Experts claim that India is still to reach the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak, where the confirmed cases till today are around 5,85,703 and death tallies to 17,410.
This surge in number has put the economic activities to a hold. Many companies will work with half of their employees in order to get the least expenditure and most of employees get fired from the company.
Also work from home is the only option left to work with which is possible only for sectors EC, CS & IT streams and what about other streams where field work is required. More than 10 lakh engineers graduates every year in India, taking this number into account, it will be difficult for the freshers to find their dream jobs, it will be a big question as their a economic downfall then who will provide them jobs. Already the unemployment rate has surged to 24% for 17% in 2 months.
Hardly now on companies will fall in the process of hiring the fresh engineers and training them. Alternately they will ask for engineers with 2-3 years of experience who could be trained in few days with the company’s atmosphere.
Engineers do have a scope for startups amid coronavirus outbreak. They could indulge in activities which would be beneficial to various fields as all the sectors will be finding innovation solutions for their work.
Just increase the your skills in this lockdown.”On what skills did you work on?”, will be the most famous question in the recruitment drive. So work on the skills most needed by the companies through online platforms.