According to the “India Skill Report 2014,” a wide survey on youth employability carried out among 100,000 students and 100 employers published last week, two thirds of young Indian graduates don’t have the necessary skills to enter the labor market. Large businesses in the subcontinent have had to develop their own refresher programs but want higher education to be more oriented towards the economic world. (Ref. 130778)
In India, the corporate world has been complaining for a long time now: young graduates aren’t professional enough. Last week, the “India Skills Report 2014” gave a statistical reality to this phenomenon. Two thirds of the students surveyed by this large investigation are deemed “unemployable” when they enter the labor market. For this survey, the PeopleStrong and Wheebox HR cabinets, together with the Confederation of Indian Industry, evaluated the skills of 100,000 young graduates in...
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