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94% of IT graduates not fit for hiring: Tech Mahindra CEO
by Seva Lamberdar Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:18 am
NEW DELHI: Is hiring in the IT sector under any kind of stress? Will you hire more?
Let me give you an example from a city like Delhi. A student scoring 60% marks cannot pursue BA-English today, but can definitely go in for engineering. My point is simple — are we not creating people for unemployment? ... The Indian IT industry wants skills. For example, Nasscom says 6 million people are required in cybersecurity by 2022. But we have a skills shortage. The point is if I am looking for a robotics person and instead I get a mainframe person, then it creates a skill gap. This comes as a big challenge.
How serious is the skill-gap situation?
If you come to Tech Mahindra, I have created a five-acre tech & learning centre. Other top companies have also created similar facilities to skill employees. For learnability, skill development and being ready for the market, the onus is now shifting onto the industry… Despite all this, the top 10 IT companies take only 6% of the engineering graduates. What happens to the remaining 94%? .............
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/94-of-it-grads-not-fit-for-hiring-techm-ceo/articleshow/64442037.cms
Let me give you an example from a city like Delhi. A student scoring 60% marks cannot pursue BA-English today, but can definitely go in for engineering. My point is simple — are we not creating people for unemployment? ... The Indian IT industry wants skills. For example, Nasscom says 6 million people are required in cybersecurity by 2022. But we have a skills shortage. The point is if I am looking for a robotics person and instead I get a mainframe person, then it creates a skill gap. This comes as a big challenge.
How serious is the skill-gap situation?
If you come to Tech Mahindra, I have created a five-acre tech & learning centre. Other top companies have also created similar facilities to skill employees. For learnability, skill development and being ready for the market, the onus is now shifting onto the industry… Despite all this, the top 10 IT companies take only 6% of the engineering graduates. What happens to the remaining 94%? .............
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/94-of-it-grads-not-fit-for-hiring-techm-ceo/articleshow/64442037.cms
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