In this issue

CRITICAL TO CONCENTRATE ON FUTURE-ORIENTED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDG
Institutions must now comprehend future economic trends as well as technological changes in order
to prepare students for employment in today’s fast changing world

Critical to concentrate on future-oriented skills and knowledge

Institutions must now comprehend future economic trends as well as technological changes in order to prepare students for employment in today’s fast changing world

9 mins

SOFT AND HARD SKILLS ENSURE A SEAMLESS TRANSITION

According to Dr. Maheshwar Dwivedi, Associate Professor, School of Engineering & Technology, BMU, many innovative teaching pedagogies are being adopted like blended learning, flipped-classroom and MOOC-based learning

3 mins

SKILLING AND RESKILLING FOR THE DEEP TECH ECOSYSTEM

India has a strong edge in IT. Developing new courses in areas that are adjacent to IT such as AI, cybersecurity, blockchain, cloud, and so on would help to leverage our existing strengths

3 mins

SKILLING AND RE-SKILLING NEEDS OF RESOURCES ARE ACKNOWLEDGED SWIFTLY

Though there are no restrictions from the government on introducing 100% offline mode, the university follows a hybrid education model, says BB Kotturshettar, Head, School of Mechanical Engineering, KLE Technological University

4 mins

TECH IS MUTATING AT AN UNPRECEDENTED RATE

According to Arvind Bali, CEO, Telecom Sector Skill Council, the pandemic prompted us all to wear multiple hats to maintain business continuity.

3 mins

DEEP TECH SKILLS IMPORTANT EVEN FOR NON-TECH SECTORS LIKE MANUFACTURING AND EDUCATION

With the current staff cloud competency levels being still far away from the ideal state, organizations now understand that skilling and reskilling is essential in bridging this gap, says Amit Mehta, Head of Training and Certification, AWS

4 mins

WE NEED TO FUTURE-PROOF INDIA'S TALENT FOR THE DIGITAL WORLD

The accelerated adoption of digitisation post pandemic, and the demand for emerging technologies has increased the requirement of skilled employees. Qualities that companies consider valuable are changing along with the evolving needs of the IT industry. Sirisha Palepu, Director of People and Communities, Cisco India and SAARC, speaks about how the company is dealing with the issue of talent transformation

5 mins

SEVERAL JOBS WILL BE CREATED DUE TO DEMAND SPURRED BY NEW TECH

The pandemic, as we all know, has forever changed several aspects of the IT industry. As there has been a rise in digitisation, the demand for skilled workers is increasing as well. In this regard, Richard Lobo, executive vice president, head HR, Infosys explains about how the company and its employees are dealing with the rapidly evolving IT industry.

7 mins

THE PANDEMIC DIDN'T CREATE NEW DIGITAL TRENDS...

…It accelerated them, sometimes by a decade, argues Sanket Atal, SVP and Managing Director - Sites at Salesforce India. In a world where the ‘anywhere’ model is changing everything that worked when physical offices were the norm, and in an era where advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, blockchain and other emerging technologies are happening in ever shorter cycles – here’s how looking at, and managing, talent in a fresh way helps

4 mins

DATA SCIENCE IS A KEY REQUIREMENT

Srinivas Rao K, Director, Human Resources, SAS India weighs in the new connotations of re-skilling and up-skilling as he lets us in on how the company is steering workforce transformation from acquiring new-age skills, hiring to performance, productivity to retention

3 mins

META-SKILLS: IT'S TIME TO THINK ABOUT THEM

Sameer Bendre, Chief People Officer, Persistent Systems Ltd gives a peek into how proactivity, granularity and scalability help in matching the challenges of the new world. He also talks about the need to pay attention to deployability, employee experience and employee lifecycle. We are confronting digital transformation of not just industries but talent as well, he stresses.

4 mins

PANDEMIC SAW NEW WAYS OF WORKING AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY

As businesses realign, employees too have to identify their potential to scale. As the scope of a role is constantly changing, an employee’s potential relating to future business objectives come into question. Ritu Rakhra, Regional HR Head – India, Dell Technologies, throws light on the task of talent transformation.

2 mins

7 Higher Education IT Trends To Watch In 2022

Higher education is one of the sectors that has witnessed a radical transformation ever since the World War II. The digital revolution has ushered in newer ways of learning through online education, making it more accessible and affordable to a larger populace

5 mins

Ai a boon to the job market

Artificial Intelligence will end up expanding the job market and not the commonly held belief that it will be shrinking it, explain Saket Dandotia, Co-Founder and COO and Shyam Vyas, VP Engineering at Toch.ai

4 mins

Data Science, Cybersecurity And The Metaverse Future Of Higher Education

With a fast-growing lucrative market, it is essential to reinvent the higher education of tomorrow to shape and future proof it with advancing technologies

3 mins

India could be the global hub for cloud solutions

While cloud computing has been gaining importance from several years, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated its growth further

3 mins

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