a click away.

IAS/ IES/Other Public Sector Units(PSU)

Clearing an IAS exam was never so profitable and easy for an engineer. With the sixth-pay commission (meaning improved salary structure) and the change in exam pattern (heavily favoring engineers), IAS is definitely worth a shot.
IES, the Indian Engineering Services is mainly meant for people from Civil engineering, Mechanical engineering and Electrical engineering. If you are comfortable working in a government set-up than the payoffs are plenty and you won’t regret taking this decision.
In the above post I have tried to cover most of the options possible for an engineer. But as they say, “sky is the limit”, so there are definitely a lot of other options possible. Just keep in mind that the decisions should be driven by your passion not the short-term gains.

Some part of this article was collected from careerilove.com. and I found it to be very useful for the soon-to-be graduates to plan their careers. So, I decided to share it to all the readers.