“NIIT making engineers ‘job-ready’ for IT industry”: NIIT
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Students awarded GNIIT title at NIIT Graduation Day in Bhopal
Bhopal, June 7, 2007: Asia’s largest IT trainer, NIIT
organised the 25th Graduation Ceremony for students in the city today.
Addressing students on the occasion, Mr. P. Rajendran, Chief Operating Officer,
NIIT said, “The Indian IT-BPO industry continues to be a sunrise career
destination for the youth. The sector, which has been growing higher than any
other industry segment in the country and generating large number of jobs, is
likely to keep its place as the Number One employer over the next few years.”
At the convocation ceremony, 19 top performers of the GNIIT programme were
awarded titles by Mr. Rajendran. They were among the 116 Graduating students who
gathered at Ravindra Bhawan at Shamla Hills, Bhopal, along with their parents,
to receive the titles. The students have successfully completed one of the most
comprehensive, industry-endorsed IT curriculums—GNIIT, that offers one year’s
industry training through Professional Practice (PP).
As per estimates of NASSCOM, there will be a demand for 850,000 IT services
and 1.4 million ITES-BPO professionals by 2010. The Indian IT industry continues
to look at premier institutes such as NIIT to help fill the large number of
vacant jobs.
Additionally, an estimated two-thirds of 300,000 engineers passing out of
colleges in India, every year, need re-skilling to be readied for demanding IT
jobs. Addressing the demand-supply gap, the training pioneer has launched a
comprehensive portfolio of offering for the engineers and IT graduates under its
‘Edgeineers series’, to make them ‘job-ready’ for the IT industry.
“Since the introduction of NIIT Edgeineers last year, nearly one
lakh engineering and IT students have benefited from these programmes. In fact,
51% of NIIT students placed last year were engineers. This reflects the industry
readiness of NIIT students”, said Mr Rajendran.
The NIIT Edgeineers series offers a range of international certification
programmes in alliance with global IT giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Citrix,
thus giving the students with requisite knowledge to qualify for global
certificates in emerging technology platforms. A significant component of this
series is ‘ANIIT’, which is a special accelerated programme for engineering and
final year students pursuing their master’s in science.
NIIT is training 700 Students from 3 centres in Bhopal city. Last year,
over 45 students from NIIT Bhopal were placed with leading organizations such as
Colgate Palmolive, Convergys, Airtel, ICICI, Newgen Softwares.
Mr Rajendran congratulated the students at the NIIT Graduation Day which
blended seriousness with joy. Dressed in the traditional ‘Graduation’ robe and
hat, NIIT students took oath followed by ‘Hat Rolling’.
About NIIT
NIIT, Asia’s largest IT trainer, offers learning and knowledge solutions in
32 countries. NIIT together with ElementK is now the first and the best choice
for comprehensive learning solutions, worldwide.
Leading IT magazine Dataquest has conferred upon NIIT, the Top IT Training
Company Award 2005-06. Rated among India’s Superbrands (2003-05), NIIT’s
offerings include: Industry-endorsed programs for students seeking careers in IT
– GNIIT, Integrated ANIIT for Engineers (IAE) and Advanced Technology Programs
for IT professionals.
For working professionals, NIIT Imperia, Centre for Advanced
Learning offers Executive Management Education Programmes in
association with Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Ahmedabad, Indore and
Kolkata.
NIIT Institute of Finance Banking & Insurance (IFBI),
with equity participation from ICICI Bank, offers programs in banking.
NIIT’s Corporate Solutions Business, offers integrated
learning solutions (including strategic consulting, learning design, content
development, delivery, technology, assessment and learning management) to
Fortune 500 companies, Universities, Technology companies, Training corporations
and Publishing houses.
NIIT offers turnkey IT integration program for schools. NIIT has provided
computer-based learning to over 5000 government and private
schools.
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