What Millennials Need To Know

What are the career aspirations of the young workforce and what skills do they want? A few measures the industry can look at implementing to meet their interests.

PREPARING FOR AN AUTOMATED UNIVERSE

If the Indian education system has to prepare its students and young work force to meet the demands and expectations of an increasingly advanced technological world, then it has to be very robust and integrate technology within the system. The first step that needs to be taken is to educate people differently, so they’re prepared to work alongside automated machines or do the jobs that machines cannot. We need to perceive technology as an extension to human brains. We don’t know how quickly machines will displace people’s jobs, or how many they’ll take, but we know it’s happening and it’s happening across portfolios. Schools need to teach traits that machines can easily replicate such as creativity, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, adaptability and collaboration. The government will have to work on a strategy for skill development—it has already initiated the first step to combat this issue by launching Skill India, which aims to train over 40 crore people in India in different skills by 2022. However, the answers lie in the implementation and execution of this initiative.

A UNIVERSE WITH ZERO JOB GROWTH