62% of engineering graduates need training to be employable: study

About 62 per cent of all engineering graduates require education or training to be eligible for any job in the information technology (IT) and IT enabled services (ITeS) sector, said a study by Aspiring Minds--an assessment technology provider.

IT product firm feel that only 4.22 per cent graduates are fit for employability. Similarly IT services companies said that just about 17.84 per cent are employable, said a study by Aspiring Minds.

This is not all the study noted that knowledge process outsourcing firms found only 9.47 per cent technical graduates employable. However, employability in the business process outsourcing (BPO) and Technical Support jobs was at 38.23 per cent and 25.88 per cent respectively.

Aspiring Minds conducted the employability study of technical graduates based on the results of a standardised computer-based test called AMCAT conducted for more than 40,000 engineering and MCA students (in final year) across the country. AMCAT was conducted in more than 12 states under proctored environment. Employability figures are based on actual hiring benchmarks on AMCAT scores set by multiple companies in IT/ITeS related sectors.

The report also revealed that the employability of MCA students is almost half of that of engineering students in case IT services companies and KPOs. However, for IT Product companies, the employability of students is not as skewed (4.2 per cent as compared to 5.4 per cent). With regard to skills, MCA students are better than engineering students (in computer/ electronic/ IT related branches) in Computer Programming by 12 percentile points, whereas engineers perform better in English, Logical and Quantitative Aptitude by 10 to 20 percentile points.