IT in ap

•  Portraying the shortage of right talent for companies to hire, a latest study said just 18 per cent of the fresh technical graduates surveyed possessed right skills to be eligible for jobs in IT services companies.

• As per the study of over 40,000 technical graduates by assessment technology company Aspiring Minds, a majority of fresh engineering graduates require additional training to be eligible for any job in the IT/ITeS sector.

• The employability study was based on results of a computer-based test called AMCAT conducted for engineering and Masters in Computer Applications (MCA) students (in final year) across 12 states in the country.

• "Employability with regard to IT services companies is 17.84 per cent," the study found.

Employability refers to skills like English communication, quantitative skills, problem-solving skills and computer science and programming skills, which fresh graduates must possess to get employed by firms.

• Employability of these graduates with regard to IT product companies is as low as 4.22 per cent, the study said.

• Further, Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPOs) firms find only 9.47 per cent technical graduates employable.

• For BPOs and Technical Support jobs the employability is 38.23 per cent and 25.88 per cent, respectively.

• The employability figures are based on actual hiring benchmarks on AMCAT scores set by multiple companies in IT/ITeS related sectors.

• The report also revealed employability of MCA students is almost half of that of engineering students in case IT services companies and KPOs.

• However, MCA candidates have excellent potential for becoming employable at IT product companies, given their good computer programming skills, the study stated. (PTI)