Surya Kant, President, North America, UK & Europe at Tata Consultancy Services, sat for an interview with the Diplomatic Courier at "Talent Mobility & the Future of Jobs: The World in 2050".
[Diplomatic Courier:] If you could put forth one idea to help address youth unemployment, what would it be?
[Surya Kant:] There is a structural imbalance in my view. The structural imbalance is the skills which are needed are in short supply. Computer science provides you with higher wages, higher salaries—but there are not enough people in computer science. At the same time, other areas do not have that much demand. My one idea would be to retrain people. For example, one of the things that they could be retrained in is by asking people how do you code? How do you use algorithms? That would help them create software and get into the use of the technology in the area in which they have been educated. If they are coming out of, for example, humanities, how does technology apply to humanities? If they are coming out economics, how does technology help in economics. So my one idea would be to retrain the people in the area of computer science and information technology.
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Surya Kant of Tata Consultancy Services: Addressing Youth Unemployment
April 14, 2014
Surya Kant, President, North America, UK & Europe at Tata Consultancy Services, sat for an interview with the Diplomatic Courier at "Talent Mobility & the Future of Jobs: The World in 2050".
[Diplomatic Courier:] If you could put forth one idea to help address youth unemployment, what would it be?
[Surya Kant:] There is a structural imbalance in my view. The structural imbalance is the skills which are needed are in short supply. Computer science provides you with higher wages, higher salaries—but there are not enough people in computer science. At the same time, other areas do not have that much demand. My one idea would be to retrain people. For example, one of the things that they could be retrained in is by asking people how do you code? How do you use algorithms? That would help them create software and get into the use of the technology in the area in which they have been educated. If they are coming out of, for example, humanities, how does technology apply to humanities? If they are coming out economics, how does technology help in economics. So my one idea would be to retrain the people in the area of computer science and information technology.
