Employability Today Is Equal To Learnability

According to Shweta Mohanty, Head, Human Resources, SAP Labs India, with the rise of immersive technologies such as the Metaverse, enterprises are also looking for professionals skilled in areas like Extended Reality (XR), Virtual Reality (VR), as well as 3D Modelling and Design, etc.

- Aanchal Ghatak

With a rapidly changing tech scenario and a continuous upgradation of skills, how is the industry able to cope with the issue of employability of new engineering graduates?

According to All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), out of the eight-lakh graduate engineers from technical institutions in the country, more than 60 per cent remain unemployed.

There is huge skill gap between the skill level expectation and the skill sets that the students come equipped with. There is a need to keep pace with the engineering curriculum to reflect the evolving technological needs of the industry.

Conventional rules and regulations hardly allowed students to think beyond classroom learning. Lack of industry exposure and limited opportunities to participate in live projects and exchange programmes further create employment blocks for fresh engineers.

At SAP, our industry-academia programs like iXP looks at academic partnership that focuses on giving students and their teams a meaningful and memorable experience. iXp is built on a 70:20:10 model -70% on-the-job, project-based learning, 20% formal learning and development, 10% social learning. Our mission is simple to build the next generation of SAP.

Another flagship program, Code Unnati, focuses on enabling youth with coding skills through an innovative and collaborative platform to foster digital literacy amongst adolescents and citizens and develop IT skills and competencies amongst youth to prepare them for meaningful employment opportunities, thus contributing to social and economic development in India and to share "Digital India" and "Skill India" vision of Government of India.

While industries are focusing on hiring in new technology areas like Al, loT, and space technology, what are the other key areas for hiring?