Training requirement for engineering design

According to the Nasscom-Booz Allen Hamilton report on engineering services offshoring, though the potential for India in engineering services is in the range of $12 bn to $16 bn by 2010, the most likely scenario would be in the region of $3-5 bn.
While the report identifies many reasons including lack of infrastructure, the biggest challenge happens to be manpower. Today, most of the engineering services companies hire a mix of fresher and experienced workforce. The composition of workforce is far more inclined towards experienced professionals than fresh talent. Domain experience is quite critical in this area.
In the traditional IT services space, learning and unlearning of skills are fairly rapid. Also, it is possible to rotate large number of employees across verticals. In engineering services, that is not so. It is unrealistic to expect an automotive engineer to do construction design. Also, the number of people in a project team having in-depth domain knowledge is just about 10%-15% in IT; whereas it could be as high as 45% in engineering services.
Recruitment poses a challenge, especially in fields where Indian engineering is not that developed. Most companies hire locally, though acquisitions have helped in getting the right skills, to some extent.
Internal training is something that even the smallest of players spend heavily on. Unless there is a mechanism to address this challenge, acquiring and nurturing talent could be a bottleneck .
(Source http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/DQTop20_07/ITGaints07/2007/407080323.asp)
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