India’s outsourcing industry is expected to face a shortage of 262,000 professionals by 2012. The government “can help by introducing foreign languages in schools and also teach communication skills to students, which will help them gain jobs in the outsourcing sector,” said Kiran Karnik, president of an industry group.

India’s outsourcing and IT research sectors face a looming skills shortage, the nation’s top software industry association warned, while urging the nation’s universities to train students better to fill the gap.

Kiran Karnik, president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), said the body had begun talks with IT firms, universities and governments about improving study courses to equip students for outsourcing and IT research jobs.

“There are two-and-a-half million graduates every year in India,” Karnik told reporters. “[But] the employable pool in this is very, very small. We are working with the universities to train people better.”

Outsourcing Shortage by 2012
“The aim is to have courses meant towards producing graduates with quality. This has to start right from the primary school level,” Karnik said.

read the full story:
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/36556.html