Reskilling the Knowledge Workers in It Sector – Need of The Hour

Abstract

 Reskilling and online certification are the biggest earners in the Indian online education market, spent $93 million in 2016 and expected growth of $463 million in 2021.This is dominated by IT professionals with almost 5 lakhs paid users in 2016, mentioned by a report. The people who upgrade their skills tend to grow consistently. Jatin Migiani, (co-founder of Ethan) said that global multinationals reskills their employees, while Indian companies are tepid in recent times. Only Small and medium sized companies are keen in training their employees as they cannot hire people frequently. But IT sector hire people as per requirement so they show less interest in training the existing employees. Automation and AI puts jobs at risk, companies just looks in for profit from technology investment. With some basic tasks removed from human work force, employees should be trained and reskilled to focus on innovative value-driving activities. Reskilling IT workforce is the need of the hour.