Information Technology

The IT industry is one of the largest recruiters of talent in India. With business performance directly correlated to talent, the quality of talent is of utmost importance.

Aspiring Minds solutions for the IT industry are designed to evaluate and acquire the right talent while simultaneously increasing the reach and sourcing capability of your organization. AMCAT – IT is Aspiring Minds assessment suite for the IT industry. Combined with our sourcing solutions it offers a complete solution of sourcing, evaluating and engaging talent.

The Need

Entry level talent is an essential aspect for ensuring growth and a competitive organization structure. Finding employable software engineers, chaffing through hundreds of thousands of engineers is a pain alien to none.

As per the employability study carried out by Aspiring Minds in the year 2010-11, only around17.4% of all technical graduates are employable. While 30% of them are available in the top 300 colleges, the rest are in over 4000+ colleges. Is your hiring quality consistent across hundreds of locations? Has your test been compromised? Are you missing out on good candidates, whereas hiring the wrong ones?

AMCAT-IT has demonstrated exceptional predictive power in technical trainability, soft skill learnability and on-job success in IT roles. Today AMCAT-IT has been successfully deployed by several of the largest IT product and IT services companies in India.

AMCAT IT

AMCAT IT is a suite of language, aptitude and domain assessments. These adaptive and standardized assessment modules help us ensure reliable evaluation and strong differentiation between trainable and unemployable talent.

AMCAT IT includes:

• Language Skills
  • AMCAT English Comprehension
• Cognitive Skills
  • AMCAT Logical Ability
  • AMCAT Quantitative Ability
• Domain Skills
  • AMCAT Computer Programming Principles
  • AMCAT IT Infrastructure
  • AMCAT Java, C++, Unix, SQL

We recommend a combination of these plug-and-play modules depending on the job role and targeted supply. AMCAT IT has been used successfully to hire fresh talent for software engineering, software testing, IT infrastructure management and for a variety of lateral roles.

Trainability and Performance

The capability to hire trainable candidates i.e. to pick raw talent and craft them into a successful IT professional through internal training is the key to success for any entry level hiring program. For being able to ensure 100% training success one needs to hire the right candidates. Estimates predict each training failure costs the company anywhere between 1.5 to 2.5 times the annual compensation.

Being able to predict actual job performance is the hallmark of Aspiring Minds talent evaluation solutions. With a dearth of trained talent, IT companies look forward to both minimal thresholds of knowledge and trainability.

IT professional's job success depends on both technical competence and soft skills. Technically competent professionals are expected to be good at problem solving and programming skills. The candidate’s soft-skills determine the ability to comprehend instructions, plan his tasks and communicate with clients and colleagues.

AMCAT-IT® evaluates candidates across competencies required to succeed in the IT industry – Language, Aptitude and Domain Knowledge.

Aspiring Minds Research Cell's studies show that AMCAT English and AMCAT Logical Ability predict soft skill trainability with a high correlation, while Logical and Quantitative Ability correlate with technical training performance. Computer Programming Principles has a strong weight-age in predicting technical training when the training is short. Using the right benchmark on AMCAT modules, case studies demonstrated reduction in training failures by over 80%.

Sourcing Solutions

AMCAT IT certified candidate database together with AMCAT-IT delivered on-campus provides a complete sourcing solution for corporates. AMCAT-IT can be combined with the organization's entry level campus hiring program and deployed across the nation for on-campus assessment. Aspiring Minds has pan-India capability to conduct AMCAT IT at any campus of your choice. Please read more here.

myAMCAT.com is India's largest candidate database of certified entry level engineering job seekers. With over 400,000 AMCAT IT assessed engineers, this database can form the backbone for hiring 1000s of engineers from across the country. myAMCAT.com has candidates both from the current final year and from past years as well.

On-Campus and Off-campus

Our IT assessments can be delivered on-campus anywhere in the country. Our on-campus process is end-to-end and provides tools for managing applicant data, generating invites, conducting on-campus computer based assessments, short-listing candidates, interview tracking and issue of offer letters. This may be used for individual or pooled engineering campuses. You may read more about on-campus delivery here.

Clients can shortlist candidates from myAMCAT.com based on their scores and invite them to their on-campus events. This helps increase reach to more colleges and significantly reduce cost.

Be it a few tens of engineers or a few thousand, large and small off-campus drives can be powered by AMCAT-IT and myAMCAT.com database. Aspiring Minds can help you with your entire off-campus hiring needs by sourcing certified candidates, sourcing new candidates for assessments, finding free infrastructure, conducting assessments, managing interviews and enabling joining. Please read more about our off-campus capabilities here.

Scale and Delivery

August 2010: 22,000 engineers assessed over computers at 5 locations in 3 days! 1800 offers made!!

Aspiring Minds is working with some of the largest IT companies in the country . We have helped our clients hire 1000s of engineers in a matter of few days. Our client solutions team can build customized solutions as per the needs of the customer. With a pan India presence, we can help you with sourcing, evaluating and hiring talent from across the country.

Aspiring Minds runs very large campus programs of organizations visiting over 200 campuses in a couple of months. Our pan India delivery team ensures all events are conducted with clockwork precision.

Case Studies

Less than 27.4% of all technical graduates are employable. While 30% of the same are available in the top 300 colleges the rest are in over 4000+ colleges. Is your hiring quality consistent across hundreds of locations? Has your test been compromised? Are you missing out on good candidates, whereas hiring the wrong ones?