At the outset, I would like to state that I run an organization, which specializes in training and placements of junior IT manpower. It has been run successfully for the past 4 years and has many of the major IT players as its clients. In this article, I am sharing some of the learnings we have gained through our experience.
For the last of couple years, specially duriing and after the debable of 2009, all the IT companies have been looking at multiple ways of cutting their costs. Since, the major portion of an IT consulting firms cost is "Resource Cost", their has been lot of focus in reducing the "resource cost". One of the levers, some of the top IT firms have been focussing hard is using lesse qualified candidates at the entry level. What they are essentially doing is hiring B.Sc.(Maths), B.Sc.(IT), BCAs and BBAs instead of BE/BTech, MCA and MBA. The idea being to put this group on a lower pay structure.
We have been helping some of the top names with this kind of hiring under the Train and Deploy model, where we provide trainings to these candidates on particular technology area. Off late, we have noticed that, it is getting difficult to source these profiles, primarily because of the following reasons:
1. Most of the IT companies want 60%+ marks through out. These days, here are very few students, who get 60% marks in 10th and 12th and they do BSc. Most of them would land upo doing BE/BTech from private engineering college.
2. BCA students have learnt that it is better to spend one more year and do MCA rather than taking up the job as BCA and being at a different grade throughout the career.
3. Most of the BCA institutes don't want to loose their BCA students to the jobs, since they are their cusomers for MCA and hence they keep these students under strong influence and ensure that they don't take jobs.
4. Communication skills are very poor amongst this group as a lot of them don't have the right atmosphere at home and they land up not clearing the communication/HR round.
Given the above reasons, there is an acute shortage of BCA, BSc(Maths), BSc(IT) students with good academic track record and communication skiils. Most of the 2010 passouts had more than two goos job offers. This demand and supply gap is leading to a lot of good students opting for BCA and BSc(IT) instead of doing BTechs at private colleges. So, if you are a corporate and would like to use this lever, you will need to have this well planned out with proper research on colleges and their catchment areas.
For more information, please write to shekhar.tyagi@novosas.com
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