Fwd: An Initiative: To Bridge The Gap Between Academics & Industry

[Rohit Rastogi]

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From: Director Academics <dir...@abes.ac.in>
Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:02 PM
Subject: Fwd: An Initiative: To Bridge The Gap Between Academics & Industry
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Dear Colleagues,

These are some of the feed backs from HR heads of some organisations. Many of the times, I wonder, we ask our college going children or siblings,

1.  'Naukri lagi?' 
   
2.  How did you do today in your interview?
   
3.  What was your preparation?
   
4. Did you check the website before going for placement drive?
   
5. Did you do the sample question bank?
6. How many candidates were there?
7. On which question did you stumble?
   
8. Was it technical round?'
9. Was it GD?
10. Was it Interview?
11. Any other task?
12. What was their expectation?

But do we bother to ask this to our students (at least those students for whom we have been appointed as 'Mentor')?

Have any of us bothered to ask CCPD / SEEP faculty how fairly our students are doing? Are they doing well on technical or soft skill frontier? even on a friendly note? What was the response of HR personnel who visited our college after the placement drive? Do we mark our calendars, on - which company is visiting the college for my students?

I give you an account of some of the feedbacks of HR heads:

Puneet Kumar Pandey, Senior Director, Talent Management Group, HCL Technologies says: Engineers have to interact with customers. I have come across candidates who cannot draft a straight mail in English that he to be sent to their customers.

Kapil Bhatia, Head, HR Department, Vinsol says: I have come across engineering candidates who cannot even type.

Prashant Bhatnagar, Director, Hiring, Sapient Consulting says: Colleges should start imparting education which is relevant to the practical work environment.

Diana Farrell, Director & Co-founder, McKinsey Center says: Employers are struggling to fill entry-level vacancies, despite the fact that there are 75 million unemployed young people worldwide. The education to employment system was not working properly and the mismatch between education providers and industry requirements was rendering young people unemployable.

Nowadays education has become a multi-billion industry. Colleges are focused on awarding degrees and making money. Too many private colleges, mostly professional degree colleges, have come up in the last few years. The physical infrastructure is there but quality of teaching is not there.

It is not just the technical and theoretical knowledge that the engineering graduates lack. Companies, which place more emphasis on soft skills, are also shocked at the quality of engineers.

The National Employability Report on Engineering Graduates released by Aspiring Minds in 2013 shows that out of the 500000 engineers who graduate from various engineering colleges across the country every year, only 17 percent are fit for the IT services sector. The report was based on a sample of more than 55,000 engineering students from 250 colleges chosen from the length and breadth of the country.

In a recent report of Nasscom, 75 percent engineering students in India are unemployable; education experts said that the Indian higher education system is not giving skill building and practical training equal importance as academics to give them an edge. And the report said that one of the major reasons why engineers, even from reputed institutes, are not easily employed because they lack hands-on skill. 

India's higher education system contributes about 5 lakhs engineers and 30 lakhs university graduates every year. MNC finds only 25% of Indian engineers and management graduates employable (Source: Survey by McKinsey Global). 

We need to understand, that, Academics and placements have to go hand in hand. If we place ourselves in opposite part of arena, we will keep fighting with each other. If we come together and join hands, we can pull the students together out of his/ her self defined boundaries...

--

Dr Neeta Awasthy,

Director, Academics,

ABESEC (032),Ghaziabad

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