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Nasscom for entrance test for BPO jobs
By agencies
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Friday, 18 March 2005, 20:30 IST
BANGALORE:If the software body Nasscom has its way, aspirants for call center jobs will have to take up All India common entrance test similar to entry test for most professional courses.
NASSCOM President Kiran Karnik said that the software industry body is working on an all India entrance test model for job aspirants in the booming BPO industry which will enable candidates from north eastern states or Bihar get a fair chance of a career in cities like Bangalore and Hyderabad.
"The idea is to evolve a IIT-JEE model of having a common entrance test for the entire country and aspirants from the north east or Bihar are also given a fair chance. Now most of the recruitment is largely limited to IT centres," he said.
Indias BPO industry growing at 50 per cent annually currently employs over 2.5 lakh people and has exports of USD 5.1 billion.
NASSCOM has evolved the test model based on experiments by Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala in their BPO Skills Assessment Test (BEST), which has helped BPO firms in those states get candidates.
Karnik said the proposed All India test by NASSCOM might put the tests conducted by these three states redundant.
Noida, near New Delhi, is the largest BPO hub in the country followed by Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.