Dear Rising,
While I respect the efforts of members like Ankur Garg, Rahul Bansal etc. to encourage you by boosting your confidence, but nonetheless, I will tell you the bare truth about our profession's current job market position.
While graduates may quickly get interview calls for their first job, we don't get calls even after 6 months ! Even if we get calls and land up in an interview, the interviewer asks us the most difficult questions on Corporate laws, expecting us to be experts. This makes us feel more nervous. Even if we get a job, the entry level salary is almost equal to or less than what graduates earn ! Trainees with PCS earn just 2.5 k (some are not even paid !) and trainees with a company can earn somewhere around 8000-15000. Even this 15k is considered a princely sum ! Even when they pay you peanuts, they treat you like slaves and may even humiliate or insult you for not being an 'expert'.
I have attempted my last two Groups of CS Professionals in June - 2013 and I know that I will surely become a qualified CS on August 25, 2013. Currently, I am highly leveraged. For paying Home Loan, I am furiously searching for some full time job of an Assistant Company Secretary. I have e-mailed my CV to more than 100 Company Secretaries but I am yet to get a call of interview from them ! You know my mother is so much worrying about my future ? She remains awake entire night worrying about my employment status as I am already 27 years old and I have just finished my Management Training, where I was earning just Rs. 8 k !
Just to make the two ends meet, I have been forced to take a decision to join a Call Centre ! Here, freshers get Rs. 15K ! This amount is considered princely for CS trainees. These BPO's give a good amount of specialised training to freshers. In our profession, they don't even train you ! They expect us to be experts at the beginning stage itself !
I know that I will get a CS job somewhere when results are declared and I get qualified.
Even you will get the CS job when you finish the CS Proffessional Exam. Before fininshing your CS Prof., it is almost practicably impossible to land a CS Job !!!
As you are facing financial constraints, I advise you to obtain a non-CS job somewhere and finish your CS studies while working. Fininshing of CS studies is important as in the long run, your salary will be many times more than the graduates.
Regards,
Harsh Bhatt