Less than 8% of Indian engineers are employable: Report
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While the government’s ambitious Make in India initiative might aspire to create manufacturing capacity in India and generate 100 million jobs by 2022, a report released today suggests India might not be ready for that yet.
Less than 8% of Indian engineers are employable in core engineering roles reveals Aspiring Minds’ latest National Employability Report. The analysis is based on a sample of 150,000 engineers across the country. It showed there is a huge gap in skills of engineers, as needed, to work in the large industry.
“In our analysis, we find, students do not have these basic concepts right. Thirdly, there is a huge need of a curriculum revamp and to bring in new teaching methods and technology.” said Varun Aggarwal, CTO Aspiring Minds.
“The science of manufacturing has moved way ahead but we continue to teach outdated concepts to students. For India to become the world’s manufacturing hub, we need to lead from the front in our understanding of cutting edge methods, knowledge-driven management and implementation capability.” he added.
Employability for roles like Mechanical Design Engineer and Civil Engineer stand at a meagre 5.55% and 6.48% respectively with the lowest employability percentage recorded for the Chemical Design Engineer role at 1.64%.
Employability in the domain specific roles is the highest for Electronics engineers at 7.07%. This percentage is considerably lower when compared to employability in IT roles likeSoftware Engineer – IT services and Associate ITeS Operations (Hardware Networking) which stands at 17.91% and 37.06% respectively.
These roles require good analytical skills, ability to apply their skills to real world problems and not as much stress on English communication skills as compared to the IT services roles. In spite of this, a very small percentage of engineers are adept to join the industry.
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Less than 8% of Indian engineers are employable in core engineering roles reveals Aspiring Minds’ latest National Employability Report. The analysis is based on a sample of 150,000 engineers across the country. It showed there is a huge gap in skills of engineers, as needed, to work in the large industry.
“In our analysis, we find, students do not have these basic concepts right. Thirdly, there is a huge need of a curriculum revamp and to bring in new teaching methods and technology.” said Varun Aggarwal, CTO Aspiring Minds.
“The science of manufacturing has moved way ahead but we continue to teach outdated concepts to students. For India to become the world’s manufacturing hub, we need to lead from the front in our understanding of cutting edge methods, knowledge-driven management and implementation capability.” he added.
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Employability in the domain specific roles is the highest for Electronics engineers at 7.07%. This percentage is considerably lower when compared to employability in IT roles like
These roles require good analytical skills, ability to apply their skills to real world problems and not as much stress on English communication skills as compared to the IT services roles. In spite of this, a very small percentage of engineers are adept to join the industry.
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