India Graduates Millions, But Too Few Are Fit to Hire

As the price of talent in India continues to increase, the problem may be that these companies aren't willing to pay the new premium for the same talent they used to pay less for pre-offshoring boom in India.

Leading them to outsource their own resource needs to cheaper places

Re: India Graduates Millions, But Too Few Are Fit to Hire

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Post by bdhe » Tue, Apr 05, 2011, 5:35 PM UTC

An important, but tangential point to note is that unlike the US, college education in India does not allow for a student to independently chose his/her major. People join colleges already deciding (without taking a single course) what they plan to get a degree in.

This leads to two things: 1. Most people do not have a clue about their interests and passion until it is too late (or never!). 2. The only majors that people graduate with are those that seem to have a lot of jobs and "prestige in society", often due to peer and parental pressure more than their own volition. This explains why there are so many engineers and doctors.

Combining these two, it is not surprising that a lot of graduates are not passionate about their work but see it as a means to an end.

Re: India Graduates Millions, But Too Few Are Fit to Hire

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Post by petervandijck » Tue, Apr 05, 2011, 5:40 PM UTC

"For their next challenge, they had to type 25 words a minute" That's pretty slow, right?

Re: India Graduates Millions, But Too Few Are Fit to Hire

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Post by EternitiesEnd » Tue, Apr 05, 2011, 5:42 PM UTC

Something that is not mentioned is that the options in terms of higher education is mostly limited to engineering and medicine, at least these are the only socially acceptable degrees to a large extent. So virtually everyone ends up doing an engineering degree and it becomes a situation where there is quantity but no quality.

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Post by galadriel » Tue, Apr 05, 2011, 5:43 PM UTC

dman wrote: post #2

That is probably true globally.

Can teachers be bribed in US to pass students ? (Just curious)