Re: Re: Re: RE: [MTC Global] A million engineers in India struggling to get placed in an extremely challenging market

Dear MTCians,

Unfortunately the minimum qualification in the job market and in the Matrimonial requirement is B.E., Degree. No longer B.A. B.Sc and other humanity degrees have value. Hence,  the mushroom growth of Engineering colleges in India. It has become a fancy for parents to send their children to Engineering Schools and colleges rather to Commerce or accountancy subjects. M.A., M.Sc, once a glorified degrees now are of no avail. Pupils who opt for M.A., M.Sc are the ones who did not get good Engineering colleges to study B.E., Students who acquire master degrees after 2 full years of education are termed as over qualified for any administrative jobs and they don't get selected. They have to opt for teaching profession only. If Such Engineering opted drop outs and master degree holders take up teaching profession without a B.Ed.,  degree for secondary level or PU level students  imagine how much quality of knowledge and education they can impart to students.

They are forced to take up  teaching profession just for survival and to eke out their livelihood and not with a dedication to teach.

Top 10 or 20 Engineering colleges turn out quality graduates  and the rest continue to exist with average or just above average quality output. Neither the institutions which churn out engineering graduates in thousands nor the students who opt  for Engineering degrees, nor the parents who expect their children to become Engineering graduates to be blamed but the society in which we live force us to become scapegoats of high imagination,  building castle in the air. There is no contraceptive to control large turn over of  Engineering graduates. Every individual have to plan their career well and understand themselves of their skills and abilities and their liking first,  then venture into any activity and not by coercion or force from parents, peers or colleagues.

Know yourselves first before taking any steps must be the motto. Getting into Engineering curriculum immediately after Higher Secondary must not be automatic, it should be by volition and strong will to pursue engg. degree. Imagine the plight of students who opt for self financing colleges by paying capitation fee running in lakhs and finally remaining unemployed after graduation.

Obtaining engineering degree must be by design and not by default. As rightly stated by other MTCians, whatever your core subject in engineering, finally you land up in IT sector either as BPO / KPO / Back End/ or development engineer. The purpose of fighting tooth and nail to get admission in ECE / EEE/ Civil goes to docks at the end of the final year when they are selected by IT  sector.  I have a fine example in my own town  when my neighbour put his son in one of the best Higher Secondary schools in Tamilnadu to make him secure higher percentage and higher cut off  to facilitate admission in Anna University. That boy secured 98% in HSc and got admission in ECE group in engineering in the Anna University college in the first sitting itself  with a hope to become Electronics and Communications Engineer. But finally landed in a IT related company only in a campus selection. Like the saying "All the Roads Lead to Rome" All the Enggineering degree lead to IT sectors. If such is the case where do we get core engineers to take care of manufacturing/ Electrical/Electronics/Production/Instrumentation/ Civil  related jobs etc.,who to be blamed?

Choosing an ideal/ useful / right course with full volition and clear understanding alone will help the students to achieve their goals and not to satisfy others EGO.

Regards,

V.Nagarajan, B.A., LL.B., PGDBA, PGDCA.,

Corporate Trainer and NHRD-Hosur Chapter Advisor'

Motivational  Speaker in B Schools /Colleges,

Past President, National HRD Network, Hosur Chapter.

General Manager-HR (Retd) T T K Prestige Limited, Hosur,

Mobile No. 099949 19619

Mail Id: " vnagarajan99@gmail.com "

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 9:39 PM, drjaganmohanreddy <drjaganmohanreddy@gmail.com> wrote:

Goel saab is absolutely correct that real problem is not finding employment but their employability. Several surveys indicated that only 25% of either engineering and Management graduates are employable.  While nothing much could be done on their attitude (which determines their inquisitiveness to learn etc) institutions in general and teachers in particular should make the students practice the mantra of read, reflect and relate so that they will be in a position to give a better account of themselves. 

I was only Chipping for intensified industry institute interaction because if students are aware of nitty gritty of corporate jungle especially the nuances atleast to some extent they will be able to market themselves. 

The major problem, which I could decipher from Goel saab's anguish, is that  majority of our students suffer from either of two dreadful deceases (deadlier than HIV) namely

-I know everything

-I don't wish to know anything. 

Somehow we need to insulate (know it's pretty difficult) our students from being affected by either of these two. 

Let's continue with our holistic mission of educating, empowering and elevating of fraternity sothat  they do inturn do the same to their students. 

DrAJagan Mohan Reddy

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From: Virendra Goel <goel.virendra@gmail.com>
Date: 30/06/2013 20:07 (GMT+05:30)
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Subject: RE: Re: Re: RE: [MTC Global] A million engineers in India struggling to get placed in an extremely challenging market

Inquisitiveness and  willingness to work hard are two basic needs for any kind of employment with growth perspective and they are missing across the board. On top of that basic writing reading and articulating skills for an effective communication are missing in most of the two and three tier cities. I have not come across any young man who is unemployed with above attitudinal and skills aspect besides the domain knowledge.

Regards

Virendra Goel

 

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Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 9:54 AM
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: RE: [MTC Global] A million engineers in India struggling to get placed in an extremely challenging market

 

Improving the employability skills is one of the major challenges before all of us-be it the policy makers , academicians. There is no point in talking about demographic dividend when many of the youngsters can't be deployed to create, communicate and deliver value (the emphasis on deployability and no more employability).

Had we possessed a system of having an estimated requirements of human resources-skill wise-accordingly plans could be undertaken to produce accordingly. Since such an initiative (holistic ) on an all india level is no where to be seen the only alternative is to increase the industry institute interaction. When that happens students would be in a better position to rise up to the expectations of the industry. 

Institutes could think of granting 15 days sabbatical for the faculty to go to the industry and get first hand information on the nitty gritty of corporate jungle. But for this to happen industry too should come forward. 

DrAJagan Mohan Reddy

 

 

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