Manual testing jobs for freshers in AI era is a search full of fear right now. One number sits behind most of it. Sixty-five percent. A report released in September 2026 says AI can handle up to 65 percent of the workload in test case creation. If you just joined a testing team, or you…
By ASLAM RAHMAN | 21 October 2026 Last updated: 21 October 2026. Exam dates come from IIT Madras and can change. Please check the official page before you act. GATE 2027 preparation plan is what a final-year Electrical student from Rourkela asked me for last week. He pasted a screenshot of the exam dates and…
The best city for freshers from Odisha is not the one with the biggest number on the offer letter. It is the city where your money, your mind and your family stay in good shape for the first two years. I have seen this go right. I have also seen it go very wrong. Last…
Agentic AI jobs for freshers is what a final-year student from Cuttack typed into WhatsApp last month, under a screenshot of a LinkedIn post. I’ll call her Smruti. The post said demand for agentic AI engineers in India had gone up 260 percent. Under it she had written one line. “Sir, should I stop applying…
Infosys DSE vs Cognizant GenC Next vs Wipro Turbo is the question a final-year student from Sambalpur sent me last week, with three screenshots pasted into one WhatsApp message. I’ll call him Debasis. The first screenshot said ₹7 lakh. The second said ₹6.75 lakh. The third said ₹6.5 lakh. Under them he had typed one…
Jobs for non-CSE freshers in Odisha are not a myth, and I say that after hearing the opposite for years. A Civil engineering student from Berhampur sat in my office last month. I’ll call him Prasant. He said, “Sir, all my friends are going into IT. Odisha has nothing for my branch. Should I just…
AI data centre careers in Odisha for freshers is the topic my phone has been full of since September. The message is almost always the same. “Sir, ₹1 lakh crore is coming to Odisha. How many jobs is that for me?” Good question. Let me answer it with numbers, not excitement. Last week, a Mechanical…
TCS NQT 2027 registration is the question I get asked most in October, usually in the same words: “Sir, when does it open, and am I too late?” The honest answer is that it depends on which route you mean, and most students do not know there is more than one. I have watched final-year…
The SRE vs DevOps career for freshers question reached my WhatsApp at 9 PM last month, with three job posts pasted one below the other. A final-year student from Rourkela, whom I’ll call Subrat, had typed one line under them: “Sir, which one should I apply for? They all look the same.” He was right….
Odisha tech opportunities for freshers are about to change in a way I have not seen in 27 years of counselling. Odia engineers, are you ready? I hear one line often in my counselling room. “Sir, I will have to move to Bengaluru.” For two decades, that was mostly true. It is becoming less true…
Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in India started showing up in my messages about four months ago. A student from Rourkela sent me a LinkedIn post about someone earning ₹70 lakh a year with that exact title and asked, in all seriousness, “Sir, should I target this instead of software developer?” I did not have a…
This placement season guide October December is the one I wish every final-year student in Odisha had in hand on the first of October. Let me tell you why. A few years ago, a BTech student from Berhampur walked into my Bhubaneswar office in the first week of October. I’ll call him Rakesh. He had…
