Novel outlook to analyzing a gap between industrial and institutional skills at students in the faculty of engineering and natural sciences

In today’s scenario, Information Technology industries are compromising their expectations to fulfil the requirement of fresher candidates due to non-availability of job ready students. Industry invests huge cost to train the recruited manpower and make them ready for the on-job work. In this research paper, the researcher identified engineering graduate students’ employability skill sets and validated with the support of data provided by the students’ institute. All skills were grouped into four categories on the similarity and characteristics for the research work i.e., Aptitude, Communication, Technical and Personality skills set. Primary data was collected by using pen & paper test and secondary data was collected by using questionnaires method. The analysis of collected samples was carried out by using Software Package of Social Sciences (SPSS10).  The researcher compared the expected performance by stakeholders and actual students’ performance in the designed test. Recruiters were unsatisfied on communication and technical skill sets from recruited engineering students in campus placement recruitment process. All technical institutes need to focus on employment skill sets from the first year to raise their employment possibilities