Entry Level IT Professionals Key Requisites

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Entry Level IT ProfessionalsKey Requisites
Steps to Imbibe them
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Industry Overview

• Possible Solutions?
• Real-time alignment with Industry need
• Collaborate to re-engineer the current
  educational system
• Dynamic syllabus mapping
• Equal emphasis on Hard and Soft skills
• Accredited Selection Process for joining the
  Industry
• Common Admission Test

• Challenges
• Demand-supply gap widening
• Opportunity Threat
• Technologies racing ahead of Institutes ability
  to deliver talent
• Ability to deliver on a Global environment from
  day 1.
• Globally deployable talent a pre-requisite

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Organization Perspective

• Possible Solutions?
• Improving Entry Level Offer ratio
• Enhancing geographic penetration
• Enhancing IT education for non IT streams to
  ensure compatibility

• Corporate Challenges
• Leveraging Entry to Lateral ratio
• Campus focus is tactical but not strategic in
  nature
• Lack of Diversity
• Gender
• Cultural

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Campus Perspective

• Challenges On-Campus
• Mix theory with Practice
• Balancing Hard and Soft Skills
• Tightened admission process for professional
  streams
• Emphasis on strong Values
• Integrity
• Character Building

• Possible Solutions?
• Extensive regional Faculty Development
  Initiatives
• Industry to off-load test projects / case studies
  to campuses
• Mandate industry project guidance cell in
  corporates
• Special focus on subject / cases enhancing value
  systems and time management

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Student Perspective

• Student Challenges
• Ability to cope with peer pressure
• Post-Graduation (MBA)
• Campus Abroad
• Job
• Ability to cope with change
• Syllabus
• Technology
• Time Management
• Studies Extra-Curricular activities
• College Coaching Classes

• Student Imperatives
• Basic Concepts
• Application
• Ability to grasp
• New technologies
• Communication Skills
• Read, Write, Speak, Present
• Achievement Orientation
• Global Perspective
• Good Values
• Integrity

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• Campulse Initiatives
• Campulse Mentors
• Faculty Development
• News Letter
• e-learning
• Annual Placement Officers Meet

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A People Vision
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