This story is from April 10, 2007

Finishing schools to hone IT skills

R Raghavendra / TNN / Apr 10, 2007, 01:41 IST

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The Karnataka government is trying to convert young graduates into professionals, ready to be employed by the IT industry.

BANGALORE: The Karnataka government is trying to convert young graduates into professionals, ready to be employed by the IT industry. Having recognised the emerging shortage of people with the necessary softskills and attitude, the state government, in partnership with private sector, will roll out finishing schools across t he state. This one-year course literally ends in a job placement.
Among the private parties who will be offering training includes the $4-billion Jindal Group, which is setting up a training facility in Hubli and Raman International Institute of ITin Mysore.Management institute XIME may also offer the course at its Electronics City campus.
Mysore alone is expected to place 5,000 students by 2007, while the Hubli and Bangalore centres are likely to place another 5,000 students each by that time. In fact, RIIIT wants to scale it up to 30,000 students per year by 2009.
Called PG Diploma in Software Programming, this course has already obtained the affiliation of the University of Mysore. "This is going to be a proper PG course. We have even tied up with Syndicate Bank which is ready to provide loans. The students who finish this course would ideally suit the ITeS sector,” said M N Vidyashankar, secretary IT and BT, Karnataka.

The one-year course would comprise of four components — communication skills, analytical and problem solving, domain expertise and personal grooming. Admission will be through a common entrance test, which is being designed by Bangalore-based MeriTrac, an employee assessment firm.
IT companies themselves are doing everything possible to identify talent at a much younger age in order to make them employable by the time they graduate. Wipro Technologies recently conducted a contest called CodeZap Guru in order to identify the best programmers in the student community. Of the 8,000 participants, nearly 4,000 students will receive job offers, said a company spokesperson.

Wipro's Campus2Career.wipro.com website was equipped with learning material that contest participants used to hone their programming skills. Over 500 students have been short-listed to contribute to projects at Wipro's Magnum Opus programme.
Says Wipro's CTO of telecom and product engineering solutions Rajesh Mishra, "Our goal is to help fresh graduates have sound knowledge of one operating system and one programming language.”

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