Overseas placement is also considered for deserving candidates. Also offered on successful completion of the course is a certificate by TIL and CA, as well as placement assistance. Besides this, a number of individuals have also taken up this business of writing books, conducting seminars and workshops, and some are doing exceptional business. A number of placement agencies are also gearing up for a mad rush, as not only programmers, but also data-entry operators would be needed in large numbers, at least for the testing stage in the Y2k solutions process. As if the 'missing century' wasn't big enough a problem, there are several issues related to the whole Y2k affair, that make it even worse.
Some problems are simply theoretical, while most others some are technical ones, involving expenses.
This makes it extremely difficult to fix the problem, as it needs either a hardware upgrade, or at least a new chip burn-in. The problem mainly occurs in some ROM-BIOS software, which do not hold the century, and just make do with storing either the last two digits of the year, or the number of years after 1981. So far, so good. The problem in the latter case is that software have been designed to wrap around at 1999. This would result in major mistakes in date calculations.