Return to India Career Event: An observation

Attended a return two India career fair yesterday. This was very different experience than last event. Last event was disorganized, too many people and no structure. This was a well organized and well focused event.

Some interesting observations

1. Many people, who really are not sure about returning, demand that they be made managers
in India irrespetive of management express. Mostly they do not have any leadership
experience but believe that they can still manage, funny but true !

2. Too many middle managers from Sun Microsystems and HP looking to return to India
in Cognizant than their own Offshore Centers. I wonder, what's up with that.
Must have spoken to at least 20 of these people. Many were fishing, but most were very
serious and looking for options.

3. Twenty Graduates from Carnegie Mellon University attended the event. All of them were,
fresh gradudates looking to move back to India. Very interesting side benefit of H1-CAP,
Indian companies are benefiting by getting access to top talent quickly.

4. Met many old friends and contacts from SantaClara. Most of them are looking, fishing and
trying to understand what can they do at Cognizant type of companies.
It is so interesting see these MBA's amazed after realizing that more than 80% of Staff
functions are done in India. Cognizant do need MBA's but in Analyst role.

The experience was interesting and delightful, learned new things, overall a happy experience.