NASSCOMM and its eminent member companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Mindtree, and Xansa etc. have been consistently raising their concerns about serious SKILL-DEFICITS in fresh engineers graduating from Indian engineering colleges and computer schools. The inability of these engineers to communicate properly, work in teams and comprehend and empathize with client-needs makes their employability very low.

Techlap^TM by SkillRoots MaxLearn is India’s very first and the most powerful training program for fresh IT professionals aiming at enhancing their “EMPLOYABILITY” by plugging some serious soft-skills gaps.

Companies today require those technology professionals, programmers and engineers, who can work along in teams, who are exposed to real-life technology implementation challenges, who can communicate effectively to a worldwide audience and perhaps most importantly, those who show an ability to rise above machines and codes and look at the needs of customers. Techlap^TM seeks to attack exactly these problem areas in its tightly structured 100 hour skill-builder workshop program.

Currently being incubated on randomly selected fresh engineers from small technology schools, Techlap^TM expects to hit the marquee in March 2006. Talks are on with leading technology companies to further fine tune the various modules in the program.

Techlap^TM is a versatile program and will be offered in two versions, to begin with V-1 is to be offered to final year engineering students; and V-2 will be offered to tech companies for embedding in their Graduate Engineers Induction program.

Key Skills to be developed under the Techlap^TM include:

1. Basics of Business & Organization Behavior
2. How to Communicate in Heterogenous & cross-cultural Teamwork Situations
3. How to Communicate with Clients, Senior Executives & Peers
4. Interpersonal Problems handling and tackling inhibitions and low self-esteem
5. Team Building and Team playing
6. Group Dynamics
7. Client handling and conduct in external and internal meetings
8. Introduction to SDLC, Project Management and CMM
9. Exposure to latest business and management practices
10. How to leverage Relationships and networks

To know more about TechLap write to techlap@skillroots.com.