| Sunday, March 30, 2008
Develop skills for better job prospects, students told
Career guidance seminar organised
In rapt attention: Participants at a career guidance seminar
in Chennai on Saturday
CHENNAI: Students aspiring to enter the information technology
(IT) industry must develop suitable skills for specific roles
and make themselves employable, said Ravi Nandyala, senior manager
(global workforce management), Cognizant, here on Saturday.
Addressing a career guidance seminar organised for students
of the Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology,
in association with The Hindu Business Line, Mr. Nandyala said
roles of technologists, test specialists, process specialists,
business analysts, solution architects and data analysts required
different sets of skills. A strong base in mathematics and statistics
or certification in software and ability to think logically
and analytically would be assets. Students must develop these
skills based on their individual interests.
He said every year, India produced about 3.55 lakh engineers.
Unfortunately, only 10-15 per cent of them were employable.
This was due to the gap in “college to corporate”
transformation. “Our academic programmes, our certifications
are far away from industry expectations, if not completely out
of sync,” he added.
In his presidential address, C.R. Muthukrishnan, advisor, Tata
Consultancy Services, said as far as the field of technical
education was concerned, job placements remained the single
top most indicator of how successful students and educational
institutions were.
As far as opportunities in using IT and other related developing
technology in different sectors were concerned, they would only
grow, he said. Domestic usage of IT and ITES was also growing
at an accelerated pace. S. Venkateswaran, manager (HR campus
relations), Keane International India Pvt Ltd.; S. S Kalyanaraman,
senior manager (HR), Softgen India Pvt Ltd.; Sree Sastha Institute
of Engineering and Technology chairman A.M.K. Jambulingam; vice-chairman
J. Karthikeyan; principal S.P. Subramanian and director G. Gopalakrishnan
participated in the programme.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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