Microsoft is set to assist frontline IT companies in getting on board readily employable graduates from educational institutions.
Infosys, Wipro and PC Solutions may soon hire students trained in Microsoft’s technologies straight from the campus thanks to the latter’s new education resourcing programme.
The three Indian companies have joined hands with Microsoft for ‘Ed-vantage’, an initiative running at 50-odd colleges across the country, Sanket Akerkar, Managing Director of Microsoft India, said on the sidelines of a press meet today.
Under the initiative, Microsoft will set up centres of excellence in the colleges. Students will be trained in Microsoft’s latest technologies even before they are formally launched in the market.
Initially, the one-year programme, which was launched in October last year, will focus on final year graduation students of both engineering and non-engineering streams.
“We will nominate students enrolled for Ed-vantage to our partner organisations, many of whom are system integrators. The students will be readily employable since they have gone through a year of training on our technologies,” said Akerkar. Raj Katari, Director – Geo Expansion of Microsoft India, said the company hopes to partner with 100 more colleges going forward.
Annually Microsoft intends to create ‘250 new internship facilitations and 100 new employment facilitations’ with every partnering institute, added Katari.
Today, Microsoft joined hands with the Viva Group of Institutions for the Ed-vantage programme.
The institution, which is based in the western suburbs of Mumbai, caters to students from Maharashtra and Gujarat.