Why I Skipped On-campus College Placements
Summary
TLDRThe speaker shares their personal experience of skipping college placements, emphasizing the importance of having a backup plan and exploring off-campus opportunities. They discuss their college's lack of support, a toxic environment, and the absence of industry-standard placements as reasons for their decision. The speaker encourages leveraging open source contributions and learning in public to build a strong portfolio, which can lead to better job opportunities and even remote work, ultimately saving time and advancing one's career.
Takeaways
- 🎉 The speaker promotes events on 'classroom.org/events' where participants can win prizes like MacBooks and remote job opportunities.
- 📝 There are various challenges and events, including blogging, with specific themes like sharing university experiences, offering a chance to win a keyboard and other prizes.
- 💻 An 'Open Source Fest' is mentioned, which could lead to remote jobs, stipends, real-world experience, and mentorship.
- 🎓 The speaker advises students to have a backup plan with college placements, especially if the college has good opportunities.
- 🚫 The speaker shares personal reasons for not participating in college placements, including a lack of support and a toxic environment at their college.
- 📑 The speaker criticized the college's resume template and faced a defensive response from the placement coordinator, indicating a lack of constructive feedback.
- 🏫 The speaker felt their college did not value them and did not provide opportunities that met industry standards.
- 🔄 The speaker suggests 'going with the flow' in a toxic university environment, focusing on what co-workers and community members think of you instead.
- 🌐 The speaker emphasizes the importance of skills and representation, stating that with the right skills and presentation, finding a job should not be difficult.
- 🌟 The speaker highlights the benefits of contributing to open source projects, which can lead to good job offers, as they and their friends experienced.
- 📈 The speaker predicts a trend of people working in India for a couple of years before moving to other companies or outside India, building their portfolio along the way.
- 📚 The speaker saved time during their university years by getting job offers in their third year through open source contributions and public learning.
Q & A
What are the amazing events mentioned in the script where participants can win MacBooks and remote jobs?
-The events are hosted on the website classroom.org/events, featuring various challenges such as blogging, where participants can win MacBooks, stipends, and other prizes.
What is the special topic event in the script where participants can share their university experience?
-There is a special event where participants can share their university experience, which offers a chance to win a mechanical keyboard.
What are the prizes mentioned for the events on the website classroom.org/events?
-The prizes include MacBooks, Mac Minis, mice, cash prizes, and remote job opportunities.
What is the Open Source Fest mentioned in the script and what does it offer?
-The Open Source Fest is an event that offers remote jobs, MacBooks, stipends, real-world experience, and mentorship opportunities.
Why did the speaker choose not to participate in college placements?
-The speaker chose not to participate in college placements because they felt their college was not supportive, had a toxic environment, and did not provide good on-campus opportunities according to industry standards.
What was the speaker's issue with the resume template provided by their college?
-The speaker found the resume template provided by the college to be too long, suggesting that a one-page resume is more appropriate and that the provided template would likely be rejected.
How did the speaker handle the college's lack of support and toxic environment?
-The speaker chose to cut off completely from the college environment, focusing on building their skills and opportunities outside of the college's influence.
What advice does the speaker give to students who are not getting respect or valued in their college?
-The speaker advises students to 'go with the flow' and not waste energy arguing in a toxic environment, focusing instead on what the community and future co-workers think.
How did the speaker secure opportunities without participating in college placements?
-The speaker secured opportunities by contributing to open source projects, learning in public, and building a strong portfolio, which led to offers during their third year of university.
What is the speaker's perspective on off-campus opportunities and remote work?
-The speaker believes that with the right skills and representation, finding a job should not be an issue, especially with the increase in remote work opportunities.
What does the speaker suggest for students who are looking for job opportunities after graduation?
-The speaker suggests that students should focus on building their skills, contribute to open source projects, and learn in public to secure good job opportunities.
Outlines
🎉 Monthly Events and Prizes
The speaker introduces a series of monthly events organized by the platform, where participants have the opportunity to win prizes such as MacBooks, remote job offers, and stipends exceeding one lakh. These events include blogging challenges and special topics for sharing university experiences, with the potential to win additional prizes like mechanical keyboards. The speaker encourages viewers to visit the events page on classroom.org for more information and to participate in the ongoing Open Source Fest and future hackathons, emphasizing the value of real-world experience, mentorship, and the availability of remote job opportunities.
🤔 Skipping College Placements
The speaker addresses the question of why they chose not to participate in college placements, explaining that it was not a recommendation for others to follow. They advocate for having a backup plan, especially if college placements are good. The speaker shares their personal experience of a lack of support from their college, including a poor resume template and unhelpful interactions with placement coordinators. They also mention the absence of good on-campus placement opportunities and a toxic environment as reasons for not participating. The speaker advises viewers to 'go with the flow' in such situations and not to waste energy arguing, focusing instead on what their future co-workers and community members think. They conclude by highlighting the importance of skills representation and the opportunities available in the remote work environment, suggesting that with the right skills, finding a job should not be an issue.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Events
💡MacBooks
💡Remote Jobs
💡Stipend
💡Blogging Challenges
💡University Experience
💡Open Source Fest
💡Hackathons
💡Mentorship
💡College Placements
💡Off-Campus Opportunities
💡Toxic Environment
💡Constructive Criticism
💡Portfolio
💡Remote Work
Highlights
Amazing events are being organized with opportunities to win MacBooks, remote jobs, and stipends.
Events are held monthly and can be found at classroom.org/events.
Participants can engage in blogging challenges with rewards like MacBooks and other prizes.
There's a special topic event for sharing university experiences with a chance to win a keyboard.
Prizes include Mac Minis, mice, cash, and mentorship opportunities.
The speaker skipped college placements due to personal reasons and lack of good on-campus opportunities.
The speaker advises having a backup plan and not to solely rely on off-campus opportunities.
College activities were below average compared to opportunities provided, but some friends benefited.
The speaker's college was not supportive, with a lack of constructive feedback on resume templates.
A toxic environment and lack of respect can lead to cutting off ties with the college.
The speaker predicts a lack of good on-campus opportunities and sought industry-standard experiences.
Recommendation to go with the flow in a toxic university environment without arguing.
The importance of what co-workers and community members think rather than college opinions.
The speaker saved initial years of university by getting offers in the third year through open source contributions.
Many people, including the speaker's friends, got good offers by contributing to open source.
Skills representation is crucial for finding a job without difficulty in the remote work environment.
The speaker encourages viewers to engage with the events and share their questions in the comments.
Transcripts
now before we get started i wanna just
make sure that you know that we are
running some amazing events where you
can win macbooks remote jobs uh more
than one lakhs of like stipend and stuff
and uh we do these every month so you
can check out uh the events page com
with the double m classroom.org
events and you can scroll down you can
see that we are running so many nice
nice nice events hashtag blogging
challenges we're giving our macbooks and
stuff so you can write a blog if you're
watching it in august so you can check
out that there's uh there are some
tracks there's also a special topic
where you can share your university
experience and even a key chron uh
keyboard so you can see we give you some
mac mini some mouses cash prizes as well
so if you're watching it in some other
month this would be updated and you can
check out for the latest prizes but uh
we're running some pretty amazing events
so make sure you check it out also
running let's say an open source fest
so all these things you can find you
know in the events page right now we're
running the open source fest we'll be
running some hackathons in the future if
you're watching this video in the future
so open source first you can get remote
jobs you know macbooks stipend and real
world experience and mentorship and all
these other things okay mentorship
events are here available here as well
so check out com
the classroom.events node as well so
looking forward to seeing your blogs and
giving you some nice prizes and swag
hey everyone welcome back to another
video and in this video i'm gonna answer
a question that i get asked a lot now
that i've graduated
so student asked me now why did you skip
college placements why did you not you
know sit for your college placements or
whatever so i'm in a way saying that if
i skipped it you should too
don't do it it's actually the opposite
you should have a backup plan always and
if your college has good placements or
decent placements uh definitely have a
backup plan in case you're not getting
off-campus opportunities right but there
are plenty of off-campus opportunities
so i would not want you to worry about
that you can check out my previous
videos around it but this video is
focused around why i me specifically did
not sit for college placements so the
the thing questions you know the
questions people ask is canal that you
didn't send for college placements so
um
did you not get like scared that or if
you don't get a job off campus or or
whatever
and
you know it's um
it's interesting because
you know it's not just about like
college placements most of my college
activities were pretty below average
as compared to the opportunity the
college provides to students
having said that there are some nice
opportunities that my college to provide
to a lot of people including my friends
also right um and that is the reason i
mentioned in the pre in the beginning of
this video that okay do sit for college
placements
but
in my case the the the real reason the
answer is that the college is not very
supportive my my college it was not very
supportive um i still realize i still
remember on the college mailing list
they sent a resume template the
placement coordinators or whatever and
they were like this is the resume
template it was like three four pages or
something and i replied that um
excuse me sir this is not a good
template resume should be one page and
this is if students follow this template
it would be rejected
so that those the person told me okay
when you get a job then you tell me you
know let me do my work or whatever so
defensive you know rather than taking
constructive criticism other than that
the professors and most of the teachers
um
you know not not very supportive
it's it's just um
it's not very good you know so wherever
i feel like
you know you're not being valued be that
your college or university or whatever
it does not matter where the place is if
you're not being treated with respect
i cut off completely
um another reason why i did not sign up
for college placements is
my college is like i don't know they
sent one single form like 100 times
fill this form we will not let you sit
in exams fill this form i sent them
information 100 times you know placement
information or whatever so many times
like they were asking for it
the the major reason for why i did not
sit uh the major reason the obvious one
is there are no good on campus
placements in my college um
i wanted something
you know very
like
according to the industry standard
around the world uh my college
definitely does not provide something
like that
um
that's basically about it if you have a
toxic environment in your university
i'll just recommend
go with the flow don't argue
just just go with the flow it's four
years of college life
whatever they say does not mean anything
because what your co-workers think about
you what the community members think
about you that matters quite a lot
so wherever you're not getting respect
don't uh waste your energy over there in
hindi if i say
yes sir okay sir
that bilkul bill cool cool
something like that
um say i don't waste much energy to
prove them anything you don't need to
prove anyone anything
um
it's basically about why i did not sign
up for college placements bad
environment bad culture
not taking criticism
lack of growth not lack of good on
campus opportunities i think i think i
predict pretty decent off campus
um moving to uk after right after
graduation uh i don't see that much
often on linkedin most of the time
people who get these like great
opportunities they work at fang in india
or some other companies for two one year
one and a half year then they skip to
other companies in india then some other
company in india then some other company
in india and then they move outside
after building their portfolio i saved
these initial three four years of my
university by directly getting offers in
my third year how i did it um open
source
just learning in public and not just me
it's not just i who did it there's so
many people my friends everyone
who contributed open source and got nice
offers so i think
you know if you if you have the skills
if you
represent your skills um in a nice way
you would not have
difficulty in
you know
finding a job that's not going to be an
issue um because the remote work
environment now a lot of opportunities
have opened up for you so get on it
and uh if you have any questions let me
know in the comment section below but
that was the answer to my to the
question that i get quite a lot where i
skipped off on campus placements um
yeah hopefully you know i mean like uh
thankfully college life is over now so
exciting times ahead but uh yeah make
sure you like share and subscribe and
i'll see you in the next one check out
the links in description below and
comment if you have any questions
and yeah
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