{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-article-js","path":"/echos/Echo_1/Article_5","result":{"data":{"strapiArticle":{"title":"Changing Global Employment Trends in the 21st Century","type":"alumni_event","content":"#### Changing Global Employment Trends in the 21st Century\n\n![Screenshot 2020-07-14 at 6.19.03 PM-min](https://res.cloudinary.com/bits-echo/image/upload/v1594731024/Screenshot_2020_07_14_at_6_19_03_PM_min_bb8ad3e652.png)\n\nOn the 10th February, 2020, Mr. K Vijay Rao, an alumnus of BITS Pilani, addressed the students of Hyderabad campus about the changing trends in the employment scenario. Currently, the President of the All India Professional Congress (AIPC) for the Gurgaon Chapter, Mr Rao is a professional turned entrepreneur, with many years of experience in the industry.\n\nTalking about the state of today’s employment sce- nario. Mr. Rao emphasized on the fact that technology and globalization control employment opportunities across the globe. The impact of technology, as rightly pointed out by him, could be seen in every field, ranging from construction and logistics to the cutting-edge ones like biomedical and bio-engineering. He stressed on the importance of updating and honing one’s soft skills, including communication, teamwork and problem solving, to ensure enhanced job security and professional growth.\nThis informative and interactive talk by Mr. Rao provided meaningful insights into the ever-growing competitive world and also the importance of continuous upskilling to ensure a successful career.\n\n#### BITS Colloquium Talk\n\n![Screenshot 2020-07-14 at 6.19.56 PM-min](https://res.cloudinary.com/bits-echo/image/upload/v1594731025/Screenshot_2020_07_14_at_6_19_56_PM_min_862ba91fa5.png)\n\nThe first Institute Colloquium of the semester was held in the Hyderabad Campus on 28th February, 2020 and featured Prof. Govindan Rangarajan, an alumnus of the Pilani Campus. He is the Director of the Indo French Centre for Applied Mathematics and also the Convener for the Indian Institute of Science Mathematics Initiative. His colloquium address explored various ways of measuring research output of individuals and institutions and elaborated on practices that could help institutions increase their rankings on the global scale. He explained the use of impact factor in evaluating individual researchers. Initially designed for librarians to choose between which journals to keep, it slowly developed into a metric to measure an individual’s as well as an institution’s research capabilities. However, as he stated, the impact factor had its demerits. It varied from subject to subject and between sub-topics within each subject. Furthermore, he shared how a small chunk of papers published in a journal contributed majorly to its impact factor.\n\n#### Interactive session with Alumni\n\nAn interactive session with Pranav Ramarao, a Computer Science alumnus of the 2011 batch was organized at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus on January 24th, 2020. Pranav is currently working on monetizing Youtube in NBU countries at Google, Mountain View.\nHe shared his various experiences of his college days - how he spent the first year focusing on his CGPA, developed an interest in competitive coding and delved deeper into it in his second year, and also how he tried to convince as many people as he could to join him. In his third year, he breezed through his Microsoft interviews and got a PPO from Microsoft soon after his internship there. Further, he added that he appeared for the GRE and wanted to pursue his desire of doing an MS from abroad. Pranav narrated the story of how he was rejected from all the universities he applied to and how it felt like he'd hit rock bottom. He then had to formulate an entirely new plan.\n"}},"pageContext":{"id":"Article_5"}}}