According to the Annual Employability Survey by Aspiring Minds, 2.5% of Indian engineers possess technical skills in artificial intelligence (AI) that the industry requires Many sectors are aggressively adopting new-age technologies like machine learning, creating new job opportunities--however, a massive skills gap exists across industries. According to the Annual Employability Survey by Aspiring Minds, 80% of Indian engineers are not fit for jobs in the knowledge economy. Only 2.5% of them possess technical skills in artificial intelligence (AI) that the industry requires. According to the Annual Employability Survey by Aspiring Minds, 2.5% of Indian engineers possess technical skills in artificial intelligence (AI) that the industry requires Many sectors are aggressively adopting new-age technologies like machine learning, creating new job opportunities--however, a massive skills gap exists across industries. According to the Annual Employability Survey by Aspiring Minds, 80% of Indian engineers are not fit for jobs in the knowledge economy.

A prototype of a self-driven industrial vehicle stole the show on the first day of the India Science Fest at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) held on Saturday. The self-driven industrial vehicle offers shifting of material from one place to another at the moment. Another exhibition will be organised on Sunday, January 12. At the exhibition held on Saturday, various organisations came forward to present innovative and futuristic experiments and prototypes of models which offer solutions to modern problems. Another highlight of the exhibition was a mutant fly which could possibly be a replacement for mice in pharmaceutical experiments, according to the exhibitors.

Upward of four million graduates enter the labor market every year in India alone. India boasts of a large services economy, wherein a single company hires thousands of new employees every year. Meanwhile, product companies and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) look for a few skilled people each. This requires cost-effective and scalable methods of hiring. Interviewing every applicant is not a feasible solution.

Finding the right candidates and matching them with the right role is at the core of HR, but it's beyond human capacity to do this without an error, merely on the basis of an individual's resume. A resume may be full of data without any concrete information about skill-sets, making it difficult for the recruitment head to identify suitable applicants. As the world sees it, only the right skills take you places and not just the academic background. Candidates with the most appropriate skills are likely to produce the best outcomes in a particular job function. But only a technology that maps the job skills can help companies avoid the mistake of making a bad hire.

NEW DELHI: The world of jobs is in a state of flux, thanks to rising adoption of artificial intelligence, and the jobs that are most vulnerable to this automation drive are software-IT and customer services, says a report. According to a report by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds, customer service, software and IT and accounting jobs have very high automation potential. "Customer service jobs have the highest automation potential (64 per cent). This can be attributed to the fact that the processes in this function are repetitive and can be automated to a significant extent," the report said. Automation powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning and bots has created a state of uneasiness among workers as machines and bots are being brought to outperform humans in various tasks.

Mumbai: Gurgaon-based employability assessment company Aspiring Minds is perhaps best known for giving the industry a very dim view of the quality of engineers in India. According to its 20 January report, "more than 80% of engineers in India continue to be unemployable". Aspiring Minds, however, does much more than just track the employability of engineers in the country. In the words of its co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds is "interested in the big picture". "We ask questions like, 'How do we identify what jobs people in the job market will be successful at?'; 'How do we make this assessment, or automatically assess programming skills?'; 'Or, for that matter, gauge how well a candidate speaks English?'"