A few weeks ago there was an ad on
television showing job misplacement; where chef is working as a barber,
cricketer as a washer man. When I saw it 1st time I started laughing,
but after a little while I found that ad very near to reality.
Just take a minute break from our hush –
hush schedule and look around, we can find so many people stuck in wrong career
profile, many of them even do not posses basic skills required for their jobs.
We can see engineers working in finance sectors, arts graduate in marketing
field and then list goes on………
It has become a common place to see
people frustrated with their jobs, feeling of incompetency for job, feeling
misplaced, depressed, stressed. And then question arise why so? Who is
responsible? Can we change it? If yes, then How?
Today’s education system in India is
majorly based on theory. When a student graduates with the degree what he or
she knows about a field is all theory (many times it is also out dated), without
practical exposure. There is lack of understanding of skills to become better professionals
and asking for professional help is not preferred by lot of families even
today.
Many times it is seen that a student
pursue education in one field but later when he/ she comes in job market to
find no jobs then he/she force to take up a job where his education and skills
are not in use.
Important question is who is responsible
for it? List is big but important components include education system,
circumstances and we ourselves. There is great a need of change required in
these to bridge the gap between education and workplace skills.
Our education system need to be more
practical oriented, with a curriculum that helps in understanding and developing
skills required for jobs. But we should not forget that we are the most
important part of this system, it is our own responsibility to become aware of
skills we need at work place and develop them. We even need to asses our
inherited traits and skills and choose suitable education and career stream, to
be able to choose jobs related to course work studied.
If we can bridge gap in workplace and education
skills then one can enjoy job and their productivity will be high. This will certainly
lead to job satisfaction.
Dr. Shreya Udare
Career Counsellor
EduGroomers Counselling
