Don’t confuse Movement with progress.
Some people spend a-lot of days, weeks and months to harness their new skills. It will help them to learn from basic to amateur level only, but when it comes to application / testing in professional level it will be way beyond. Why this happens to many people ??
Every fresh graduates aspiring for a new career find deep trouble for finding a perfect career. This due to lack of finding their skill or even lack of it. We must spend some quality time for finding our skills that developed during schooling & college period. After this we have to examine each of this to find whether its best to us. By this evaluation process, we can find the hurdles in-front of us.
In a recent article from financial express, 70% of Indian youth are not aware of government-run skill development programs. Though the Indian government is aiming to skill 40 crore people by 2022 though its ‘Skill India‘ program. We must use these kind of resources to upgrade ourselves and remember opportunity never knocks always.
A McKinsey report had flagged the issue more than a decade ago when it said just a quarter of engineers in India were actually employable. CP Gurnani, CEO & MD of Tech Mahindra, has said that 94% of engineering graduated were not fit for hiring. “The top 10 IT companies take only 6% of the engineering graduates. What happens to the remaining 94%?”
The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills. Everything will become obsolete over time. “- Peter Drucker
In this internet based world, we have many options to rate up these individual skills to a professional level. Websites for online-course are available with free / paid options. We can customize our options and spend time from home to learn and capitalize time and money.
Before doing all this, I recommend to keep a self journal for tracking movement with progress. We should have goals and must apply discipline with consistency. You have to work hard and plan every day to achieve this.
Remember this 7 tips from my side:
- Learning is an Art
- Stop believing in inborn Talent
- Practice efficiently
- Be curious
- Aquire a new mind set
- Learn from failure
Many online courses are available in the internet world to help people to certified in new & upgraded skills. Here I am mentioned some :
I will post more details of the websites and articles related to skills and ways to gain it.
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— Sanam Bp
Career Mantra 