The employment field in India has undergone and is undergoing a sea change with a wide range of opportunities open to youngsters in various fields. Never before in India’s history have we seen such an interaction between the employers and the potential employees. It has been a two-way street. MNCs, manufacturing concerns, IT majors, IT-enabled services and others need the right kind of professionals and others as much as the youngsters need the right kind of openings in different fields.

The old kind of recruitment is passé. Gone are the days when one applies for the job and waits eternally for an interview, medical examination and other unending formalities. Today interviews are fixed on the basis of ads or even walk-in interviews or tele-conferencing. And there are campus selections and career fairs organized at regular intervals in different cities. Many companies are employing graduates fresh from colleges or universities, training and orienting them to meet the demands of the jobs that they are required to perform.

Compared to a mere 75,000 software engineers emerging in the US, a top high 1.2 lakh software professionals enter the employment field in India every year. The number of low-end software technicians has already crossed a million. The software industry is growing at the rate of 50 percent per annum and IT exports account for 30 percent of the total exports.

As India is poised to become an economic and knowledge superpower, propelled by a leadership of great vision, the responsibility for carrying out the vision would largely depend on our youth for whom the nation provides a vast and varied field. Here, they can perform their best in any field they choose. More opportunities would emerge for them with the passage of time.