The Hindu Business Line : About 65% engineers get into IT service jobs, only 10% willingly: Survey

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Over 30 per cent of graduating engineers in the country prefer Bangalore
Foreign location is second choice of placement followed by Delhi

Bangalore June 25 It's not Sunnyvale, San Jose or Houston that's the dream destination for a graduating engineer in the country.

A recent student perception survey found that over 30 per cent of graduating engineers in the country prefer Bangalore over any other foreign destination, to start off their careers.

The survey covering 1,300 engineering students from 110 campuses across the country says that a foreign location is the second choice of placement with 20 per cent of the students preferring a foreign posting, Delhi is the third most preferred destination followed by a city closer to their home-towns. These findings are from a student perception study conducted by Campus-Connect, a division of CareerNet Consulting, a Bangalore-based recruitment firm.

Campus-Connect is a focussed consulting group working in the industry-academia space, helping corporates develop a strong presence in T-schools in the country.

The survey also found that while about 65 per cent of the 400,000 graduating engineers get into the IT services domain, it's actually a preferred career choice of only about 10 per cent of the students.

"About 45 per cent of them want to get into higher education and the rest prefer jobs in IT product companies, semi-conductor companies, KPOs, investment banks and manufacturing firms but cannot get into them as the number of jobs are less or the recruitment process is very stringent," according to Mr Rishi Das, Co-founder and CEO, Campus-Connect.

At the time of campus recruitment, 51 per cent of the students said they like to see a crisp and structured company presentation with clear job details, growth prospects and compensation structure, 30 per cent of them prefer want first-hand information about jobs on offer from alumni working in the company.

Interestingly, companies offering lunch, snacks or gifts are seen to be frivolous and manage to attract just about10 per cent of the students.

The student perception survey will be formally released later this week during Continuum '07.

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