‘Skills, not degrees alone, define success in today’s job market’

The contention contiguous is nary longer betwixt engineering students alone, but betwixt those who person applicable skills and those who bash not, that’s however the script is changing, said V. Udaya Shankar, Director, Nasscom Talent Council and Co-Founder of Maatram Foundation. While a grade and choosing a bully assemblage stay important, helium stressed that acquiring the close skills is adjacent much important.

Mr. Shankar further pointed retired that companies contiguous are nary longer hiring based connected degrees alone, with adjacent value present fixed to accomplishment sets crossed domains. Talking to students and parents astatine the 23^rd variation of the two-day The Hindu EducationPlus Career Counseling Fair ‘26 connected Sunday connected the taxable ‘Skill Development and Industry Expectations from Students’, helium said that quality is indispensable for occurrence successful today’s world, and urged students to put successful gathering it arsenic the astir important skill.