A study of the employability skills engineering students and prospective employers in the state of telangana

Purpose of this paper is to study the perception of Employers as wells employees towards employability skills required for Entry level engineering graduates in multinational software companies. It is an exploratory study. Two sets of questionnaires were developed to assess the perception of skill set required by employers and graduate students. The study revealed that there is significant difference between the perception of students and their employers. It is this disparity makes the students unemployable. Literature and research about the employability skills of Indian engineers are rare in nature. Further the available literature narrates the story from employer's perspectives. But in this paper both students and employers’ perception is included.