A I wouldn't turn up my nose on the multi-billion dollar BPO industry if I were you. India's outsourced industry is evolving from a low-cost, back-office destination into a preferred supplier of high-end engineering services that boasts of domains such as technology-centric business research and engineering design. If you are really passionate about design, this sector is the right place to be. Maruti Udyog, for instance, has been entrusted with designing and developing all Suzuki cars in Asia outside Japan. Not surprising since, it was Maruti's engineers who did all the re-designing for the Zen and played a very important part in designing Swift. India now boasts of 12 companies / plants that have bagged the highly prestigious Demming Prize that authenticates our prowess at manufacturing quality products.

And it's not just about design. Offshore vendors are looking for engineers who can bring value addition to services like validation, simulation, pre-production work and product life-cycle management.