IIT students have communication problems: Archana Ram

CHENNAI: Even students from prestigious IITs and NITs are having communication problems as they mainly focus on engineering colleges, according to Archana Ram, managing director, Smart Training Resources India.

“Last year we trained about 2,000 students from IITs. IIT students are mathematically strong. However, quite a few of them lack communication skills and they also wanted help in career marketing skills. They wanted  to know how to get a resume in order and what to say in interviews,” she told reporters here on Thursday.

Explaining Smart's expansion plans to Tier-II and Tier-III cities, she said, “Our mission is to train 3 million young Indians by 2020.” “We start the intervention as early as the first year. We train students for rigours of campus recruitment process which involves everything from language skills to an aptitude test and soft skills,” she said.

Along with the campus placement training, company-specific training is also gaining popularity among colleges. “We have fantastic results for company specific training. VIT had a world record of 5,828 placements in 2015 and they beat their own record with 10,945 placements this year,” she added.