New Skills For Future Jobs: The employment scenario in India is changing rapidly and this has been going on for the last few decades. It is expected that by 2022, 37% of the people working in India will be those whose work will require significantly changed skills. The result is a growing acceptance of the need to be understood.

Sunil Dahiya, Executive Vice President, Wadhwani Opportunity at Wadhwani Foundation, talks about all the special things related to Kaushal. In which sectors are there going to be employment opportunities on a large scale? What skills are needed in the new age? How can productivity increase? This includes all the questions-

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More than 50% of the country’s population is below 25 years of age. Therefore, Industry 4.0 requires a skilled, well-trained workforce resulting in timely focus on skill development.

Until recently, only 10% of Indian workers had received formal skills training, and according to Aspiring Minds, “only 26% of engineers are employable, and our students are not ready for the next decade.”
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To promote vocational training and skill development
Times are changing and there is a new emphasis on promoting vocational training and skill development in collaboration with different stakeholders. For example, the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana has been set up to streamline skill development initiatives.

This is the reason why many vocational and skill development companies are actively engaged in providing necessary skill training. This campaign is also gaining momentum from the scheme of the Government of India. Under this, 400 million Indians are to be trained through the National Skill Development Mission by 2022.

Skills required for development
The companies involved in skill development work are tailoring the training to their needs and trying their level best to bridge the skill gap. And for this it is developing a skilled and certified working class.

Skill providing institutions are providing relevant and job-critical or useful skills. Since the existing infrastructure of ITIs (Industrial Training Institutes), ITCs (Industrial Training Centres) and other government aided institutions is not sufficient to train people as per the future employment prospects, there is access to digital platforms and learners. The doors of such institutions are also open for this. In this way the industry will get technology savvy people giving high productivity from day one.
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lack of structure
India will need a lot of professional training centers to train lakhs of deserving students in the country. The existing infrastructure is not sufficient to meet the growing requirements. Government tie-up with industry will be required not only for skill up-gradation but also to ensure skill development in the right areas and it will be as per the requirement of the industry. This would require a large number of people who would be able to arrange the training programs and train the people.

Headlines

• Key factors such as technology, e-commerce and telecommunications are influencing all industries to redefine their strategy of change for their products and services.
• The advent of digital technology is forcing the industry to make a digital transition
• This applies to almost all areas. These include Technology, BFSI, Healthcare, Retail, Transportation, Hospitality, Tourism, Beauty, Textile, Aviation etc., and will open up a huge need for talent and new skills.
• New digital courses and new employment opportunities are also opening in the skill development sector.

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two types of skills
The report ‘Future of Jobs Report 2018’ prepared by the World Economic Forum suggests that generic skills will no longer be of much use. Instead, two types of skill sets will emerge: first, those with highly developed technical capabilities (Machine Learning, Big Data Robotics etc.) and second, those with ‘human’ skills (sales and marketing, training and development, organizational development, etc.).

Learning skills necessary for the future
This clearly shows that half of the skills needed to be successful in the future are cognitive, with the remaining 50% focused on human connection and collaboration at work.
It is imperative that the development of new age skills as per the demands of the economy and industry is integrated into the formal education system right from the school level. At the same time, more concrete and immediate action is needed at each step to address the challenges inherent to skill building outside the formal education system.

Peter Drucker captures this most aptly when he says that, “the only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill to learn a new skill. Everything else will become obsolete over time.”