Being part of a fast-changing digital world, the students passing out graduation and post-graduation from different campuses should improve their skills to hyper-scale on digital platforms, according to V. Rajanna, Tata Consultancy Services vice-president and Global Head-Technology Business Unit.
In an interview to The Hindu on how the employment quotient of the graduating students could be increased, he said, apart from communication and soft skills, they have to focus on domain knowledge – digital technologies.
“Incidentally, with the digital economy throwing up several opportunities to young professionals, ample number of jobs are being generated for those specialising on emerging technologies. Today’s technology may be obsolete sometime later. Hence, they have to keep abreast with the change,” he said.
Stating that digital skills would enhance the employment quotient of students, Mr. Rajanna, who was here to sign MoUs with GITAM University, MVGR Engineering College, and Gayatri Vidya Parishad College for Degree and PG Courses, said every organisation should leverage on its strength on the technology front for better customer connectivity.
New business models improve efficiency as well as ensure better productivity. He advised students to gain knowledge on mobility, cloud, automation and adoption of open source technology.
Curriculum
“Skill reorientation has become very vital to our campaign for the digitised world. The educational institutes must revise their curriculum to incorporate chapters in digital technologies based on empirical knowledge,” he stated.
Mr. Rajanna said BSc and BCA students could aim big by undergoing courses such as ‘python’ – a programming knowledge for code readability and infrastructure management (software testing services).
He said the TCS had come forward to tie-up with the educational institutes to encourage remote internships by allowing the students to stay on their campus and do assignments/project reports on the virtual mode. They would also get exposure to experts through interactions on ‘webinar’ (web-based seminars).
