Job scenario for engineering students
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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.
Job scenario for engineering students
- 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 3
- 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. 4
- 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. 5
- 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. 6
- 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. 7
- 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. 8
- 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. 9
- 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. 10
- 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? 11
- 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 12
- 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 13