Hi!

I suggest you do the following!

1. Join student organizations. You’d think getting the classwork and degree would be the major goal, but at  university the resources made available to us were much more important. Hands-on experience is pretty hard to get in class, even at a top school. Recruiters will be impressed if you have a project to talk about, especially if you try your hand at leadership.
2. Grades matter but not as much as experience. Again, if you can keep your GPA and have project experience outside of class, getting into industry is a cakewalk. 
3. Get good at programming. The most popular languages in aerospace engineering to code in are MATLAB, Python, and C/C++. MATLAB is probably the one you’ll get the most experience in while doing class projects, but being able to teach yourself a language will be invaluable.
4. If you can, do research. Asking to work with a professor and getting some original work done is an excellent way to build your scientific resume as well as all your trouble-shooting skills. If you want to go to graduate school, this is also highly recommended. I worked with two professors as an undergraduate and did an honors thesis at the end of the road that synthesized a lot of prior work. It helped me grow as an engineer and as a scientist and paved my way to grad school. (Also, bonus if you can get a paying gig.)
5. Apply to internships every summer. Once you get your foot in the door of a company, you may find it’s a pipeline to a full-time position. Some top aerospace organizations that are really competitive are NASA Pathways (a co-op deal), SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Aerospace Corporation, NASA JPL, and tons of smaller contracting companies. Find something, even if it’s a local company. The first internship is the hardest, and you’re a great candidate afterwards.
6. Think about postgrad school. This is not required for most entry level positions, but depending on where you want to end up in the hierarchy you might find that research is your calling. If you want to enter on the job with more responsibility, a two-years M.S. program is worth it.

Hey Abhijit,

As you have mentioned that you had health as well as family problems for 3 years. You should give an more genuine answer as you can basically do anything for that. Yes 2-3 years gap is a big deal but it won't affect your employment unless you are not ready for job. Just focus on making your resume look more productive and less focused on the gap.

Best of luck

Hii,It does to a large extent. In many cases, the company will ask candidates to register on a portal that is either maintained by the company or handled by a third party test provider (for purposes of aptitude/psychometric testing). This makes it easy for the company to apply filters and see how many candidates are above a particular level. Depending on the requirement of the organization, if there are enough people above a good level, they will not really look at other candidates (unless of course, your placement team is competent enough and can fight for more shortlists).

The other way is the traditional sift-through-the-CV approach. In this case, it is more subjective and might give you a chance if you have something brilliant on your CV in addition to your academics. The academic block is pretty conspicuous and will almost definitely not be ignored by the company.

These theories hold true for the first few companies on campus though and the rest, in many cases tend to call almost all the applicants for a screening round (group discussion, case study, short interview). In that case, the second shortlist will mostly be a function of your performance in the screening round and your CV won’t matter (unless of course your CV is brilliant).

Having said everything though, placement processes are mostly random and you cannot possibly generalize/predict trends. So, it is best to prepare well, work hard on your CV and hope for the best. If you are sufficiently driven and have good communication skills but an average CV, you will most probably miss out on a few calls. But, you have to be good enough to convert the first call that you get. Funny things have happened during placements and you won’t want to be engulfed in so much negativity that you end up missing good opportunities.

Hope that helps.

Hello aspirant

 As per you query.you want to take admission in cv raman college of engg bbsr.your rank is 130000 .you have a chance to get a admission in cv raman .go through a counsilling procedure  .you will get in 1 st round .if you dont get seat in first round dont be panic. wait for second round .surely you get a seat in cvrce .

Best of luck

If you wish to prepare you can make it to the preperation of Banks or IES or research work itself. It totally depends upon your own interests and no body can tell you that. So just prepare your own mind set and prepare for it. You need to check whats good n not and so go for it. good luck. 

If you are planning to make a career in management and looking for a certification course then you can do a course in Microsoft Excel. That's the prerequisite for any company to hire a management graduate and if you have a certification in that it would be really helpful. There are other things you can learn like analytics and different tools but it's not the right time to do that. Get certified in Excel first. 

All the very best