This is something shocking for Indian outsourcing industry. As per a 2005 Nasscom-McKinsey report only ten to fifteen percent of general graduates and twenty five percent of the technical graduates are suitable for getting employed in IT and BPO sector. This fact could certainly act as a hurdle in the future of India’s BPO sector.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Head,Cognizant Technology has to say something about this:
The problem, is not so much with leading universities and colleges. In the last 10 years or so, several hundred new engineering colleges have sprung up. It’s the increasing number of students coming out of the neo and non-academic managed colleges that contribute to the ‘under-employability'’.
If we would like to see outsourcing growing in India we need to figure out the root cause behind this and try and solve it so that we could create the best people for this job.
