NASSCOM HIGHLIGHTS MEASURES TO AVOID TALENT CRISIS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)

NASSCOM HIGHLIGHTS MEASURES TO AVOID TALENT CRISIS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)

IMPARTING OF SIMPLE TECHNICAL SKILLS STRESSED FOR FILLING THE GAP IN THE INDUSTRY

New Delhi July 20, 2007 There is growing concern in the Information Technology sector about the increasing skill gap being major cause for the present available talent pool being unsuitable for employment .

Industry experts feel that It has become imperative to enhance the Indian talent pool to maximize the industry’s potential and enable the sector to further catalyze the country’s economic growth rate.

To address this challenge, NASSCOM and the Indian IT-BPO sector have taken the lead in ensuring that requisite remedial actions are undertaken, well in time, to avoid any form of a talent crisis. NASSCOM has over the last few years created a workforce development platform and launched several initiatives, in partnership with the Government and academia that aim to bring positive changes to the Indian education system and its orientation towards building employable students.

The base remedial actions include developing simple technical skills,(including entry-level jobs in the BPO industry and vocational jobs like networking, hardware maintenance, etc. The middle stands for skills that are mainstream and account for the majority of the existing shortage in the industry.

Institutes like Aptech, NIIT, Jetking have now brached themselves up to train people as per the needs of the industry .

According to Mr Kamal Arora , Director, Jetking , Karol Bagh branch, the need for hardware engineers with soft skills is on the increase world wide. This includes jobs like networking and hardware maintenance. A person after one year training can get a job worth Rs ten thousand immediately

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The middle level skills area represents the skills that are most commonly required by the IT services segment. It is also the market that is expected to face the largest skill shortage and a number of NASSCOM initiatives have been focused at this level.

NASSCOM’s IT Workforce Development (ITWD) program was created keeping the issues and concerns of the industry at one end and challenges of the academia at the other end. As part of this initiative, NASSCOM has been nurturing the IT industry-academia interface through workshops and conferences, faculty sabbaticals, training programs and mentorship initiatives to ensure better synchronization between IT education and the industry requirements.

Contact Kamal Arora 9971206207