‘Engineering students must learn new skills to get IT jobs’

HYDERABAD: Acknowledging the job cuts and gloomy job prospects in the IT sector in Hyderabad and the rest of the country for prospective engineering students, Jayesh Ranjan, state principal secretary (IT) said that engineering students must focus more on gaining skills beyond basic coding to become employable. He gave this advice while interacting with engineering students who had undergone skill training in programming languages and database management on Thursday. 

“There are dark storms ahead in IT sector for freshers seeking jobs. Just getting a job is not enough. Students need to learn new skills apart from writing codes,” said Jayesh Ranjan. Students must join developers community and focus on new and upcoming areas in IT sector such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, he said. 

The IT secretary also pointed out the need for updating existing courses. “There is a strong need for collaboration between private and public sectors,” he said. Close to 1,400 students have been trained so far as part of CSR initiative by Aricent and Nasscom. The training programme, ‘Arise by Aricent’, aims to train engineering students from colleges across the city in IT industry essentials. Some of the students who had undergone training have found jobs with MNCs in city, claimed the organisers.