Comments on: Running Out Of Knowledge Workers

By: sv

sv — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:08:27 +0000

The government is meddling with private higher education in the form of caste based reservations. So, the supply will be affected because the private sector educationists will be discouraged by the government intervention. May be, the knowledge worker jobs will move to China where things seem to be merit based.

By: AK

AK — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:18:56 +0000

I was under the impression that is not enough demand and a high supply. For example the one million applications for 10,000 jobs at Infosys. I don’t know exactly what level of educational ability was necessary for the positions, but still seems there is not enough jobs to go around. I could be wrong though.

By: Vishal

Vishal — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:00:11 +0000

I think it is problem of quantity and more importantly quality. And out education system needs a complete overhoul to make our resource have edge over every other country.

By: Prasanna

Prasanna — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:12:06 +0000

I think its time the industry took some of the blame too. I have seen specific branches (in engg.) being created on industry demand – but the industry not giving enough fillip to it, or worse, ignoring the field specifically created on its demand(in terms of recruitment of course).

The gap can be bridged if the industry puts in enough effort – and its money where its mouth is.

By: Ajit Mukherjee

Ajit Mukherjee — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:16:59 +0000

Well i guess this situation would also provide an opportunity both politically, economically and socially to interact with Pakistan and tap the talent pool there.

I believe Wipro or one of the major IT company of India has signed an MoU with one of the pakistani companies in this regard.