By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-27 22:42:29 | Updated at 2024-12-28 13:26:41
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Over 80% Indian engineers are unemployable, lack new-age technology skills: Report
The Times of India ^ | March 21, 2019 | India Today Web Desk
Posted on 12/27/2024 2:41:55 PM PST by chickenlips
A recent employability report has found that over 80 percent of engineers in India are unemployable as they lack the technological skills required by employers now.
Every year, thousands of engineering graduates pass out of college, but only a tiny handful of them are trained in the skills that employers need now. Over 80 percent of them are unemployable for any job in the knowledge economy, said a report by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds.
The employability report is based on a research conducted on engineering students from India, the US and China.
"We find that a low proportion of engineers take up projects beyond curriculum and do internships. Further, there is a lack of faculty talking about industry application of concepts in class or students getting exposure through industry talks," said Aspiring Minds Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Varun Aggarwal, according to PTI.
"These need to be remedied by aligning incentives of all stakeholder, building capacity and gamification," he added
Main highlights about engineering from the employability report.
1. The report stated that only 3.84 percent of engineers in the country have the technical, cognitive and linguistic skills required for software-related jobs in start-ups.
2. Only 3 percent of engineers have new-age technological skills in the areas which are booming now such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science and mobile development.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: engineers; h1b; india
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From 2019 but still relevent to the H-1B discussions that are happening.
But don't worry the firms bringing them over are bringing only the best. /s
1 posted on 12/27/2024 2:41:55 PM PST by chickenlips
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