50% of India's graduates are unemployable.

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:08 pm

...It's the season for staggeringly high cut-offs on campus, but one that don't necessarily make the cut in the corporate world. A new survey of graduate students across the country, conducted by Aspiring Minds says that more than half of them are not fit to be hired.

India produces 50 lakh graduates every year. Experts say with poor English language skills, computer training and analytical ability, making the cut from the classroom to the boardroom is not easy.

Himanshu Aggarwal, Co-Founder and CEO, Aspiring Minds says, "Our education system continues to be put down by the rote learning concepts. These rote learning concepts are not training people for functional skills who are going to be deployed into the industry in a more readily fashion without any extensive training."

"I'm not in anyway ridiculing or undermining the importance of cognitive and technical ability. All I'm suggesting is a balanced approach where education is more holistic, more interdisciplinary and really new student centric or learner centric rather than teacher centric. We still produce are amongst the best in the world," says Nishchae Suri, Partner and Head of People and Change at KPMG.

by confuzzled dude Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:43 pm

Otherwise their business model will fall apart, isn't it?

"who are going to be deployed into the industry in a more readily fashion without any extensive training."

What heck does it even mean? Don't every employer set aside annual budget for employee training no matter how many years of industry experience one possesses.

Also, communication skills is sickeningly overused cliche, most of them misinterpret it for bull shitting, spend all day doing exactly that without accomplishing anything substantial. Like the good old story goes a donkey cannot perform a dog's job. In this case the other way around they bark all day long but can't carry shit on their shoulders/backs.

50% of India's graduates are unemployable.

50% of India's graduates are unemployable.

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