Career Advice: What is the reason many engineering students can't get jobs in India?

1. Outdated learning – learning fundamentals is one thing, but 
   learning ancient programming languages such as FORTRAN, and not
   being in touch with the industry could be one valid reason why engineering
   students are not relevant to today’s industry.
   
2. Theory vs Practice – The present education system involves a
   chasm between theory and practice. Very less of what is studied at
   college can be put into practice in real life.
   
3. Exam culture – Learning is a continuous process, and exams are
    a method to measure the level of your learning. Unfortunately, the CGPA or grade of a graduate is the first filter for job, and thus, students keep their focus  only on exams and not on learning the subject properly. This comes out as weak fundamentals, and hence, industry irrelevance.
   
4. Lack of exposure – Given that the end target of technical
   education is getting a placement in a company, the amount of exposure provided to students about the industry is also very little. An early exposure to industry can give students a quick though about what is relevant in the industry, which they can learn in their own time.
   
5. Bad career matching – Over the years, awesome
   opportunities that a professional life in the technical industry has
   provided, made engineering sciences the de-facto choice for graduate
    studies. Even if or not the student has the aptitude for the stream is
   not taken into account,coming out as an uninterested engineering
   candidates, who have not taken to their subjects as much as they should
   have, making them irrelevant to the industry