British Deputy High Commissioner (Chennai) Bharat Joshi exhorted Indian youth to explore job opportunities that companies in the United Kingdom offered them. British companies have taken Indian talent across the world and they looked forward to more youngsters coming to work and eventually becoming British citizens in the coming years.
“Ours is a land of opportunities where people can progress regardless of age provided they are talented enough to add value to our companies,” he observed.
Participating as chief guest in the inauguration of Andhra chapter of Industry Institute Interface (III), a not-for-profit organisation formed by industries and academic institutions based in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, at Siddhartha College of Arts and Science here on Saturday, Mr. Joshi said the British companies would invest in the future of talented professionals no matter which country they originate from and Indians were also welcome to shape their careers in the UK. “We invest in talent and their careers and they can be assured of the best conditions in the UK,” he asserted.
Mr. Joshi went on to say that India, which has a significant presence of British firms, had no dearth of engineering graduates but companies had to invest in them to a point where they could deliver up to the expectations of employers. This was where the industry-institute interaction becomes extremely crucial and entities like the III should foster relationships between the stakeholders so that employability factor improves.
K.R.S.R. Krishna, vice-president of Petrofac India, the Indian subsidiary of London-based EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) company, said youth should look beyond their domain expertise as companies around the world expected them to have communication skills, multi-tasking capabilities and project-orientation to grab opportunities around the world.
NASSCOM regional director (Chennai) K. Purushothaman, V.T. Chandrasekhara Rao of AMEC Foster Wheeler, Indian Society of Training and Development national president Yogesh Kumar Upadhyay, Tech Mahindra AGM Satya Thopalli and ChipEdge Technologies (Bangalore) CEO Venkateswara Rao Sunkara spoke.
British Deputy High Commissioner (Chennai) Bharat Joshi says the British companies will invest in the future of talented professionals
