One day an acquaintance came to meet Chanakya and said to him excitedly “do you know what I just heard about your friend?” “Just wait a while”, Chanakya replied. “Before you tell me anything I would like you to go through a little test which I call the triple filter test”. “What’s that?” asked the acquaintance. “I will tell you”, Chanakya said. “Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you are going to say. That is why I call it the Triple filter test. The first filter is ‘Truth’. Are you sure that what you are about to tell me is true?” “No”, the man said. “Actually, I just heard about it.” “All right”, said Chanakya. “So you don’t really know if it is true or not. Now lets us try the second Filter, the filter of ‘Goodness’. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?” “No, on the contrary..” “So”, Chanakya continued, “You wanted to tell me something bad about him but you are not certain it is true. You may s...
IT slowdown: Engg grads unemployment risk Times of India | 2 days ago | It isn't intended to crush young dreams. But for over a million engineering students who are stepping into placement season this month, Nasscom President Som Mittal's confirmation that IT hiring will indeed decline 22% to 1.8 lakh this year does just that. "Ten years ago, we could hire half the graduating engineering students, but now, there is global uncertainty, automation, non-linear growth," Mittal told ET even as a new engineering placement season gets underway in a rather bleak economic backdrop. "We cannot provide jobs to all." As it is, a fifth to a third of engineering graduates run the risk of being unemployed. Many others will take jobs well below their technical qualifications, an ET special feature had reported recently. That's the environment in which hundreds of non-IIT and second-tier colleges are now getting into a placement overdrive. They ar...
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