Identification and Implementation of Engineering Graduates Employability Skills in Pune IT Industry

Abstract

In India, all-India entrance test for admission to prestigious engineering colleges across India for which about 1.4 million students attempt. This entrance test is for 19 IIT s, 31 NIT s and 18 IIT s. Most of the students who wants to make their career in Engineering stream dreams for the admission to these institutes. In India Engineering graduation program is of 4 years and at the end of the graduation, passed out students are expected to be ready with Industry expected skills to get into various industries of their choice. Due to stringent competition, students are getting anxious and fear of not getting a job while expectations from companies are growing in complexity. In the growing competition, every individual possesses different skill set, it is often seen that some of the skills get matched and most of them fail in achieving that. Engineering, a professional and career-oriented program, strives in getting students to the capacity while most of them gets job offer through campus recruitment process. Communication skill has been identified as core skill for any engineering graduate to get the campus offer, most of the engineering colleges have included specific course to improve Communication of students which can help them during recruitment process. Moreover, it was identified that the syllabus is most concentrated for engineering students and even for developing skills. During the engineering program, on many occasions, students are not aware of the skills required for getting employment. Therefore, current research is conducted to analyze the importance of the employability skills and the need to make students acquainted at early stage of engineering. The study reveals the gap in academic focus areas on developing student s skills and the industry expectations. newline