Question: As a fresher, we are facing a lot of problem in finding a decent job. Everyone ask for experience of more than two years. How can we find a good job?
Answer: Industries cannot survive without hiring fresh graduates, but not all of the companies hire new graduates on a daily basis, sometimes freshers are recruited once a year or quarterly. You can not expect a job immediately after finishing the course. You may need to show some patience.
Question: Do I need a completion certificate or module completion?
Answer: You need to finish the modules to be eligible for the placement, but it is strongly advised to get the certificates to stand-out from the competitors during the selection process. Why would a company give preference to the candidate who can not complete the certification? Right!
Question: Which areas like email marketing, inbound marketing, SMM, SEO, SEM in digital marketing have the most demand in the industry?
Answer: Digital Marketing is an evolving field, and you can notice new methods and tools of digital marketing keep coming regularly in the market due to the changes in the technology, and one area does not remain in demand for a long period. It is advised to gain exposure and experience on maximum areas of digital marketing than doing hyper specialisation. You will get specialised over the period of your career.
Question: Which in your opinion is better for acquiring key Digital marketing skills - working at a Digital Marketing Firm or working on the client side at an individual company?
Answer: You should look at the digital marketing team's size in the company and not whether it is a digital marketing firm or a company. Big companies have a large number of in-house digital marketing teams.
Question: How long does the placement team support us in finding jobs?
Answer: We will keep you assisting for many months after you finish the course or certification or until you get a job and also no restriction on the number of interviews.
Question: Why am I not getting calls from Digital Vidya?
Answer: We do coordination with the company and follow-up regularly with companies HR or recruitment team to arrange the interviews after you apply to one or many companies. It is the most important activity of our daily work, and the ability to arrange the interviews determine our recruiter's success. Our daily work starts in the morning with the review of how many candidates are shortlisted for the discussion and plan to do the follow-up. We call the candidates whenever needed during the placement process.
It is worth mentioning that many companies keep control of interview process with themselves and directly contact you, and sometimes they ask us to coordinate for the interviews. It depends on the decision of the company.
What is the follow-up process of already applied jobs?
Answer: You do not have to do anything, we do the follow-up with companies.
Question: In the starting, of course, we were told you have a partnership with big companies like but I can not see any company on the list?
Answer: Big companies do not hire freshers every-day, the current list of hiring companies consists of niche, well-funded start-ups, profitable digital marketing firms who hire based on new projects.
You will see some of the best companies from India in few weeks, but they will be 'extremely selective' in calling the candidates for the interviews based on academics, college, school, English communication skills.
We will not be able to send many of you, and we need to do a screening at our level and send the best candidates.
Start-ups and small companies are flexible in their selection criteria and easy to get the entry.
Question: Having XX yrs of sales exp and fresher in digital marketing what best package can I expect?
Answer: You will be considered as a fresher and may not get the hike on the current salary.
Question: Can I get a home-based job?
Answer: Home-based jobs are available for the experts in the particular field, and it does not make a sense for a company to hire home-based freshers due to extensive training required for freshers.
However, we have some companies who are open to experimentation of home-based jobs, and we will be able to offer such jobs occasionally.
We already posted some home-based jobs but not got any responses because salary offered was not great, and the students wanted good salary while sitting at home. You can not have both things.
Question: Can I get a freelancer job?
Answer: Same as Above.
Question: How can get a job in digital marketing after a gap in my career of 2/3/4 years?
Answer: You can start as a fresher in digital marketing and should be willing to accept a lower salary than you were getting in the past, then you can certainly find a job eventually.
Question: We are seeing that most small companies are coming offering under Rs. 4 lakh per annum. Are bigger companies likely to come?
Answer: Infosys, IBM, Accenture, Capgemini and other such companies offer Rs.3 Lacs per annum package to campus placement students from Tier II, Tier III Tier IV colleges and universities.
Fresh graduates from IITs and RECs/NITs get a huge salary, but they are the expectation and not a rule.
The average salary of Rs. 1.8 lacs to 3 lacs is the decent salary for digital marketing freshers.
We have few companies in the hiring list on the placement page that are willing to offer up to Rs. 3- 4 lacs salary for freshers but surprisingly students are not applying due to location or other personal issues.
We are building a network of companies on a daily basis so you will keep seeing more and more good companies in coming months.
Question: What kind of pre-placement and pre-interview training and guidance is provided by Digital Vidya to increase our prospects of getting a good placement?
Answer: We will act on this and come up with some solution. It is a good suggestion.
Question: Will companies prefer the candidate with B.Tech vs. Candidate with Graduation +Certificate course in Digital Marketing for SEO.
Answer: It depends on the business of the company and nature of the projects/Products/Services.
Sometimes, companies want technical graduates, and at the same time, it is considered negative for another project.
The recruitment process can take time and it is normal for the companies to ask for the resumes and not give feedback. I am doing recruitment for last 18 years and I have not found the solution or magic pill to address this problem. It is same across industries and what we can do is it to remind them on a regular basis.
Our team has daily tasks assigned to keep follow-up. You should also remember at the same time that many companies are desperately hiring and calling candidates directly without informing Digital Vidya. We have our Digital Vidya students getting job- offers and candidates are joining on a weekly basis.
It also happens that your resume was not found suitable based on company evaluation, and companies never give feedback on the rejected candidates. They only interview the candidates that they want to interview. No Feedback for a long-time means the resume is not short-listed.
You can find numerous discussions on Facebook/Linkedin about the companies not responding about the job application status, and no one has found the answer!
I can tell the reason from my analysis and it is that a lack of dedicated manpower to respond to each and every candidate when you have hundreds of application via email. Recruiters need to spend the entire day in just responding to the candidate resume without arranging the interviews.
It is not that companies are not talking to us or they are not interviewing our students, it is just the process takes the time or plan changes afterward. We are adding new companies every-day so our students get better options and our students are getting the jobs.
Few our students even refused the job-offers and absconded from the interview process at the last moment that made us look bad in front of clients. I am just sharing the other side of the same story!
written by Rakesh Ghumatkar
I came across an article recently – ‘Start-ups Are Not Cool Enough In India’s Marriage Market Yet’ ‘ [Report]
It is obvious that when you are young and ambitious then big and famous companies are the first choice as an employer and it is difficult to avoid the attraction of having a big name on your resume. Their salary and welfare benefits are good and sometimes even great.
We work with many start-ups because they need our services and approach us to provide manpower services. We also work at the same time with established companies and few of the famous IT companies in India.
The article mentioned above raised a question in my mind that why do we work with start-ups and enjoy working with most of them?
I found some reasons that make us work as a ‘recruitment service provider’ with Start-ups:
I feel that the reasons that excite us to work with start-ups are valid for a software engineer to work with start-ups. You get great benefits of working with big companies, but start-ups are worth working at least for a few years in your career to gain the valuable start-up experience and perspective.
I am in a position to notice a trend in the last few years that many mid-career professionals, after many years of experience of working with CMM Level and big multinationals, are willing to work with start-ups to get the excitement and zing in their career.
Source:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140820160650-9705561-why-should-you-work-with-technology-start-ups-from-the-experiences-of-a-recruiter/
Candidate having 2-3 yrs of experience accepts to go for an interview; we request him to either attend or do not attend, but please do not drop at the last moment. This discussion happened last evening. Now, we get a call from the candidate that he met with the accident so can not go! He is in his senses to call and inform that he cannot go after the accident.
I am surprised that in last 10-14 years of recruitment experience, I have found that candidates between 0-5 yrs of experience always meet with the accident or fall sick at the last moment, or someone dies- mostly ‘grandmother’ or ‘grandfather’ or distant relative or they have to go suddenly out of the station! This needs research to know what’s happening with our young generation in IT.
I also experienced interestingly that candidate with five years + experiences mostly do not meet with last minutes accident or do not suffer the tragic death of a dear relative or feel sick at the last moment. I think that after five years of experience somehow things change due blessings of some invisible power in this world! They mostly attend interviews on time.
-Rakesh Ghumatkar