SPECIAL ARTICLE
december 2017 | dl.eletsonline.com
digitalLEARNING @dl_magazine digitallearningonlineBoosting student
employaBility with
internship
Most graduates are faced with a peculiar situation to be employed in their field of study. In
a traditional hiring system, they cannot get a break without experience and this experience
cannot be gained until any company hires the candidate. dipen pradhan of elets news
network (enn) explores employability opportunity for students through Internship.T
he trade and industry sector, for instance,
conducts its own test while hiring and is not
happy with the result. They argue that most
universities in India produce graduates, post-
graduates and diploma or certificate holders, who
are unemployable.
So worrying is the situation that it has set off
alarms as the number of graduates in the nation
continues to increase with no job, and mostly
ending up to opt jobs in other sectors adding to
the burgeoning unemployment in the country,
which is expected to reach 18 million in 2018.
The University Grants Commission (UGC)report reveals that the number of graduate
students doubled from 11,908,151 in 2008
to 24,593,321 in 2016. As of February this
year, 789 universities, 37,204 colleges and
11,443 stand-alone institutions were functioning
across India.
Meanwhile, only 641,000 jobs were created
from July 2014 to December 2016 in sectors —
manufacturing, trade, construction, education,
health, information technology, transport, and
accommodation & restaurant, according to
Economic Survey report.
Although the Government of India has