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Gearing up engineers for the global employability pursuit
We are all aware of this perplexing, wave which is driving the global professional scenario towards a multifarious warfare arena. The saddest part now which today’s youth faces is that all the players are not actually equipped with the ammunition of skills, equitable, comparable, or even commensurably parallel in proximity. The result is horrendous, bewildering, crisscross, display of ammunition, unworthy of any determinative accomplishments. Satisfaction is improbable, unimaginable, and impossible for entities on both the sides of the table. India is a country with one of the largest tertiary age population. Under such circumstances, where the country has a huge youth power, which can be used to convert the economy of the country into a booming one. Yet we are at such a juncture there is a huge gap in the skill sets offered by job contenders and that expected by employers. The result of which is the rise of professionally qualified yet unemployed youth. Extensive research and brainstorming on a massive scale is being carried out at all levels, both by the government and non-government organizations, to decide the requisite parameters, a well-defined paradigm and obviously means to precisely define the set of employability skills. What exactly are these employability skills and how they are to be developed and implemented is the most pertinent question? Can a curriculum be accurately designed for employability skills? In bits and pieces through the information is disseminated, nevertheless, the “what” and “how” of the concept is still far from the general comprehension of the majority of today’s youth looking out to be employed. This paper discusses what these employability skills are, how they affect the employability status of today’s youth. Especially from the point of view of engineers, it’s important how best skills can be integrated with their academic regime, to improve the employability status. The imperative task lays ahead and questions are like how best to gear up the education system to meet the growing demand of the industry. We still have a long way to go, but one thing is certain a robust partnership between the industry and the universities, – the two crucial stakeholders, to chalk our strategies foreseeing the future only, can lead us to the destination we are all dreaming of!
Published by: Dr. Mousumi Bhattacharjee James
Author: Dr. Mousumi Bhattacharjee James
Paper ID: V4I3-1683
Paper Status: published
Published: June 11, 2018
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