Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 7 : The British Council, UK's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities, today launched the India Employability Survey 2014.
This report probes the quality of talent pools expected by Indian industry in the next 3-5 years and in that context, assesses current employability of workforces emerging from foreign, and specifically, UK universities. The British Council commissioned business research firm IMA India to conduct the survey. The research surveyed 200 foreign and Indian companies on ascertaining the attractiveness of Indian and foreign university graduates for employers on various parameters such as skill-set, availability and quality of talent pool and other parameters. The research captures the hiring trends, defining factors for recruitment of foreign-university graduates, preferred source countries, qualifications and disciplines of study.
The highlights of the survey included 51% of companies hire only from the top-20 Indian institutions, and less than a quarter of these firms hire only from the top-10 in any discipline, a very-substantial proportion, 41% of all companies have hired at least one foreign-university graduate in the last two years, far more graduates from foreign universities (39%) are deemed better prepared for the job, than those from Indian universities and require lesser extensive training (14%), sector-wise, consumer goods (60%), services (52.2%) and infrastructure, telecom and energy (50%) firms are the most likely to have hired at least one candidate with a foreign degree, industrial (34.5%) and IT (35.7%) companies are the least likely to have done so, though their overall percentages are still quite high among other important highlights. |
