The questions I would like to put across on this forum, have been, for a long time, bothering our team and I am sure, have been a difficult ones to answer for most, if not all the professionals in our line of business.
A skilled and competent workforce has been a pain point for the industries for quite some time now. Often, we hear and read about the need of the industries to increase their focus on skill development. The Government, industry leaders, policy makers and everyone else is talking, now more than ever, about the huge mismatch in demand and supply of skills and the proactive participation required to address the same at the earliest.
There are broadly two aspects to skill development – skilling an upcoming workforce (freshers) and up-skilling the existing workforce. My questions are primarily focused around the latter:
I want to clearly understand if there is actually an issue with the quality of existing workforce and if a need exists for re-skilling or up-skilling the same. If yes, then
- What are the specific issues that would qualify as pain points pertaining to the workforce skill requirements?
- What kind of solution would an industry expect for such issues?
- Is there is a need and demand for skill-development (technical, soft or behavioral)
- Why is it so hard to reach out to the industry (HRs) to present a viable and effective solution or what is the best way to do this?
Awaiting much needed insights about the points raised in this post from the experienced people in the community.
A skilled and competent workforce has been a pain point for the industries for quite some time now. Often, we hear and read about the need of the industries to increase their focus on skill development. The Government, industry leaders, policy makers and everyone else is talking, now more than ever, about the huge mismatch in demand and supply of skills and the proactive participation required to address the same at the earliest.
There are broadly two aspects to skill development – skilling an upcoming workforce (freshers) and up-skilling the existing workforce. My questions are primarily focused around the latter:
I want to clearly understand if there is actually an issue with the quality of existing workforce and if a need exists for re-skilling or up-skilling the same. If yes, then
- What are the specific issues that would qualify as pain points pertaining to the workforce skill requirements?
- What kind of solution would an industry expect for such issues?
- Is there is a need and demand for skill-development (technical, soft or behavioral)
- Why is it so hard to reach out to the industry (HRs) to present a viable and effective solution or what is the best way to do this?
Awaiting much needed insights about the points raised in this post from the experienced people in the community.