‘Entry level candidates need to develop skills around mobile computing and analytics’

Interview of the day: ‘Entry level candidates need to develop skills around mobile computing and analytics’

Sumit Sood, vice president, Middle East and Asia, Virtusa Corporation

Basics of tech talent strategy

Attitude: Since our industry has gone through a boom time over the last decade and a half, there has been a sense of complacency or in other words dos and don’ts have seeped in from the workforce perspective.

Aptitude: It becomes important because technology is changing at such a rapid pace that each one of us has to unlearn the past and learn something new constantly. For example: technology professionals learn something completely new in every 18-24 months, the moment the old ones become redundant.

Innovation: Being able to help clients innovate better or optimise their operations better. The whole idea is how to apply the current technologies for the betterment of any business.

Required skills

Entry level: Baseline skills like JAVA J2EE, mainframe technologies, .NET. What’s becoming more and more important is to develop additional skills such as mobile computing, analytics and intelligence, cloud computing technologies, etc.

Mid-level: A lot of mid level managers are not well equipped with emotional quotient (EQ). They might be great project managers or expert in communicating with their clients, but often their EQ is lacking. These managers are the ones who manage the employees on a daily basis, so without adequate EQ it becomes a challenge.

Senior-level: The ability to partner with clients – not someone who’s delivering what he has been asked to, but someone who is also assessing what’s happening in the client’s business. The more one develops a relationship with the client, the more they understand the specificity of their business and as a result offer solutions for any given problem.

-          Expertise in the client’s business domain

-          Know about the emerging technologies

-          Avenues that are getting created for the application of the latest technologies

-          Strong communication and ability to build bridges

Ways to retain tech talent

Entry level: Career mapping is the key thing here. Focusing on the freshers to map out their careers is very crucial to retain right talent. Industries should stop treating freshers are commodities; help create leaders within the company.

Mid-level: Giving proper recognition, recognising potential, giving them opportunity to start on things where they have potential and not what they are already doing.

Senior level: Making these employees realise their net worth towards value creation and company’s growth; helping them to identify their impact on the company’s overall development; giving them increasing opportunities to get recognised outside the firm.

Recruitment challenges

Technical foundations that are laid down by educational institutions are very good. But it takes some effort to convert that foundation into business readiness. Key challenge is to bridge that gap in colleges.

There aren’t too many graduates who are rolled out of colleges with right soft skills. Given the globalisation of the industry, they are expected to visit clients in public forums or on other occasions and these graduates are not ready to do the necessary talking.

It’s absolutely crucial to understanding work culture, writing effective emails, work around building appropriate communication skills, business etiquettes, etc.

Importance of training & development to retain top tech talent

Providing relevant training (project management, time management); creating an avenue for self-learning time.

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