Let’s Simplify: Universalizing Learning, Talent Sourcing & Development
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The agile nature of technology has had a most momentous impact on the way we work. Companies are struggling to get skilled talent whereas potential employees are struggling to figure out courses and certifications that land them their desired jobs. What would help both is creation of standardised hiring and assessment criteria.
NASSCOM FutureSkills webinar ‘Let’s Simplify: Universalizing Learning, Talent Sourcing & Development’ focused on the gaps between talent sourcing and highlighted how competency standards could help make talent sourcing, development & assessment easier for employers. PB Kotur, GM and Global Head Fresher Engagement Programs Wipro, cited the widening gap between fast changing pace of technology and the unchanged syllabi as a big challenge for the industry. Wipro’s fresher training program, he said has a learner centric approach that focuses on root learning as opposed to rote learning to make fresh talent job ready from Day One.
Echoing similar sentiments, Jagdish Mitra, Chief Strategy office & Head of growth Tech Mahindra referencing a recent US based survey remarked, what academia is teaching did not align with what industry needed. He added that it was time India shifts from a degree focused culture to a skill focused culture as a skilled person with practical knowledge is more productive than one with just theoretical knowledge. He also highlighted TechMahindra’s initiatives for reskilling and training employees and freshers’ through ‘New age delivery’ platform and NASSCOM’s FutureSkills platform. Collaboration with FutureSkills was also highlighted by Anil Santhapuri, Director-L&D APAC, CGI who mentioned how using competency standards was core to CGI’s reskilling strategy.
Mani Subramanian, Category and Analytics Big Basket, highlighted the importance of professional skills such as Problem solving and Communication which are as critical as technical skills in today’s times for the success of an organisation. He pointed out that degree focused academic institutions lacked the ability to make course corrections swiftly and update the latest cutting-edge technologies in the syllabi which led to the chasm between industry and academia.
UpGrad has an interesting concept of reverse engineered curriculum, in which 70% of the curriculum is designed by industry experts with up-to-date case studies that keeps the course curriculum relevant and specific to industry needs. Ronnie Screwvala, Chairman & Co-founder UpGrad emphasized that emerging online learning platforms can be the push towards knowledge-based learning versus degree-based learning.
The un-bridged gap between what the industry demands and what the academia provides is a huge challenge before the ecosystem of hiring and education. Learners find it hard to figure out which certifications are relevant for their career trajectory while ideally, they should be spending their resources on learning what their employers need. The alignment between industry and academia requires intervention in the form of competency standards that provide a framework for academic institutions to design their course curriculum to better conform to industry hiring needs & standards and define what the industry wants its workforce to know and learn to be job ready from Day One.
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