NIIT announces NITAT 2008

NIIT Ltd has announced country's largest IT Aptitude Test - the 4th National IT Aptitude Test (NITAT) - to enable students and graduates to calibrate their potential and aptitude for a career in the booming IT Industry. 'NITAT 2008', will be simultaneously conducted by NIIT, in over 160 cities in the country, on January 20, 2008.

Flagging off NITAT 2008, nationally, Mr. C Raghavan, President-Individual Learning Business, NIIT said, "The Indian IT-BPO industry continues to be a lucrative career destination for the youth. In addition to software development, other areas such as Infrastructure Management; development for the Web, Mobile & Interactive Media space are also offering tremendous opportunities for IT career aspirants."

Gobal technology majors such as Adobe, EMC, Microsoft, Oracle arid Sun Microsystems have expressed support to NITAT 2008.. NIIT's pioneering initiative - NITAT- which has been endorsed by NASSCOM, IDC and World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand, in the first three years, has already tested over 170,000 candidate till date.

NITAT has been designed as an objective type test of reasoning, comprehension, data interpretation skills and behavioral traits. Every student undergoing the test will receive a score-card with their interpretation, along with her / his nationwide and zonal ranking. The assessment is expected to be of particular benefit to graduating engineers in deciding the careers that they should take up.