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| Monday, May 26, 2008
“Many won’t get through campus interviews”
Just 35% of engineering graduates get placement, as they are
unemployable, says expert
Chennai: While the number of seats in engineering colleges has
increased to more than 1.3 lakh, a significant number of the
students will not be placed through campus recruitment, Pandia
Rajan, managing director, Ma Foi Management Consultants, said
on Sunday.
The increase comes despite the fact that 14 per cent of the
nearly 1.1 lakh seats available were left unfilled last year.
Speaking at a meeting on ‘The state of engineering education
in Tamil Nadu and job prospects for fresh engineers’ organised
by Nandini Voice of the Deprived, an NGO, he said the absence
of transparency in engineering education was affecting the prospects
of students. There were no proper guidelines for colleges to
release records of their academic performance. This, he reckoned,
accounted for many ill-advised choices during the counselling
for engineering seats.
A major cause for concern for engineering aspirants was that
a number of fresh graduates were largely ‘unemployable.’
The India Labour Report 2007, a survey conducted by a staffing
company TeamLease, found that nearly “57 per cent of India’s
youth suffer from some degree of unemployability.”
An IT company source confirms this fact about engineering graduates.
“Less than 40-50 per cent of the people I interview are
employable. This is true even for professionals with a year
or two of experience,” he says. Similar numbers would
hold across most IT companies.
In this context, campus interviews are important as they let
students interact with recruiters in comfortable surroundings.
But Mr. Pandia Rajan says hardly 35 per cent of all engineering
graduates get placed through campus interviews. The primary
reason is the lack of good communication skills, people from
the industry feel.
Education opportunities without providing sufficient employment
opportunities are doubly dangerous, Mr. Pandia Rajan says. L.
S. Ganesh, Head of the Department of Management Studies at IIT
Madras, concurs. He says character-building is becoming a neglected
aspect of education with rampant corruption. Students tend to
look at the world from a narrow window of perception centred
on themselves and the current moment. This leads to distortions
in the environment which come back to hurt society as a whole.
Despite their exalted position in society, many teachers are
becoming insensitive to their students.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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