The Industry-Academia Interactions Offers Us Opportunity To Engage With Faculty And Influence Curriculum Design Of Institutions Whom We Engage With

Anshuman Ray, Senior Director, HR, Synopsys India gives his perspective on the HR challenges in an interview to Dataquest. Excerpts:

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If you look at the ICT skills landscape, what according to you are the 2 challenges the industry is facing now?

1. We struggle to get talent who have a good blend of deep Technical Skills and Frontline leadership Competencies

2. We notice visible gaps between academic-brilliance and industry-readiness of talent who are passing out from institutions.

The digital disruption coupled with automation has completely changed the nature of tech skills required for today’s ICT jobs – as an organisation how are you coping with sourcing the right skills?