In his much-debated book The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World, the celebrated writer Scott Hartley describes techies as anyone who studies and picks up...
Category - Career Guidance – Students
Academic Year 2021: Is a short break advisable?
At the peak of last year’s pandemic, I received a call from Shankar, father of Santosh, who had got a seat for a Computer Science engineering course. Considering the uncertainties, he...
Earn while you learn
Last year in the middle of the pandemic, an e-commerce company was running through a huge project and needed as many people as possible with basic skills of translation from English to...
Time Flies; Be its Pilot
This academic year has been variously challenged due to the pandemic; reduced offline classes, introduction of online classes, curtailed syllabus and continued anxiety and uncertainties...
Building a career: Role of Parents and Children
A parent is the first teacher of a child and should actively assume this role throughout until children grow up, complete their education and settle down successfully in a career.
Self-belief a way to manage failures
A few days ago, I was counselling Rohit of 12th standard, who was preparing for JEE-Main exam scheduled in 2020. He was very keen to do B.Tech. in IIT, even if it meant taking a year’s...