The Freshman Dilemma !!

I was contacted by Tapas, one of my junior in hostel. He enquired me about the options he should opt for a better future. I should admit I do not have that great of an expertise so as to change lives, but would admit that I do have the confidence that changed the future of mine.
The biggest dillemma perturbed in the brains of many students, especcially from professional colleges is to land with a great job at the end of their college.
Shelling out huge amounts of money for a professional is worth the cause if at the end of the course an individual lands with a fabulous job. True enough, thats the reason we all opted for a professional degree and not just any pass course or honours degree.
The golden question is : Is getting admitted to a professional college in a professional course enough to live up to your Dollar Dreams. The dark answer is NO Certainly NOT !!!
Just imagine the current scenario : West Bengal has more than 90 colleges imparting BCA to above 4500 students every year. So every year aroung 4000 odd students pass out having the same degree of BCA. Looking into the IT scenario in bengal, one must realise that more than 1000 individuals can't be accomodated in the IT industry. Harshly enough very few IT companies across India rely or better say, trust Bengal for human resources. I had a chance to experience a couple of them namely IBM and Accenture, but given the current slack in the IT market, one can only guess the intake in the coming years.
The matter of concern is what exactly makes one fit the bill for cracking any or all of the job interviews. The answer gets difficult as each year passes.
A student who would easily have fetched a top notch job a couple of years ago today undoubtedly have to get rugged before he/she lands with a job. The reason being, even a few years back, the passout percentage was more than sufficient, but today the organisations are more demanding. They look for knowledge, skills and attitude. "Attitude" is one word that haunted me throughout the 3 years of college. Generally I was known as a guy with a bad and unprofessional attitude. It took me three years to silence my critics. With 4 job offers , I thought I had my revenge. I proved that this is the attitude to be. Sheer confidence. Those who are reading it must not go by the way I have talked of. The reason being - I never followed anybody. I just did what I wanted to, It sure was an uphill task but the dawn was beautiful.