IT training companies on rise

Indian IT companies have slowed down their pace of hiring from Engineering colleges.  While the demand of IT professionals has not come down, they have simply found a different recruiting hub- training institutes.

The advent of niche technology training centres like NIIT and Aptech offering new technology areas like cloud computing, mobile and data analytics are gaining importance in Indian software companies. In the past few years, with the growth in technology, software companies cannot simply offer traditional services.  The training institutes arm students with new-age skills, which traditional IT engineers do not possess. And the number of new institutes with post-training placements in IT companies cropping up across the country is the proof of the same.

Wipro Technologies already has a team of 1000 employees working on these new technologies and is expected to hire more. Software Engineering students too have started joining training institutes that assure them a job placement.  Ironic, that a professionally qualified student has to once again enroll himself/herself in a coaching institute to become employable. Isn’t there a BIG message there, screaming for an overhaul of our education system?