Love Change to Grow and Live Happily :-))

Often a question is raised in general high tea talks and leisure time discussions that, why do IT companies prefer to recruit fresh graduates from any and nearly every discipline. I often think, it could be something to do with the nature of this Industry which forces it to Involve the Energy, Interest, Passion and Flexibility of young graduates into its process of growing leaps and bounds every year. IT is majorly a Self Service Industry where in the nature of job changes with the changing needs. For completing the Job in hand, generally the companies are left with stringent deadlines and pressure to deliver high quality work. It could be really difficult to manage work under such constraints without the availability of freshers. When I say such words, then every reader has a right to question me WHY Do I SAY SO, and it is completely logical to ask me. Now there is definitely an explanation to this thought. In general, every project, which is taken up by an IT company, requires allot of Expertise for it to be completed on time and with acceptable quality. The Expertise which might be expected, comes after few years of working. This creates a need of having some Experienced resources as the drivers of Project. The most strange part of Technology is, that its pretty different then what it looks like. Using an already build product requires far less brain then to create it. When I say create a product then I mean a project which we have been talking about, since beginning. The building of the product involves rigorous analyses and planning which forms the major part of development cycle. Now this stage is so sensitive, that, if a single condition is missed, then that will definitely increase the time of development of the project. As a human nature, irrespective of the amount of experience we hold, we can always narrow the scope of making mistake but can never avoid it from happening. Thus in real time systems, this makes it mandatory to have some buffer time and some buffer resources. When I say buffer time, then does not mean to have some extra time for development, but to keep some time out of the available one, as buffer. But when it comes to resources, then as Buffer resources, you need to have people, who are fresh, full of energy, have an appetite for learning new technologies and systems, have no problems to work for extra hours, have no commitments or general responsibilities to fulfill, have flexibility to moves to any part of globe, have burning desire to perform and progress, are easily influenced by the motivating words from seniors and have no resistance what so ever about working on any platform or in any domain. All this and more can be extracted from fresh graduates only. The biggest asset is their flexibility for doing nearly any and every thing which is in general lacking in the Experienced resources, who with time, develop some kind of mental resistance, for the change of technology, domain, geographical location etc. This can be explained, as with time, as they grow, they also grow allot of responsibilities for themselves. There are people who are dependant on them and every decision taken by them, effects not only their life but also the life of the other people who depend on them. This thing somehow Increases a kind of resistance in them, for any kind of change, which might effect their job and in turn life of the people who are dependant on them. But the experience which they have gained over years, can never be neglected and that's what makes their presence Important in nearly every project.

I think, looking at the present trends and the growing needs in IT, a person who would be able to manage to grow his/her experience and knowledge, but at the same time would remain flexible and will keep positive attitude towards work and life would definitely be able to maintain a balance in his/her personal life and would live a happy and quality life.