Jaffna students meet IT and BPO industry

Computer science undergraduate students from the Jaffna University at Eurocentre DDC.

Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies SLASSCOM organized a two day industrial visit for the computer science undergraduate students from the Jaffna University. SLASSCOM facilitated this industry awareness visit for the second consecutive year as part of their capacity building initiative to bring Jaffna students to mainstream IT and BPO industry.

The students visited IFS, Virtusa, Euro Centre, eCollege, Cinergix Research and Sabre Technologies during their stay in Colombo. The main objective of this tour was to provide students with the opportunity to meet IT industry professionals and engage in a knowledge sharing session while getting an orientation to the available career options within the industry.

Twenty students including two senior lecturers were able to witness the working environments of the companies visited. They were also guided in CV reviews, interview preparation, and career selection during the sessions. This initiative comes under the SLASSCOM Capacity Forum with its primary focus on initiatives to expand the Sri Lankan IT and BPO talent pool to be globally competitive.

All SLASSCOM's capacity building initiatives are geared towards driving Sri Lanka to reach the national goal of becoming the #1 industry to lead Sri Lanka to the knowledge economy while achieving the target of US$1 billion in revenue and employment to over 100,000 by 2015. "We were delighted to facilitate an industry awareness visit for the computer science students of the Jaffna University for the second consecutive year. We have many programmes lined up to help these students and introduce them to the opportunities available within the IT and BPO industry. In addition, we will be facilitating a two day workshop in Jaffna next month for the first and second year undergraduate students in the computer science degree programme" said SLASSCOM Executive Director Nihara Nanayakkara.