Even while we are talking about the increasing number of job opportunities emerging across sectors, India Inc is reeling under the pressure of severe shortage of quality talent in the job market. Here’s a look at why employability today is a far bigger challenge than unemployment
Every organisation seeks highly-skilled and industry-ready employees who could be on the job from day one. However, many a times, this search ends up futile for want of quality talent and firms end up spending considerable time and money to impart job relevant training to their employees, once they come on the company pay rolls.

Experts also suggest that such training programmes must be designed in such a way as to motivate and improve the skills of a person. It should be work centric and must be developed according to the needs of the work and the workplace. Many firms are also investing heavily on industry–academia partnerships and in-house training programmes to improve the skill-sets of employees. “The alignment between the training programmes with the competencies needs to be successful. The competencies set must be relevant not only today, but also in the future,” suggests Bansod. “What is needed to address this issue is cutting-edge, industry relevant job skills training with strong leverage of modern technology,” feels Prasad.

Experts say that employees must strive hard to enhance their employability. Enhancing the technical and soft skills is the apt way to become job relevant. Today information is available on plenty what is required is the right mindset and motivation to use the information to develop skills. “A sharp analysis of the organisation’s internal and external environment will help one to diagnose the skills required to manage and contribute in that environment. Practicing those skills till they become a part and parcel of one’s personality, is a must,” adds Bansod.

The current economy is looking for more number of skilled people who could be on-the-job and execute it well. Employers are looking for skills like ability to work in a team, good communication skills, spirit of innovation, sense of responsibility, creativity etc. All these skills could be developed by training and practice. Ensuring that one has all these relevant skills to excel in a job is the way forward.