Is AI enough for a job at GCC? Companies now train freshers for real-world experience
Despite being able to work with AI more fluently than others, as per a LinkedIn study, the developing mindset of the freshers is now becoming a pain point for GCCs, all of whom are trying to find ways to temper expectations and help them understand the end-to-end needs of the engineering and software assembly lines.
«My biggest struggle with this generation is that they talk only about AI and ML. Just out of college, they do not understand that in a sector like banking, AI cannot be deployed just like that, that banks are bound by lots of regulations,» Srikanth Gopalakrishnan, CIO for people and head of the India technology centre, Deutsche Bank Group, said to ToI.
'Work at GCCs not college science experiment'
To deal with continued hindrance, the banks are now providing two projects to the trainees over one year, after which they can choose a permanent project. As a result of this exercise, Gopalakrishnan said that many of them look for projects based on the exposure they get and not just the technology.
The activity trains the freshers to understand what the work will entail for them in intital years. «When they come out of college, they have a mindset that work is always about writing code from scratch,» he added.
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