India
ranks second in Brainbench certification
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Supports
the fact that India is the number one offshore destination in the
world
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BANGALORE:
Brainbench certification in India surged 300 percent in the past two years as
the country leads US in six skill areas, including all three Java programming
competencies
According to
Brainbench's 2005 Global Skills report, India is second to the US. Drawing on
the employment skills certifications of over 300,000 people from 179 countries,
the report said that the US, India, and Russian Federation have consistently
been the countries with the most Brainbench certifications.
This
indicates that they may represent the largest pockets of competent and available
IT resources, the report said.
“The US
accounted for the largest number of skill certifications. However,
certifications in India increased over 300 percent in the past two years and
India led the US in six skill areas, including all three Java programming
competencies.”
Global Skills
Report 2005 is Brainbench's third and most comprehensive report since the first
version was released in 2001. With more than 5.5 million registered users and
more than 600 different assessments, Brainbench measures individual skills,
abilities and personality traits that drive a company's bottom-line success.
This year,
the scope of the assessment library expanded beyond the initial IT focus to
encompass today's areas of need: call center service expertise, health care,
business management and general communication.
The 10
countries at the top of the heap in 2005 comprise 83 percent of worldwide
Brainbench certifications. Australia and Pakistan slipped out of the top 10 from
2003, replaced by the Philippines and Latvia.
The US led
the World in total Skill Certifications. The United States led in 24 out of the
30 IT categories, dominating others, in particular, in MS Excel 2002, Technical
Help Desk, MS Windows XP Desktop Administration, Computer Tech Support, and Web
Design Concepts.
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US up 11 p.c.
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Although the
media continues to report the loss of jobs overseas, particularly in the
technology sector, the most recent survey of IT job growth by Robert Half
International1 reports a net 11 percent increase in IT hiring in the US, the
largest in three years.
“In total
numbers, India finished second to the United States in 2005 Brainbench Global
Certifications - supporting the fact that they are the number one offshore
support country in the world,” the report said.
While the US
led IT certifications in 24 of 30 categories, India led the other six, including
all three categories pertaining to Java software development: Java 2
Fundamentals, Java 2, and Java Server Pages. India has been a hotbed of Java
development expertise since the turn of the century. But they also led
certifications in ASP.NET, the C programming language, and RDBMS concepts. For
each of these skills, India accounted for at least 37 percent of the world's
certifications.
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cautions India
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However, the
report does not paint a rosy future for India. India's penetration into the high
tech world has been dramatic and large-scale, the report said. For instance, Sun
Microsystems plans to double its staff in India over the next year. But, they
expect the wage advantage to gradually go away, and are increasing staff in
China, Russia, and the Czech Republic as well. This reflects forces - both
within and outside of India - that have fueled competition for India's
outsourcing dominance.
India has
initiated a new 36 percent corporate income tax on non-Indian IT firms operating
in the country. Other experts note that India's IT growth has been so rapid and
uneven that prices have risen and qualified labor availability has fallen. And
once prices go up, and the seemingly bottomless pool of labor shows limits,
things are bound to change.
Firms in Asia
have begun to directly target India's dominance as well. For example, service
providers in Pakistan are launching aggressive sales and marketing challenge in
some business sectors, and Indian firms are even building facilities in China
and the southern United States.
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Daniel Franklin,
editorial director of the Economist
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India and China have to address weaknesses in their business environment to win
more offshoring projects.
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the leading destinations for offshoring, and have the potential to win an even
bigger share of offshoring projects if they address
remaining
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environments,” said Franklin.
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News
The Top 10 Across the
World
The top 10 countries, based
on total skill certifications, are listed below, along with the 2003
rankings.
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2. India | 2. India |
3. Russian Federation | 3. Russian Federation |
4. Canada | 4. Romania |
5. UK | 5. Ukraine |
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8. Ukraine | style="mso-tab-count: 1">8. Bulgaria |
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10. Bulgaria | 10. Latvia |
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Globe
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IT job function are listed below.Â
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IT — programming and Development |
IT — Telecommunications |
IT — Web Development and Administration |
1. RDBMS Concepts |
1. C++ | 1. Cisco Network Support |
1. ASP.NET |
2. Oracle PL/SQL |
2. Java 2 Fundamentals |
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2. HTML 4.0 |
3. SQL (ANSI) Fundamentals |
3. C++ Fundamentals |
3. LAN/WAN Communications |
3. PHP 4 |
4. SQL (ANSI) |
4. C | 4. IP Routing & Switching |
4. Java Server Pages (JSP 1.2) |
5. MS SQL Server 2000 Programming |
5. C# | 5. WAN Technologies |
5. Web Design Concepts |