ENLIGHTENING STUDENTS: Chairman of Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education K.C. Reddy addressing a press conference in Vijayawada on Tuesday. Vice-Chancellor of Acharya Nagarjuna University V. Bala Mohandas and Director of Institute of Servi ce Management, APSCHE, Sandhya, are also seen. — PHOTO: RAJU V.

VIJAYAWADA: Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) and NASSCOM will organise Career Awareness and Recruitment Drive (CARD) on April 22 and 23 at Maris Stella College.

"It is basically an awareness drive aimed at informing students and their parents about the changing requirements of the industry," said K.C. Reddy, chairman of the council at a press meet here on Tuesday. He said seven companies would participate in the drive and major companies like Wipro may join soon. Students would get an opportunity to directly interact with representatives of various industries. This would help them focus on skill development, he said.

Need for skilled staff

Jobs in IT-enabled services were in great demand and coming days would witness business activity worth $300 billion in the IT sector, according to a NASSCOM survey. Though India had enough manpower, the industry was looking for skilled staff. Therefore, skill development became the need of the hour, he said. There was a shortage of 0.5 million skilled employees.

Curriculum changes

Dwelling at length on the changes in the pattern of English teaching and evaluation, Prof. Reddy said that students, who used to answers the question papers on a white sheet, were now going through tests of listening and speaking also. Prof. Reddy also said that the Government was working on changing the curriculum at undergraduate level by introducing courses to suit industry needs.

ASK factor

Vice-Chancellor of ANU V. Balamohan Das said the three key alphabets `KSA' denoting knowledge, skills and attitude in that order were now interchanged to `ASK' indicating that attitude was of utmost importance followed by skills and knowledge. "A blend of positive attitude and communication skills is what the industry is hunting for," he pointed out.

Director of Institute of Service Management (a wing of APSCHE) Sandhya said registrations would commence at 9.00 a.m. on both days. She said students of other universities would also be allowed to participate in the drive and a registration fee of Rs. 10 would be collected. Any final year student, graduate, post-graduate, employed and unemployed persons could participate. Students are advised to bring 10 copies of their photographs and 10 copies of resume with them.

The drive was conducted by Andhra University in January this year. The drive is an initiative to bring major ITES and IT companies to two-tier cities.

The companies that would participate in the awareness and job-recruitment drive include GE-Consumer Finance, ADP, GENPACT, HSBC, IVY Computech Pvt. Ltd., 24/7 Customer, KNOAH Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Accenture, Infosys etc.

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