Our colleges give academic education, but not much of job skills, especially so in the smaller towns and cities of our country. Transiting from college to the corporate world can be a mighty challenge, even for the most brilliant students. Landing the right job that satisfies both the purse and mind can be tricky too. It is in this context that the website askmedear.com comes across as a useful portal for college students, guiding them in making the right entry into the corporate world.

www.askmedear.com has been started to function as a career portal. It also serves as a virtual equivalent of a career counsellor, especially for IT students. The site has been designed to cater to students, jobseekers, teachers and placement officers. The site informs and educates students about the skills he requires to get a dream job, which is not taught in the college curriculum. There is also a resume posting section. Corporate entities will find this section useful to source out potential employees for their firms.

Students can access a range of helpful articles, job offers, information about new technologies coming up, expert ideas and useful resources in the information technology industry and get career guidance on this website. They can also put forward their questions on information technology, which will answered by the site’s network of experts. In the question and answer section, students can post technical questions for which the answers are provided by the technical team managing the website. The answers will be posted every weekend.

The site is maintained by Shalom Infotech. The site is easily navigable and the left navigator is exhaustive and easily leads to links students commonly look for. The USP of www.askmedear.com is that students do not have to recourse to search engines.

Resume tips, top 10 interview questions, interview tips, group discussion tips, latest questions of J2EE and .net exams, have also been posted on this site. Students will also find the software downloads and online tutorials to learn software programming and multimedia tools useful. There is also a section wherein IT professionals share their expertise in the field and provide ideas and suggestions for securing a suitable job. There is a forum section which facilitates group discussions on current issues. The site also lists websites which would be useful for IT students. Though students can register on the site, the site does not demand registration for accessing information on the portal.