Update your skills to beat recession – from Dice.com

An excellent piece of advice and backed with statistics from dice.com. It is extremely important to keep yourself upto-date in VLSI field too. BTW, CVC offers the relveant training on VLSI functional verification, see: sv-verif.blogspot.com for upcoming classes.

Electronic Business: How do the top worries for technology professionals in 2009 compare to those in last year's survey results? Was "keeping skills up to date" at the top last year?
Silver: We didn’t ask that question last year, however, we’ve asked similar questions many times and keeping skills up to date is always a huge concern for technology professionals. There is an obsolescence issue with technology. In order to stay relevant and continue to increase your earnings potential, adding skills is the most direct path to higher compensation. Updating and broadening one’s skill set is important in any economy, but with the job market softening and the economy declining, technology professionals need to be as up to date as possible to have the best chance at a new job should they fall victim to a layoff.

Answer	Responses  from total survery, %	Responses from EEs only, %
Keeping skills up-to-date/being valuable to employer	22%	23%
Position elimination	20%	21%
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http://www.edn.com/article/CA6637653.html

Certificate course on Functional Verification …basics to ASIC verification using SystemVerilog

Certificate course on

Functional Verification

…basics to ASIC

verification using

SystemVerilog

CVC is about to launch a 10-day certificate course on Functional Verification covering SystemVerilog in depth. Broadly it covers the following topics:

• Comprehensive introduction to Functional Verification (CFV)
• SystemVerilog basics (SVB)
• SystemVerilog Assertion (SVA)
• Verification Using SystemVerilog (VSV)
• Verification Methodology (VM)

Duration

Here is a detailed breakdown of the course with duration. Note that we have several “mini projects” tightly embedded in the course that helps in mastering topics learned so far in the course. This is on top of the regular labs that are part of the training. The detailed breakup of topics and labs is covered in next sections of this proposal.

Topic	Duration
Comprehensive Functional Verification	1.5 days
Mini Project I	0.5 day
SystemVerilog Basics	0.5 day
SystemVerilog Assertions	1.5 days
Mini Project II	0.5 day
Verification using SystemVerilog	2.0 days
Mini Project III	0.5 day
Verification Methodology	2.0 days
Project IV	1.0 day

Schedule

Tentative: Feb 09-Mar09

Contact

Send an email to: cvc.training@gmail.com and/or training@noveldv.com for more details, cost etc. Or call us at: +91-9916176014

Excerpts on Recession, IT industry and students’ choices

 

Education Plus The HINDU

Time to upgrade/hone your skills!

…”The industry and the market will definitely look up and in the meantime the students should not lose focus. They should utilise the time to upgrade themselves with higher education. The IT boom had relatively closed the door for higher education and it is now time to get back to it,” says the Secretary of GVP.

 

Keeping aside dreams of financial independence, several freshers are looking at sharpening their resumes with certificate courses.

“Upgrade and wait till the temporary phase ends” to emerge stronger.

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Emphasis will also be given to IT education. This will help the state develop a talent pool, so that when the downturn ends, it will be ready to cater to the needs of the industry.

……………..West Bengal IT Minister Debesh Das

Need for specialized courses

Industry sources want the leading private institutions to introduce a one-year PG programme for IT students passing out of their colleges this year

“Since recruitments are expected to be on a low side, and the students need to be gainfully occupied till the industry recovers,

 

Predicted recovery

“…Students should shape their skills for employment in 2010,” reasons a communications manager of a leading IT company.

It is estimated that by 2010 things will look up and the students should utilise this time by taking up higher studies. All these years we have been floating in a bubble and the actual scenario will surface, post recession. Hence, students should arm themselves with sufficient subject knowledge, to take the first 15 per cent cream of the renewed IT sector,”

  -- Placement officer of Andhra University

Recession and existing VLSI workforce – quotes from industry watch

The IT sector can never crash, as still 95 per cent of its area is left unexplored. The recession is only a temporary phase... The people who are on the bench need not get depressed and instead work on improving their skills.

--- The Vice-Chancellor of JNTU

 

“For the excess resources, the option of going on leave without pay for higher studies or pursuing other interests has been provisioned,” Head of HR Practices @Sasken explained.