Ask Madhukar - Techbytes

My advice/guidance which I gave to one of the freshers who has just passed out from BE & is looking out for his first job. Thought of posting this here since it might benefit other freshers as well. My letter to the freshly passed out job seeker ----------------------------------------------- Hi, Please correct the spelling "emplotment" - to employment in your resume. I suggest running a spell check on your resume. It would be better if you can attach a word document format of the doc instead of the pdf. Also please add more details about your final year projects & any other projects which you had worked on during your academics. Update these details & re-send the resume to me. I will forward it to my known contacts. But again it can only fetch you interview calls & clearing is fully dependent on how well you perform in the interview. Here are some pointers for you on how to succeed in getting your first job. 1. Prepare well thoroughly on all the below...

Console Games.. Woww.. My mind travels back to the 8 bit era where I played the tennis with my uncle & cousin's son for hours together. It was a great game requiring a lot of hand to eye co-ordination & quick reflexes !! I loved the arcade games such as star galaxy & the car races in the gaming parlors of Mumbai. It definitely ranks as the best 8 bit game for me ! There were others such as the Baseball.. Super Mario.. Donkey Kong.. & Wrestling to name a few. A special mention to the Nintendo's F1 racing game which was an all time favorite for me. Also cannot forget the mach rider bike racing game where you could smash your opponent's bike. We played all this in our Nintendo 8 bit gaming console . Then cam the 16 bit era where Brian Lara Cricket & The Jungle book were two of the greatest games using which I have spent days on end with my cousins in Mumbai & Bangalore game parlours. We got lucky to get our own SEGA 16 bit gaming console where we could ...

I have been a great fan of PC games ever since chilhood. I started with Pac man & Dave on the 386 IBM PC as far as my memory lanes can go back. Then came Windows workstation 3.1 on which I used to enjoy playing Wolfenstien 3D, Prince of Persia on the Intel's 486 processor. Then came the Intel's first Intel Pentium processor 586 which my dad bought it for me with 1 GB hdd & 16 MB RAM. :-) I had a monochrome monitor to start with. The computer service provider had installed Need For Speed 2 game from Electronic Arts in it.