With the IT industry gearing towards automation and Artificial Intelligence, there is an immediate need for the workforce to imbibe new digital technologies to retain their jobs.
IT experts are warning a severe job loss at the mid and senior level in the coming years and the only jobs that are secure are those that require skill and regular supervision.
Chief executive of Capgemini, India Srinivas Kandula believe that 60-65% of employees of the company are not trainable with the new emerging technologies. The domestic arm of the French IT major holds nearly one lakh engineers in the country. He also averred that 3.9 million IT employees come from low-grade engineering colleges which do not follow exhaustive grading pattern for students.
The remarks from Srinivas Kandula has come after Nasscom said that there is an immediate need to re-train 1.5 million workforces to newer digital technologies. Kandula also feels that IT industry has not invested much in upgrading the skill set of the employees.
The quality of the students in engineering colleges is so bad that many of them are not able to answer when asked about the subjects taught to them when they were in the final semester of their degrees, he said.
These critical remarks have come after a recent study found that 80% of the engineering graduates are unemployable in India.
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