Today, employers no longer look to recruit fresh graduates and then spend a fortune on training them to fit into the job profile.
Instead, they look for industry-ready fresh graduates, who can instantly fit into the job requirement, said Sairam Bollapragada, vice-president of Tech Mahindra.
He was here on Tuesday to address the students at the inaugural session of the six-day workshop on Android programming being organised by the Department of Computer Science, Andhra University College of Engineering (Autonomous).
According to Mr. Sairam, the industry-academia interface should increase and improve to make student ‘delivery ready’.
Appreciating the initiative to host the six-day workshop he said, “Students need to attend more such workshops that deal with new and path breaking technology.”
Software is a subject that keeps changing at a rapid pace. “You stop learning — you become obsolete,” he said.
According to him, there is a huge gap between the quality of knowledge and requirement and this can be bridged by industry-academia interface.
“Jobs will shrink from 40,000 per billion to 15,000 per billion and to get into that elite bus one needs to upgrade and stay tuned to the technology,” cautioned Mr. Sairam Bollapragada.
Android is the future
Delivering the inaugural address, Head of the Department of Computer Science P.V.G.D. Prasad Reddy pointed out that Android programming is the future.
“Today, 85 per cent of the mobiles work on Android application and the day is not far when desktops will be replaced by I-phones and smart phones. So far there is no computer course which has a built-in Android programming and this workshop which is open to all students will be beneficial,” he said.
According to him, the Internet of Things (IOT) is the latest upcoming technology and the AU is planning to start an IOT lab in collaboration with Tech Mahindra.
He also said that workshops on cloud computing and data analytics would follow shortly.
Rosa Arriaga, Senior Scientist from the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing, USA, in her address said mobile applications had a social impact.
Principal of AUCOE P.S. Avadhani, former Principal Ramachandra Murthy, Prof. G. Sashibhushan Rao and others spoke.
