Boosting Career Opportunities For Engineers Through E-School Competitions

As the world experiences the fourth industrial revolution, engineering is now at par with management and is playing a big role in leading any company towards success. Keeping this in view, companies today are going all out to get the best engineering talent on board and also nurture and encourage the creative skills of young professionals. How? By #GoingBeyondResume and switching to methods such as hiring challenges, coding competitions, case challenges, competitions, etc.  Let’s take a look at these competitions. 

E-school competitions - gateway to better career opportunities for engineers

Competitions and hackathons provide a myriad of career opportunities for engineering students and early-career engineers to showcase the best of their talents. Below are the types of competitions for Engineers that are all the rage amongst the community. 

1. Hiring Challenges

These multi-stage competitions are designed to hire the best candidates from across the country. Since it makes the process more efficient and quick, this mode is being adopted by both start-ups and established firms. The top performers get cash prizes along with PPIs, internships or direct job offers too. 

Here is a list of hiring challenges open to Engineering students and working professionals. While most of these competitions are open to Indian students, Flipkart GRiD is open to campuses in the USA too! Take a look.

Do you know? 

Walmart hired 165 female coders through Walmart CodeHers 2021 and raised the share of female workers in the Walmart Global India Tech team from 35% to 56%! 

2. Innovation Challenges

If your ideas can solve complex business problems, innovation challenges are your cup of tea! These competitions help students to showcase their tinkering ideas while they get mentored by the who’s who of the industry apart from winning amazing prizes. Have a look at some of the competitions. 

3. Quizzes

For those who love to don their ‘know-it-all’ hats, quizzes are the go-to events. Winners get cash prizes, goodies, and more! Following are some quiz competitions where you can put your knowledge to the test. 

4. Case Study competitions

Usually conducted as team events, case study competitions give students the opportunity to provide working solutions to real-life problems that the company or the industry is currently facing. The competition poses a problem statement or a case to the participating teams and they have to frame a strategy to solve the issue. Here are a few of the case study competitions for engineering students: 

5. Hackathons

These competitions are designed for passionate professionals or tech-savvy students who can hack their way through to find a unique solution to a problem. Here is a list of all the hackathons. Watch out for hackathons that also offer Pre-Placement Interviews and/or job offers to the winning/deserving teams. 

Also read: Upcoming Hackathons 2022 Every Engineering Student Must Know!

How do E-school competitions provide dream career opportunities for engineers?

Engineering is all about ‘problem-solving through technology and enhancing one’s intellect’. So whether it is creating out of thin air through coding or building mega machines, a true engineer loves to problem solve. However, due to various factors, many engineers land jobs that fail to provide career satisfaction. This calls for a change in the recruitment landscape and hackathons, hiring challenges, case study competitions, and challenges have certainly come to the rescue. They prove to be helpful in the following ways:

• Hiring objectively and quickly: The new hiring strategies steer away from unconscious bias. Thanks to the open competitions, the participants are assessed purely on merit. So whether you are from a top college or from a tier 3 or tier 4 institute, if you have the right talent, you get to compete on equal grounds.  Also, these methods speed up the hiring process. While the traditional route entailed screening of resumes and candidates’ endless waiting period to get a call back from the HR manager, the ‘new-age’ hiring is quick, transparent, and also cost-effective for the company.
• Tapping into the unreachable talent: Methods such as online coding competitions, hackathons, case challenges, etc. democratize the hiring process making them accessible to job-seekers from any nook and corner of the country. Since most of the competitions are conducted online, all you have to have is a screen and an internet connection and you are all set to participate. 

So get ready to rack your brain and reap the benefits of all the amazing online coding competitions, case challenges and hackathons lined up for you. Because it's time to show your mettle to the world!