The Importance of Foundation Courses in an era of Tech-Disruptions
With a plethora of online courses ranging from 2 hours to 2 months, how do you choose the right course that covers all popular topics, fundamental concepts along with hands on knowledge of most popular tools/languages?
Fact Check: India’s demand for Digital jobs is approximately 8x larger than the size of its fresh talent pool, according to a report by research firm Zinnov. By 2024, this demand is expected to become 20x the available fresh talent pool.
Many a times, Industry has remarked that our fresh graduates lack what employers of today are looking for in their potential employees. Out of the 8M graduates produced in FY 2020 in India, only 45k-50k are job ready candidates for a role in DigiTech.
Now, a reason for the gap between Demand and Supply of Digital Talent becomes evident – lack of trending technology and industry aligned curriculum in the academia. While closing that gap may be a time consuming process, another way that can foster Digital Talent is skilling in technology through foundation courses.
A blog by Vaishali Taneja Lead – Partner Engagement, nasscom FutureSkills on ‘Foundation Courses by nasscom FutureSkills – Meeting Talent Requirements of the Industry’ counsels the need to focus on making India’s youth ready to participate in the tech revolution. It also maps three effective strategies to do so:
Rolling out Technology fundamentals as a necessary first step in the digital skilling journey
Adoption of Government approved, job oriented skills framework by industry as a part of the reskilling initiatives leading to standardization
Standardization of job roles and tasks to further speed up reskilling for the ecosystem
As a first step towards building a tech ready youth, foundation courses certified by nasscom Future Skills provide the fundamental knowledge of new age technologies to learners with basic or no prior understanding of the job role. The learners can benefit from the comprehensive curriculum, which is specifically designed to make the individual understand a technology thoroughly before picking up a job role. The USP of these courses is that they have been developed with Industry work group inputs – by the Industry, for the Industry.
These courses sweep off the challenges that the Industry faces due to lack of skilled workforce as the curriculums fail to align with industry requirements. To know more about this blog, SSC nasscom Assessments and how Foundation courses work, click here.
Tech or non-tech, another challenge that many professionals face these days is that technology is taking over every possible career and sector like banking and healthcare etc., even the ones that require humans primarily like farming and education. As clear as a window pane, one can understand that the need to advance digitally is not restricted to some but is becoming increasingly significant for all in order to thrive in a world that is constantly changing – thanks to technology!
Having a level 1 understanding of technology, and digital fluency of some degree is more or less mandatory for all in this tech-driven world. Propelled by this need, nasscom’s FutureSkills PRIME is offering skill courses, professional courses and soft skills courses with nasscom SSC certification for everyone to make India’s workforce technology ready!