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The 360000 number does not refer to the number of employees Cisco wishes to
hire!
360000 is the number of networking industry professionals that Cisco will, work
with partners like IIHT and NIIT, to train and develop in India.
Cisco Talent-Development Strategy for India
IIHT and NIIT Become Cisco Certified Learning Solutions Partners
Furthering its goals to enhance the development of information technology
talent in India, Cisco announced a series of country-specific initiatives aimed
at expanding India’s capacity to train, employ and retain highly qualified
networking and systems engineers. By establishing partnerships and opening
testing facilities, Cisco aims to expand India’s networking workforce capacity
to 360,000 engineers in the next five years, a six fold increase over present
employment levels.
According to a recent IDC report on global skills, India’s surging economic
development will create a demand for 137,000 more networking professionals by
2009. As an integral part of the training-development initiative, Cisco
announced that two of India’s largest technologies training organizations, IIHT
and NIIT, have become Cisco Certified Learning Solutions Partners. With this
designation, both IIHT and NIIT join Global Knowledge and Training Partner
Ltd., a business unit of Datacraft India, in offering the complete range of
authorized Cisco training materials and certifications to students and
professionals in more than 200 locations throughout the country.
“Globalization will continue to transform India’s economy and will require its
young workforce to develop skills that are market-driven,” said Leo Scrivner,
vice president of human resources for Cisco Services & Globalisation Centre
East. “The launch of our talent-development initiative in India underscores
Cisco’s commitment to expand access to the IT training and certification
resources that will support the country’s continued economic growth. With these
initiatives in place, we are able to ensure that our customers and partners
have the resources available to train and equip the thousands of motivated
students in India with the knowledge and skills necessary to shape the
country’s burgeoning information economy.”
In concert with these new partnerships, Cisco is also announcing a major push
toward increasing access to its examination facilities through its primary
test-delivery partner, Pearson VUE. The company is committed to adding 150
testing facilities that meet these new requirements across India by the end of
the year. To further close the digital divide, Pearson VUE will also deploy
several mobile testing centers to increase access to technology in rural and
underserved areas. Pearson VUE recently announced that it is requiring its test
centers to adopt increased security measures in order to safeguard the value of
IT certifications.
“With competition growing for the number of skilled personnel available in the
market, companies are aggressively seeking to hire and retain knowledgeable
staff,” said Keshava Raju, CEO, IIHT Ltd. “IIHT has an impeccable track record
of conducting training in networking and IT infrastructure for the last 15
years, and we are excited to be working with Cisco to expand opportunity and
access to quality training to help address India’s national skills shortage.”
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