The document discusses the lack of employability skills in Indian engineering graduates and the gap between their qualifications and the skills required by employers. It notes that over 70% of engineering graduates are unemployable due to lacking soft skills like integrity, reliability, and teamwork that employers prioritize. While graduates have technical skills, they lack skills in communication, entrepreneurship, and using modern tools. As a result, many qualified graduates struggle to find jobs related to their field or enroll in further training to improve their employability. The mismatch between graduate skills and market demands challenges companies to recruit and trains graduates to address the gap.

2. Job Career
Job is an activity through which a person's progress or general
an individual can earn money. It course of action through life or
is a regular activity in exchange through a phase of life, as in
of payment. some profession or undertaking
a post of employment; full-time One’s life work
or part-time position. Usually requires special training
Education or Special training Long term
may or may not be required. Security
Short term Self confidence
Predictability
A path to look forward
Growth - A future

3. “According to the survey, carried out by a number of agencies,
more than 70 percent of our engineering graduates are not
employable.”.
“The graduates lack other skills beside the academic or technical
skills. The top three most important general skills identified
were integrity, reliability and teamwork, while the top three
most important specific skills are entrepreneurship,
communication in English and use of modern tools and
technologies.”
writes Dr. G.R. Sinha, Professor and Head (IT), Shri Shankaracharya
College of Engineering and Technology, Bhilai, India, in Need to Focus
on Developing Employability Skills in our Engineering Graduates
on indiaeducationreview.com
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4. Around 6 lakh engineers come out of colleges in India each
year.
Corporations report that it’s challenging, sometimes
impossible, to recruit qualified applicants for an expanding
workforce.
Engineering colleges in India now have seats for 1.5 million
students according to the National Association of Software and
Services Companies (NASSCOM), a trade group.
But 75% of technical graduates and more than 85% of
general graduates are unemployable by India's high-growth
global industries, including information technology and call
centers, according to results from assessment tests
administered by the group.
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5. A senior vice president in human resources at Wipro
Technologies says it has struggled to find skilled workers.
Trying to bridge the gap between job requirements and the
skills of graduates, Tata has extended its internal training
program (72 days of training for fresh graduates).
Wipro runs an even longer, 90-day training program.
Both companies sent teams of employees to India's
approximately 3,000 engineering colleges to assess the
quality of each before they decided where to focus their campus
recruiting efforts. Tata says 300 of the schools made the cut; for
Wipro, only 100 did.
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6. Only a few students of Engineering Courses are able to get a job
in the first year after completing the course.
Most of these students get jobs that are unrelated to their
knowledge and qualifications.
Those who are not able to find jobs start enrolling in different
job oriented courses or for higher education.
Some students enroll into Personality Development Courses
to improve their confidence, interviewing skills and spoken
English after they fail to get jobs.
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7. Call-center company 24/7 Customer Pvt. Ltd. wants to hire
3,000 people in 2011 in India. But it is finding it difficult to do
so. Its increasing difficulty finding competent employees in India
has forced the company to expand its search to other countries.
Most of its 8,000 employees are now based outside of India.
Demand for skilled labor continues to grow. Tata Consultancy
Services, part of the Tata Group, expects to hire 65,000 people
in 2011.
Likewise, many Technology companies have set high goals
for recruitment but are finding it difficult to get good candidates.
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8. Mere technical knowledge does not take people too far.
The technical knowledge gives way to managerial and
customer handling skills requirements after a few years.
If the person is not prepared for those functions, the company
has an easy choice to bring someone better.
It is very easy to get people who work for wages at par with that
of experienced technical personnel and have managerial and
customer handling skills as well.
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9. Tighter budgets for expenses and greater targets for sales.
Lack of resources (capital, equipments, etc.) in the country.
Level of Research & Development (R&D) happening in the
country is very low.
Owing to such a scenario in India, the demand for purely
technical people is very low.
And very common things to see in today’s India are like the
following:
Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Electronics engineering student working
in IT companies as developers, programmers, product managers,
sales executives
BCA, MCA, BE (Computers), BE (IT) students working in call centers
The scene is simple: There are very few core jobs available.
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10. For a past few years now, countries in Europe and America have
woken up to the fact that they are losing their jobs to Asians,
particularly Indians and Chinese.
So, the days are gone when we had enough job offers from nations
in Europe and Americas.
The only thing happening now is that companies are sending
their resources to the project site to European and American
Counties for short durations.
Although there are still offers coming our way but they are for
countries in Middle East and Africa.
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11. “Multi-tasker” - One who is able to do many things like
Technical Work
Client Interaction
Product Demos
Team Handling
Marketing
Which one will you buy?
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12. Good technical knowledge
Design capabilities
Domain Knowledge after a few years
Some hands-on experience
Right attitude
Command over English (International Language)
Good communication skills
Interpersonal skills
Ability to identify focus areas and analyze client requirements
Presentation skills
Leadership skills
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13. General
Manager /
Project Manager / Head R & D /
CEO
Program Manger
(Domain
Team Lead / Project Knowledge
Lead / Business Essential)
Analyst / Pre/post
sales Analyst
(Domain Knowledge Till the end
of career
Required)
Engineer /
Sr. Engineer
10 years
6 years
Career Start
3 years
Course Duration Part Technical
Technical Managerial Leadership
Part Managerial
JOB ROLES
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