Employability and Skill Set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India

Skill shortage remains one of the major constraints to continued growth of the Indian economy. This employer survey seeks to address this knowledge-gap by answering three questions: (i) Which skills do employers consider important when hiring new e...

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Main Authors:	Blom, Andreas, Saeki, Hiroshi
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	ACCREDITATION ANALYTICAL TOOLS ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY ASSESSMENT METHODS ATTENTION BASIC SKILLS CALL CATEGORIZATION CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE CLASSROOM COGNITIVE SKILLS COMMUNICATION SKILLS COMPETENCE COMPETENCIES COMPLEXITY COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SKILLS CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT CREATIVE EXPLORATION CREATIVE THINKING CREATIVITY CRITICAL THINKING CURRICULA CURRICULUM DATA COLLECTION DISCUSSION DISCUSSIONS DOMAINS ECONOMIC SECTORS EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL GOALS EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES EMPATHY ENGINEERING EDUCATION ENGINEERS ENTREPRENEURSHIP ETHICS EXAMS GLOBALIZATION HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS HUMAN RESOURCES IDEA IDEAS IDENTITY IMAGINATION INFORMATION SYSTEMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION INTERRELATIONSHIPS KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION LEADERSHIP LEARNING LEARNING DESIGN LEARNING OUTCOMES LEARNING PROCESS LEARNING SKILLS LET LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE LIFELONG LEARNING LITERACY MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION MEMORY MOBILITY MODELING MOTIVATION PAPERS PEDAGOGY PERCEPTION PERSONALITY PERSONALITY TRAITS PROBLEM SOLVING PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONS PROGRAMMING PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOMOTOR SKILLS READING REPETITION RURAL AREAS SCHOOL CURRICULUM SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SELF CONFIDENCE STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES STUDENT PERFORMANCE TEACHER TEACHERS TEACHING TECHNICAL COLLEGES TECHNICAL EDUCATION TEXTBOOKS UNIVERSITIES VERBAL COMMUNICATION VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WILLING TO LEARN WORD PROCESSING WORKFORCE WORKPLACE
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spelling	okr-10986-34042021-04-23T14:02:09Z Employability and Skill Set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India Blom, Andreas Saeki, Hiroshi ACCREDITATION ANALYTICAL TOOLS ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY ASSESSMENT METHODS ATTENTION BASIC SKILLS CALL CATEGORIZATION CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE CLASSROOM COGNITIVE SKILLS COMMUNICATION SKILLS COMPETENCE COMPETENCIES COMPLEXITY COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SKILLS CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT CREATIVE EXPLORATION CREATIVE THINKING CREATIVITY CRITICAL THINKING CURRICULA CURRICULUM DATA COLLECTION DISCUSSION DISCUSSIONS DOMAINS ECONOMIC SECTORS EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL GOALS EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES EMPATHY ENGINEERING EDUCATION ENGINEERS ENTREPRENEURSHIP ETHICS EXAMS GLOBALIZATION HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS HUMAN RESOURCES IDEA IDEAS IDENTITY IMAGINATION INFORMATION SYSTEMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION INTERRELATIONSHIPS KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION LEADERSHIP LEARNING LEARNING DESIGN LEARNING OUTCOMES LEARNING PROCESS LEARNING SKILLS LET LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE LIFELONG LEARNING LITERACY MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION MEMORY MOBILITY MODELING MOTIVATION PAPERS PEDAGOGY PERCEPTION PERSONALITY PERSONALITY TRAITS PROBLEM SOLVING PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONS PROGRAMMING PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOMOTOR SKILLS READING REPETITION RURAL AREAS SCHOOL CURRICULUM SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SELF CONFIDENCE STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES STUDENT PERFORMANCE TEACHER TEACHERS TEACHING TECHNICAL COLLEGES TECHNICAL EDUCATION TEXTBOOKS UNIVERSITIES VERBAL COMMUNICATION VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WILLING TO LEARN WORD PROCESSING WORKFORCE WORKPLACE Skill shortage remains one of the major constraints to continued growth of the Indian economy. This employer survey seeks to address this knowledge-gap by answering three questions: (i) Which skills do employers consider important when hiring new engineering graduates? (ii) How satisfied are employers with the skills of engineering graduates? and (iii) In which important skills are the engineers falling short? The results confirm a widespread dissatisfaction with the current graduates -- 64 percent of employers hiring fresh engineering graduates are only somewhat satisfied with the quality of the new hires or worse. After classifying all skills by factor analysis, the authors find that employers perceive Soft Skills (Core Employability Skills and Communication Skills) to be very important. Skill gaps are particularly severe in the higher-order thinking skills ranked according to Bloom's taxonomy. In contrast, communication in English has the smallest skill gap, but remains one of the most demanded skills by the employers. Although employers across India asks for the same set of soft skills, their skill demands differ for Professional Skills across economic sectors, company sizes, and regions. These findings suggest that engineering education institutions should: (i) seek to improve the skill set of graduates; (ii) recognize the importance of Soft Skills, (iii) refocus the assessments, teaching-learning process, and curricula away from lower-order thinking skills, such as remembering and understanding, toward higher-order skills, such as analyzing and solving engineering problems, as well as creativity; and (iv) interact more with employers to understand the particular demand for skills in that region and sector. 2012-03-19T18:01:52Z 2012-03-19T18:01:52Z 2011-04-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110425112950 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3404 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5640 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia South Asia South Asia Asia India
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topic	ACCREDITATION ANALYTICAL TOOLS ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY ASSESSMENT METHODS ATTENTION BASIC SKILLS CALL CATEGORIZATION CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE CLASSROOM COGNITIVE SKILLS COMMUNICATION SKILLS COMPETENCE COMPETENCIES COMPLEXITY COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SKILLS CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT CREATIVE EXPLORATION CREATIVE THINKING CREATIVITY CRITICAL THINKING CURRICULA CURRICULUM DATA COLLECTION DISCUSSION DISCUSSIONS DOMAINS ECONOMIC SECTORS EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL GOALS EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES EMPATHY ENGINEERING EDUCATION ENGINEERS ENTREPRENEURSHIP ETHICS EXAMS GLOBALIZATION HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS HUMAN RESOURCES IDEA IDEAS IDENTITY IMAGINATION INFORMATION SYSTEMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION INTERRELATIONSHIPS KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION LEADERSHIP LEARNING LEARNING DESIGN LEARNING OUTCOMES LEARNING PROCESS LEARNING SKILLS LET LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE LIFELONG LEARNING LITERACY MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION MEMORY MOBILITY MODELING MOTIVATION PAPERS PEDAGOGY PERCEPTION PERSONALITY PERSONALITY TRAITS PROBLEM SOLVING PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONS PROGRAMMING PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOMOTOR SKILLS READING REPETITION RURAL AREAS SCHOOL CURRICULUM SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SELF CONFIDENCE STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES STUDENT PERFORMANCE TEACHER TEACHERS TEACHING TECHNICAL COLLEGES TECHNICAL EDUCATION TEXTBOOKS UNIVERSITIES VERBAL COMMUNICATION VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WILLING TO LEARN WORD PROCESSING WORKFORCE WORKPLACE
spellingShingle	ACCREDITATION ANALYTICAL TOOLS ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY ASSESSMENT METHODS ATTENTION BASIC SKILLS CALL CATEGORIZATION CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE CLASSROOM COGNITIVE SKILLS COMMUNICATION SKILLS COMPETENCE COMPETENCIES COMPLEXITY COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SKILLS CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT CREATIVE EXPLORATION CREATIVE THINKING CREATIVITY CRITICAL THINKING CURRICULA CURRICULUM DATA COLLECTION DISCUSSION DISCUSSIONS DOMAINS ECONOMIC SECTORS EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL GOALS EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES EMPATHY ENGINEERING EDUCATION ENGINEERS ENTREPRENEURSHIP ETHICS EXAMS GLOBALIZATION HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS HUMAN RESOURCES IDEA IDEAS IDENTITY IMAGINATION INFORMATION SYSTEMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION INTERRELATIONSHIPS KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION LEADERSHIP LEARNING LEARNING DESIGN LEARNING OUTCOMES LEARNING PROCESS LEARNING SKILLS LET LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE LIFELONG LEARNING LITERACY MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION MEMORY MOBILITY MODELING MOTIVATION PAPERS PEDAGOGY PERCEPTION PERSONALITY PERSONALITY TRAITS PROBLEM SOLVING PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONS PROGRAMMING PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOMOTOR SKILLS READING REPETITION RURAL AREAS SCHOOL CURRICULUM SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SELF CONFIDENCE STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES STUDENT PERFORMANCE TEACHER TEACHERS TEACHING TECHNICAL COLLEGES TECHNICAL EDUCATION TEXTBOOKS UNIVERSITIES VERBAL COMMUNICATION VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WILLING TO LEARN WORD PROCESSING WORKFORCE WORKPLACE Blom, Andreas Saeki, Hiroshi Employability and Skill Set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India
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description	Skill shortage remains one of the major constraints to continued growth of the Indian economy. This employer survey seeks to address this knowledge-gap by answering three questions: (i) Which skills do employers consider important when hiring new engineering graduates? (ii) How satisfied are employers with the skills of engineering graduates? and (iii) In which important skills are the engineers falling short? The results confirm a widespread dissatisfaction with the current graduates -- 64 percent of employers hiring fresh engineering graduates are only somewhat satisfied with the quality of the new hires or worse. After classifying all skills by factor analysis, the authors find that employers perceive Soft Skills (Core Employability Skills and Communication Skills) to be very important. Skill gaps are particularly severe in the higher-order thinking skills ranked according to Bloom's taxonomy. In contrast, communication in English has the smallest skill gap, but remains one of the most demanded skills by the employers. Although employers across India asks for the same set of soft skills, their skill demands differ for Professional Skills across economic sectors, company sizes, and regions. These findings suggest that engineering education institutions should: (i) seek to improve the skill set of graduates; (ii) recognize the importance of Soft Skills, (iii) refocus the assessments, teaching-learning process, and curricula away from lower-order thinking skills, such as remembering and understanding, toward higher-order skills, such as analyzing and solving engineering problems, as well as creativity; and (iv) interact more with employers to understand the particular demand for skills in that region and sector.
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author	Blom, Andreas Saeki, Hiroshi
author_facet	Blom, Andreas Saeki, Hiroshi
author_sort	Blom, Andreas
title	Employability and Skill Set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India
title_short	Employability and Skill Set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India
title_full	Employability and Skill Set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India
title_fullStr	Employability and Skill Set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India
title_full_unstemmed	Employability and Skill Set of Newly Graduated Engineers in India
title_sort	employability and skill set of newly graduated engineers in india
publishDate	2012
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