Guidance for one of my friend

PANKAJ KAUSHIK · New User Joined: 20 May 2012 Posts: 2 Location: INDIA

Hi All,

Please provide your valuable inputs for one of my friend who need some guidance in M/F training.His profile is below -

Year of passing Out -2009
Degree-B.Tech.
Currently -Unemployed
Degree -% -69.7 %
12th class- 58 %
10th class-68%

Interested in taking M/F training to get a job.

Queries from his side -
Is the current market scenario can land him a job in Mainframe after training(he is fully committed for hard work )?
Which Mainframe institute will be best for him as per his academic profile ?

Please help him in begining his career in IT by your valuable comments.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 12:48 am

are you going to attend the institute,
and do the employment interview for him, also?

dick scherrer · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 5:11 am

Hello and welcome to the forum,

It is very difficuly (if even possible) for us to recommend what should be done next. We're pretty good at technical questions, but offering advice to someone in a totally unfamiliar environment is beyond my ability.

As India is a large place, i'd suggest you find someone who has been locally (close to where you/he live) trained and talk with them. Some training institutes help with job placement ater graduation and some do not.

Find someone in the business for a recommendation about which institute(s) are good and which to stay away from. Many are just in it for the money and are not concerned about the quality/depth of their training or if their students are qualified to be hired even as a "fresher".

Is relocation a possibility? There may be better training / employment opportunities elsewhere (again depending on where is currently local).

vasanthz · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:18 pm

Hello,
I too was doing similar research for my cousin brother - 2012 passout.

If your friend is from Chennai then Maples ESM has good mainframe lab. They offer 2 courses, application programming and mainframe administration. They also provide placement assistance/assured palcements for about 5 to 6 companies with fees around 40K - 4 months full time training.

Alternatively, a Java course in NIIT might be better option(3 months, 32K fees + placement assistance in 5 to 6 companies). I know this is a forum for mainframe people. But my "personal opinion" is a Java course in NIIT has more chances of landing in a better job than a Mainframe course.

PANKAJ KAUSHIK · New User Joined: 20 May 2012 Posts: 2 Location: INDIA

Dick Brenholtz,

I'm just looking for some good training institute for him as myself was trained by my parent company as a fresher so not having much about info about institutes.

dick scherrer,
He can relocate.

I want to thank both of you guys for your time.

Vasant,

Thanks for your reply.I have few more queries which I will send you in a PM.