Engineers, MBAs line up for SI post - TeluguPeople.com News

HYDERABAD: Faced with threats of another recession and stiff competition for the few plum jobs in their industry, engineering, MCA and MBA graduates are bracing themselves for the worst.

But instead of joining the long unemployment queues, they are lining up at the police recruitment coaching centres in the state capital.

Any job is better than no job seems to be the adage of the times or so believes K Madhusudhan Reddy from Nalgonda. The MBA-holder, who has enrolled himself at the Bhagya Nagar Institute of Police training in Dilsukhnagar, says: 'I am ready to do the job of a constable if I fail to land an SI's job.'

A look at the admission rosters at such training centres in the city verify the rising trend. The Bhagyanagr institute director Malyadri says that at present over 2,000 people have signed up for coaching for the upcoming recruitment.

Of this, 50 per cent of the candidates are from the three backgrounds. Records at the Hyderabad Institute of Police at Dilsukhnagar reveal similar trends.

With the state government ready to recruit over 22,000 constables and 2,000 police sub-inspectors besides filling posts in the Special Police Force (SPF), jail and fire departments, it seems to be the ideal opportunity for fresh graduates out on the hunt for jobs. Some also prefer the security offered by a government job.

Moreover, students with a sound background in mathematics and logical reasoning also find it much easier to crack the recruitment test. The SI test comprises a Mathematics and reasoning paper for 200 marks, similar to the ICET exam, the qualifying exam for MCA and MBA.

It's not just worries of an impending recession that has forced these graduates to dump their hard-earned degrees and go off in search of other jobs.

Many engineering and MBA colleges in the state are not up to normal standards and churn out by thousands, graduates with poor employable skills, says an official at the higher education department. Looking at the fate of graduates, their younger counterparts are also choosing alternate career paths, leaving many engineering colleges half vacant.

So in the end, its not just graduates with the once-hailed degrees of engineering and MBA who are being affected, but also the many other arts and commerce degree holders who will now have to jostle with more numbers for the SI and other government jobs.