The future IT job market is expected to be tough for fresh engineering graduates who are aiming to get into top notch IT firms.
Though 1 million IT jobs are at risk due to automation, engineering graduates who are aiming to find their place in different IT companies will need to re-skill themselves in order to deal with new innovations, which will still need human intervention to succeed.
Many autonomous engineering colleges are playing an active role in skilling their students. This was echoed during a panel discussion on the sidelines of ARISE-Aricent Skills for Employability Program, jointly conducted by Aricent Technologies (Holdings) Limited and the NASSCOM foundation.
It is a CSR initiative to create greater employability by skilling around 3400 engineering graduates studying in engineering colleges across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and the Delhi-NCR regions.
The NASSCOM foundation and Aricent Technologies had earlier run a pilot project of the same program, wherein they trained more than 2700 engineering students on employability-driven skills. They claim that most of the students had benefited from the pilot program and are now employed in many top MNCs such as Amazon, Dell, Tech Mahindra and Wipro.
Besides adding technical skills such as SDLC methodologies, programming languages like JAVA and database management languages like SQL, API creation, project design and software testing, the students will be trained in oral and written communication, business etiquette, problem solving, time management, customer orientation etc. In order to give the students further insights into the corporate world, current employees in different companies will work with these students as mentors.
“The program is tailor made for engineers who aspire to join the IT-BPM industry and our target is to train around 3400 engineers. Earlier, we had a very successful pilot of the same program,” said Shrikant Sinha, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation during the launch of the program in Bengaluru.
Interestingly, the students taking the program will also be assessed on the NDSC-SSC NASSCOM qualification packs and certified for the relevant job roles, enhancing their chances of employment.
