Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Barcelona Trip


We went to Barcelona for 5 days. It was a great experience. Barcelona is vibrant city with nice people. We enjoyed a lot, relaxed a bit on the sea side, walked in the Ramblas and ate Tapas. Just fantastic. European city with a touch of Güell. A man gave the city a new identity. After Paris this is one the city I want to go again and again. I put some pictures in my flick album.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Career in Germany

Germany is a land of intellectuals. From the history of science, arts and culture it is evident that people of Germany invested their time and money in the betterment of their society. Therefore, after the complete demolition of 2nd world war they are well able to keep themselves as one of the main contributor to the world economy because of there excellence in science and technology.

Now the question arises weather this country could offer you a better education to cope with your career building in this new age of global competition, where Indian and Chinese professional are flooding to capture most of the jobs.

To get the question answered we need to know the style of the German education system briefly. After crossing the school level a student can chose to go for a university or a vocational course which includes all type engineering skills. Whereas the universities they only offer you education on basic sciences and arts. There are very few technical universities where one get an advanced education on engineering subjects. Here is the drawback of the systems. Medium students who all visit a vocational school never able to get an advance level training and become labors instead of masters. Only the university graduates who are very few in numbers are able to become good professionals. This is one of reason why Germans are importing high skill professional instead of making them at home.

So before you think about carrying out career here you should go for a university education which is good and up to the world standard. Language is one of the obstacles here, but as soon as you spend some time on it you could be master of it, because this is a very scientific language. Having a German degree from German university and good knowledge of English and German will give you a good start up in choosing a good career in this country.

Now the idea of global career, will it be possible from here? Theoretically it is possible. Because German companies are the world leaders, so if you start up here you can end up to the global market. But in practice due to the conservative society and the strategies it may take a while to be in a good position.