'Tech students should hone skills'

India's largest software exporter TCS, which is in process of hiring 25,000 people from the campuses and raise it to 35,000 next financial year, feels the education institutes must pay special attention to improve communication and soft skills of their students.

"From an improvement point of view, we have been telling institutes that communications and soft skills are something that can be looked at... which will make people a bit more ready," executive vice-president and global head for human resources, Ajoy Mukherjee, said. He, however, said TCS is content with the technical skills of the freshers which it hires.