On 22nd and 23rd August, At Hyderabad TCS' annual TPOs conference of prominent engineering colleges of the country was

held. The outcome is simple. As anticipated the times ahead are going to be tough and the numbers are going to come down. HR recruitment Head said he would like to meet people not just placement ready but those who are industry ready. Following are some pointers. a. Those who are good in basics of their subjects shall be -in general trainable. So they need someone trainable. b. Good programming skills c. Good communication skills.(In addition to On-line test on aptitude/Reasoning/Verbal - there is going to be another english related test that is introduced this year onwards.) d. Good GK e. Those who are attending Code Vita Mobeel/Testimony shall have added advantage. f. Must have attended NACTech test(it is hinted that test result do not matter.) g. Those who seek a job in software field- need to have taken up some or the other additional certificate course that is relating to software. Also this year their jobs are going to raise in numbers - in IT infrastructure services. Which means those who have penchant to learn Hardware/Networking/ Cloud computing and things such as data mining/big data handling - shall have some slots allocated for them. Also finally there is this Open-Seesame - practicing session- Please give them a try. More or less similar questions shall repeat in the final test of TCS. All the best.