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Why today’s parents need to stop comparing their kids and learn about new career options
Excerpts from article by Praveen Parameswar, published in India Today
Leon Festinger, the proponent of Social Comparison Theory, says, “human beings do compare self (in this matter children) with others in order to reduce uncertainty in decisions as well as defining the self with clarity.”
Extending this observation to the psyche of parents, they have the noblest intention to reduce uncertainty in the life of children and define themselves with extreme clarity. A very bona fide objective.
This article is an attempt to explain why ‘comparing kids with others, especially in education and career planning, is increasingly becoming the new age poison’.
Changing career landscape
Education and career landscape is going through unprecedented changes. We need to prepare children for jobs that don’t exist today. Any decision we take for our children by comparing them with existing professionals or the current definition of success would not be appropriate for them to face various scenarios in the future
Limited Information Bias
Another major issue that occurs while comparing children with others is the possibility of Limited Information Bias, which is one of the strongest unconscious biases ever explored.
The people who we compare our child with would mostly be someone in our close circle or from popular careers. This limits our thoughts within our circle as well as to a very few range of careers.
This denies the opportunity for the child to grow beyond the borders.
Losing the spirit of uniqueness
A child reaches phenomenal success when he or she reaches the most suitable career that is in line with her uniqueness. Comparison with others and encouraging children to follow someone else actually make this possibility bleak.
People would take a herd route and reach the wrong places where they suffer badly.
Way forward
Choosing higher education and career for children by comparing them with others is an easy route for any parent. However, considering the disastrous impact this can have on children, it is important for parents to be more prepared to guide children to the right pathways and career.
As more than 74% of children turn to parents while choosing a career, parents cannot evade from this responsibility. They should learn and be ready to support children.
A very strong network with educationalists, policymakers, counsellors, coaches and teachers would also be helpful.
Career
There will be an increase in job opportunities in the IT sector for new age IT skills like AI, ML and cloud computing. (Image Source: Trak.in)
25% IT Hiring in 2021 will be for New Age Skills: Block chain, AI, Machine Learning & more
Excerpts from article by Malvika Gurung published in Trak.in
With markets reopening and economy reviving, IT businesses too have started to gain momentum, a result of which is being witnessed in the handsome wage hikes rolled out by Indian IT biggies, along with many Tier-II IT companies.
After almost 9 months of job losses and salary cuts, there is finally a silver lining.
With industries all around the globe showing such heavy reliance on technical support and cloud services, job opportunities and hiring in the IT sector is expected to rise in 2021, especially for a particular set of skills.
25% overall hike in hiring for these sectors
Han Digital, an Indian talent consulting firm has reported that due to an increase in use of tech and software services, 2021 can see an almost 25% surge in hiring of applicants in the IT sector, from just a set of skills.
These job opportunities will mainly look for new-age digital skills among applicants, which include domains of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data engineering, and robotic process automation (RPA).
Hiring in other sectors too
Han Digital has reported that the Banking, Financial services and Insurance (BFSI) sector too is looking forward to add about 15,000 employees in headcount, in 2021.
In the Business process management (BPM) sector too, the headcount will rise across creative services, insurance process, clinical research outsourcing (CRO), and finance & accounting transformation.
Naukri JobSpeak Index reports that in October alone, the IT software and services sector has pushed its hiring to 7%, as a result of a virtual and digitally enabled world.
300% increase in Cloud Learning programmes
With different sectors from all kinds of job verticals looking out for people with specific skill sets, applicants too are indulging in upskilling themselves, now more than ever.
In a recent report submitted by Jigsaw Academy, upskilling programmes like Business Analytics have witnessed over 130% rise in enrollments, during the pandemic.
“Enrollments in our cloud programme have increased two-fold and we have witnessed a whopping 300% increase in learners’ interest in other emerging technology courses. Professionals with business intelligence skills, cyber security skills, and cloud skills will find higher chances of career growth in 2021,” says Jigsaw Academy CEO Gaurav Vohra.
(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in the article mentioned above are those of the author(s). They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of ICS Career GPS or its staff.)
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