No One Needs Your Degree! 💥
On Skilling | Some Insights 💜
In a faculty get-together held this week in the Anderson Hall, our Principal Dr. P. Wilson highlighted on the importance of Value-Added Courses to a student’s degree programme.
Faculty were given an introduction to a slew of such value-added courses that would augment and enhance the weightage of a student’s degree programme.
Hence, me thought of putting up a quick post that would highlight the importance of such skilling in one’s College life!
Well, as we all know, thousands of jobs remain vacant across all the key sectors in India.
And the skills gap is expanding at alarming proportions, with no easy solutions in sight!
By the way, what pray, is the skills gap?
Skills gap is the difference between an employee’s actual skills that they have on offer, and the skills that the employer requires of them, for a particular role!
So what is the reason for this skills gap?
One of the main reasons for the skills gap is that, youngsters today have a degree on them, but do not possess the required skills to add value to their degree.
Employers are not able to find workers with the right set of skills.
The job market indeed is on the watch out for degree holders with specialized certifications and skills!
The key take-away here is that,
The job market today is not dependent on a person’s college-degree alone!
I repeat…
The job market today is not dependent on a person’s college-degree alone!
A well-educated person is not necessarily a well-skilled person!
In a Study Abroad Seminar that we had organized this last semester in Martin Hall Auditorium, in which more than 230 students had participated, the Resource Person Mr. Anand Manohar, a veteran in the field of Overseas Education, observed that,
Our students find it a prestige to work part-time when they study in Universities abroad! However, back home in India, they are highly embarrassed to work part-time!
He then exhorted students to take up some part-time work at least on one single day during the weekends, to gain part-time work exposure, which would be an added upskilling reference for their higher studies abroad.
You may want to read that past post HERE on our blog.
How true! Many students enroll themselves for their UG/PG Degree Programme, without having a clear-cut road map towards their future!
That’s one reason why a few of them end up being disillusioned after their Degree Programme, with no light at the end of the tunnel!
In fact, just by going to college for a degree programme is by no means a passport to a successful future for a student!
You should have this point clearly etched in your mind!
Remember! Your degree is just a bridge or a step towards your career goals and aspirations.
College isn’t Career!
Degree isn’t Destination!
Successful completion of a Degree Programme alone isn’t an achievement in itself.
What really matters is to cultivate and to nurture a skill-set that will complement your degree programme.
Simply put – your Degree is like your passport, and your skills are your visa – visa that gives you the needed validation for you to ‘fly’ high! 😊
The reason many students are not able to get the right job that’s on par with their degree is also because of the simple fact that, they couldn’t make optimum use of their spare time to develop and to hone their professional skills/career-oriented skills during their precious academic life!
So yes! What then is the solution?
One effective solution is to have clearly defined career-goals for oneself!
A purpose-driven education alone results in a passion-driven professional!
To sum it up –
College isn’t career.
Degree isn’t destination.
Well-educated doesn’t mean well-skilled!
It would do well to remember that, you are in college with a great purpose!
College is the place where you can develop a clear-cut Career-Development Road Map for yourself!
So yup!
Try charting out your Career-Development Road Map, for yourself, rightaway!
What then is a Career-Development Road Map?
A Career-Development Road Map is a list of your goals – both long term goals and short-term goals, that you as a student intend to set for yourself in your current duty, role and responsibility as a student that helps orient you towards your dream career path ahead!
It could also be a visual representation of your goals that you strategise and outline for yourself in your diary / year-planner [academic year planner] where you clearly chalk out your immediate, pressing, urgent commitments at hand, and how you plan to achieve them.
Make sure that your Career-Development Road Map integrates with your Academic Life in College.
In case you need guidance, please feel free to approach any of your mentors / professors! They’d sure help you draft out your Career-Development Road Map!
So yes! Let’s sum up this post with the awe-inspiring words of Swami Vivekananda -
‘…Stop not till the goal is reached!!!’
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