Taheefah Qazi - Success Story | CyberShikshaa

Taheefah Qazi

For Taheefah, a career as a software developer wasn't her calling. After exploring a lot of different fields, she finally zeroed down on Cyber Security! Here's her story.

Making it big amid sparse opportunities

I completed my bachelor's in engineering from University of Kashmir in 2019. A lot of people who study computer science foresee their career as software developers. I was also one of them until I realized that I cannot spend all my life debugging errors from programming codes. In most of my attempts, a syntax error would flash on the screen, and I had to go through the process all over again. Even If the code was alright, something else used to go wrong.

I also did a few projects in college on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Machine Learning to expose myself to subjects other than coding, but nothing worked out for me.

One fine day, the head of our department mentioned about CyberShikshaa program to us. She had all good things to say about it. I was fully convinced to go for the course when she said that the field of cyber security could be the next big thing in tech in India. Programming was not my cup of tea, and I was anyway looking up for more options to explore.

After I enrolled for the course, our classroom training began in National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT), Srinagar. The teaching methodology that our trainer used piqued my interest in the subject immediately. There was no need for us to mug up anything as everything was practice oriented. We had lab projects almost every other day. We also got the opportunity to visit some well-known data centers and configure routers, switches, and firewalls there. In no time six months passed, and I was filled with excitement to begin my career in Cyber Security.

The best part of it all was that I didn't have to hustle to get a job. I cracked the HCL interview for the position of Cyber Security Analyst while I was doing the course. It was a very smooth process. DSCI assisted us in mock interviews in the training phase and also helped us a lot during placement drives.

There are not many MNCs in Srinagar and engineering graduates like me have very slim chances to land up in a job role that is suitable for us. It was a big relief to see things falling into place so effortlessly for me!

It's been two years now that I am working with HCL, and each project that I have worked on in this short stint has been extremely rewarding for me CyberShikshaa happened to me at the right time, and I cannot thank DSCI and Microsoft enough for helping me find my field of interest.

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