CRISIS IN INDIA'S JOB MARKET AND ITS SOLUTION
It was yet another day in my school.After the usual rounds of the classes,I settled down to engage in checking the mails and notifications.Soon my front desk in charge approached me with a resume' saying that a candidate has come to apply for the post of a teacher since I am always on the look out for quality teachers.
I glanced at the resume' and found that it is an interesting resume' since the candidate has completed her B Tech in Electronics and communications and worked as a software engineer and did her B Ed and Cambridge Diploma in Teaching and Learning later on.Since she had done her Bed and CDTL,she is qualified to work as a teacher.
Therefore, I called her for the interview.After all the routine questions I asked her to explain the reasons for doing an engineering first and then shift to teaching career.She openly told me that she was never a technical person and never wanted to sit in front of a system and work.In fact all she wanted was to go out and work with the people.She loved kids and always adored them.To sustain her love for Children she wanted to be a teacher and was initially inspired by her teachers.
Then,why did you choose IT profession and studied engineering.I asked.She told me that those day's IT sector was booming and her parents wanted her to be an IT engineer to maintain their family status and money.Just like any obedient girls in India,she obeyed her parents.Now in her forties,she realizes that she made a wrong career move and want to correct her mistakes.In the process how much money and resources is wasted and she was subjected to immense pressure to study a course for which she had no aptitude and interest.Majority of our graduates are taking up careers which has no connection with their college majors.
This is happening in India's education sector.Students who complete their schooling have no idea of the subjects to be chosen in their colleges nor they receive any formal counseling on subject selection and career selection.
Often they are misguided by their friends to take up the courses they study or the parents coerce them to any courses which will preserve the family name and status or for any short term gains.
It;s often said that India is a poor country with rich resources and this is mainly due to our inability to channelize our human potential in the right direction and the situation is getting worse day by day.A close examination of the various surveys and data sets reaffirm our conviction.
The only solution to this problem is to identify our youth's personality,ability,skills,interests and aptitude early on and choose a college course which is suitable to these traits so that we can save our future generation from doom
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