The Menace of Poor Employability of Engineering Students
Abstract
The matching of required competencies in view of adoption of New Age technologies by industry with that of currently prepared engineering undergraduates will continue to sustain as a difficult exercise, especially when the success in definition of employability remains constrained. Moreover, the objectives of the industry (employer), job seeker (future employee) and of the government are all focused with varies perspectives. In such a scenario both the success in employability, and the national development suffers. Through this paper the authors make an attempt to re-explore the issue to identify the potholes and the solutions there to.
Apart from the use of secondary data, the brainwriting tool has been deployed to construct an FMEA and the cause and effect diagram, with the different provides of tools and different perspectives of employee and the employer respectively. The solutions to various issues that
affect employability or the quality of new engineering undergraduates have been proposed.
How to cite this article: Thareja M, Thareja P. The Menace of Poor Employability of Engineering Students. J Adv Res Prod Ind Engg 2019; 6(1&2): 21-31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2456.429X.201903
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