The newest State in the country, Telangana, finds itself in the 9th position on the jobs available and interestingly much behind than the States perceived to be not as growth oriented as Telangana.
A report of the Aspiring Minds, a job skills credentialling company, revealed that Telangana has 3.47% of jobs available in India while Maharashtra is at the top with 19.72% followed by the National Capital Region (NCR) with 16.99%.
The two southern States of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu take the next two spots with 16.03% and 9.80% respectively. Gujarat (5.63%), West Bengal (4.47%), Madhya Pradesh (4.11%) and Uttar Pradesh (3.7%) are placed above Telangana. In fact, the top four states put together offer close to 65% of the open positions across India.
Automated survey
Job positions and skill demand were collected through an automated survey of various job portals.
The study has examined more than 10 lakh open jobs spread across 29 Indian states and 7 Union territories. Each job opening was automatically mapped to a generic role and further to the skills that are required to perform that job.
Telangana doesn’t find a place in the top five in the two key skills linked to job creation — Deductive Reasoning and Software Development.
Better showing
Despite Hyderabad emerging as a major hub for software development over the years, Gujarat is ahead of Telangana in software development.
Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu are in top positions in software development due to their traditionally strong IT industry.
Lack skills
Telangana engineering colleges are producing run-of-the-mill kind software professionals reflects in the fact that the State engineers lack deductive reasoning, another key skill in the job market.
Deductive reasoning is the ability to make inferences and decide actions based on data containing multiple textual instructions and simple symbolic rules.
Highest demand for deductive reasoning is observed in Maharashtra (19.77%), followed by Karnataka (17.46%), the study pointed out.
Low ranking
On the availability of the jobs measured on per lakh of population Telangana stands at the 7th position with 56.66 jobs. Chandigarh is on the top with 1,054 jobs per lakh of population but that is due to the fact it is a urban state with best of institutes and companies offering jobs.
What is of concern to Telangana is that the neighbouring states Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra are above it.
Key Skills
The report finds that Software Development and Sales are the most sought-after professions, and English Comprehension and Reasoning are the most in-demand skills.
CEO of Aspiring Minds Himanshu Aggarwal said that students spend time and money learning the wrong skills for the wrong jobs.
Course correction
The government skill ecosystem including NSDC, state skill missions and rural development efforts, can use this alarming information to choose the right areas to invest their capital and efforts.
For the purpose of study 367 most trending professions in the knowledge economy in India were picked up and grouped into 92 generic job roles and further mapped to 87 skills required to perform them, the CEO of the job skill credentialling company explained.
