Do not base employment decisions purely on salary.

This is the time for companies to value employee loyalty and employees to demonstrate loyalty towards the company.

Students better ask for “Money to pocket” and stop asking for “CTC”.

Most of the components in CTC are over and above basic salary and in many cases the employee may never realize it.

Employee value cannot be measured only by salary.

Measuring people by salary is as bad as measuring husbands by dowry.

It takes about 6-12 months for freshers to be productive and billable

Newer skills sought

What was good in yesteryears e.g., ABAP is not sufficient. Fresher may skill themselves in emerging technologies/tools/areas: like Netweaver, Business Process Management – Pega and Training in niche skills would be an advantage for students.

Proficiency in foreign languages (French/German/Italian, etc.) will be a clear advantage.

Apart from employment through campus recruitment, students may take up innovative assignments in many other areas like: agriculture, farming, etc.