'Hired for Attitude and Trained for Skills' : Engineering Graduates' Employability in Indian Software Services Industry

The aim of this paper was to identify those factors that contributed to the employability of engineering graduates in the campus recruitment process by various companies and to analyse whether the same factors remained as the contributors to the success of the same students in the initial stages of corporate life in software services industry. On analyzing the performance of engineering graduates during their academic pursuit and subsequent performance in software services companies, it was observed that while performance in various non-technical skills has greater impact in ensuring employability of engineering graduates during the campus recruitment drives, proficiency in programming skills has significant influence in predicting a better job performance in the initial learning process in the Information Technology sector