Preeth Cavery, CEO, Symbio Consults, spoke with passion at the ASQ Bangalore event at Ramaiah Institute of Management, on 8 October 2011.

1. Enhancing Employability - Academia to Industry Integration

4. India and Emerging trend 9.0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 8.2 8.0 6.7 5.5 5.5 4.4 3.5 1950-70 1980 1992-97 1997-2002 2002-03 2003-04 2006-07 2009 2010 Sustained acceleration is needed to provide opportunities for India’s growing population and its even faster-growing workforce.

6. India and Emerging trend Few High Growth Sectors and their Manpower Requirement * Doctors and nurses estimates are not considered in this dataset. ** Estimated only for Organized Retail Source: Technopak Analysis According to the National Skill Development Mission, the high growth sectors are automobile and auto components, transportation and logistics, warehousing and packaging, travel and tourism, media and entertainment, healthcare services and retail.

8. Excellent public relations and inter personal skills, pleasing personality, smartness, good academic records

9. Creativity, exceptional conceptual, analytical, extremely good and active contacts within the industry

10. Good track records of success, go-getter, dynamic in nature

13. Meeting with the soft skill criteria of the industry

16. Possess high professional standards

17. Current academic output is technically competent

21. Due to lack of the right skills , Businesses invest six to twelve months to train the resource.

24. “set your own targets, achieve your own goals”

25. Create opportunities for yourself

26. The present day companies are willing to give you the freedom to work creatively.

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28. Hard Facts India's economic expansion was supposed to create opportunities for millions to rise out of poverty, get an education and land good jobs. But as India liberalized its economy starting in 1991 after decades of socialism, it failed to reform its heavily regulated education system. Globalization and market forces are creating these opportunities across countries on a scale never seen before. Unfortunately, there is also a widening skills gap. How can a country with a billion people be facing such a severe talent crunch? NASSCOM predicts that India's IT sector will face a shortfall of half a million professionals , while a recent IDC report suggests India will experience a shortfall of 118,000 skilled IT networking professionals.

31. Students want to know that training programs will provide a job or career possibilities

32. So where is the GAP?... There is a pronounced ‘skill gap’ both in terms of quality and quantity; and the current system are not geared to meet the industry requirements. Employability The key emphasis here is on On one hand there is high growth with a strong demand for labor and on the other hand there is a large pool of labour, majority of it unemployable There is a need for greater interaction between industry, government and academia, to develop curriculum that matches the industry needs. Enhancing Employability Industry Academia Better Integration 15

34. Problem solving skills that contribute to productive outcomes

35. Self-management skills that contribute to employee satisfaction and growth

36. Planning and organizing skills that contribute to long-term and short-term strategic planning

37. Technology skills that contribute to effective execution of tasks

40. modifying courses to match industry’s needs

41. using guest lecturers from business

43. Skill Gaps Observed in some Sectors..

45. Partnerships with government, non-government industry organizations and educational institutions

46. In-house training facilities

47. Create own training and development company

48. Corporate and Government Partnership

49. Corporate and Academic Institution tie-up

50. India’s largest private-sector bank, has joined hands with Manipal University to create the learning academy.

53. Identification of skill gaps specific to each industry.