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To enhance employability and augment talent supply for the BPS (Business Process Services) industry, IT services company – Tata Consultancy Services is collaborating with colleges.
Collaborating with colleges may not be new but what the IT major has initiated is - design and offer specialised electives for the BCom and BBA students in the areas of Finance and Accountancy, Retail Analytics and Insurance.
“This will help create a sustainable talent pool for the BPS industry and increase the employability quotient of students,” Ranjan Bandhopadhya, Vice President and Head, TCS BPS said, adding “our plan is to scale up the supply to 10,000 candidates annually.”
TCS started this exercise five years back with initial focus on stand-alone certification courses to enhance employability. The industry-institute collaboration began about three years back, with the company joining hands with select colleges by offering specialised electives to the BCom and BBA students.
Company sources said that 155 students enrolled for the programme in 2013 (the maiden year of this initiative). The three-year full time programme (deployed through BCom and BBA courses) was initially offered only in four institutions such as PSG College of Arts and Science (Coimbatore), Shri Krishna Arts and Science College (Coimbatore), PSGR Krishnammal College for Women (Coimbatore), and Sree Saraswathi Thyagaraja College (Pollachi).
The programme was extended to NGM College in Pollachi and Rathinam Collge in Coimbatore the subsequent year. The enrolment also swelled to 260 across the six colleges.
This specialised programme would be offered at Manipal University in Manipal, CMR Institute of Management Studies in Bengaluru, and St Joseph’s College of Commerce (Autonomous) in Bengaluru in 2015, a company release said.
Bandhopadhya said that the company plans to collaborate with leading universities across the country and scale the supply of graduates with BPS specialisation to about 10,000 annually. The programme incorporates 600 hours of learning in F&A, banking, capital markets, retail, and insurance along with modules on managing BPS.
About 200 students would graduate from the four colleges in 2016, he said.
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