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Indian Information Technology (IT) industry has witnessed unprecedented growth since the mid-1990s. Being a people-centric business, IT companies have continuously innovated to attract and retain talent needed to sustain the business growth. The rejection rate of on-campus recruitment performance has evidently indicated the necessity to enhance the students’ technical and behavioral knowledge and skills. Inadequacy in teaching and learning infrastructure such as faculty, industry-relevant content, powerful assessment methods, and accelerated learning aids has impacted employability. The Industry Readiness Program has become essential to bridge the skill gap for making the engineering graduates ready for the IT industry. Engineering students who successfully get exposure to such an industry readiness training program can become productive from day 1 in IT industry. This paper talks about the design and implementation of such an industry readiness. This program has also contributed a part of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Fundamental Skills of Information Technology (FSIT) program along with other IT organizations for the students to augment them at par with the IT industry requirements.
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Deka, B., Vani, K.N., Chatarajupalli, S., Manisha, Singh, A., Sarma, K.V.R.S. (2015). Essential IT Skills to Learning Community for Industry Readiness. In: Natarajan, R. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1931-6_23
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