How important is up skilling for students and Freshers!!

Currently many students are being prepared for job roles that no longer exist, and many of them don’t have the right skills for the job they want. In today’s world Skills gap are prevalent and with such situation College degree cannot keep pace with how fast things are changing in the workforce.

In order to stay successful and secure in the workforce and have a secured future in career now each working professional as well as students are aware that they need to be constantly learning. But what they choose to learn is also very important. Up skilling is not limited to mid or senior level professionals, nowadays freshers as well as college students are taking online courses to help them gain knowledge and get themselves ready for their dream job!

Also, Early career professionals who have just started with their career need to build the right skills so that they don’t waste time working in domains that may soon become outdated and sooner or later won’t exist.

Training academies like Financial Planning Academy (FPA) have courses for students like CFP (Certified Financial Planner) which can be completed in as less 6 days, and post that people can opt for a highly paid job in wealth management sector or even open their own practice. Similarly they offer courses like PGCBF (Post Graduate Certificate in Banking and Finance) which is almost guarantees a job in the banking sector, those too operational jobs. Then there’s also ACCA (Association Chartered Certified Accountant) which is an international accounting qualification which provides a much quicker access to jobs in every sector ranging from Manufacturing to Banking with career opportunities varying from Statutory Audits to Fund Management. Post a careful study of gap analysis of the curriculum at the university and industry requirement, these online programs were developed to inculcate practical and industry demanded skills in students.

Most of these courses have online videos, reading content and assessment leading to an eventual certification post completion of exams.These courses are available at a very economical cost for students as well as working professional from the Commerce, Science, Arts, Management, Engineering & IT streams. Up skilling and re skilling play a very important role in career building may, it be a student or a working professional, it has become a social norm! Hence it has become very important for a working professional to upgrade themselves in terms of their data knowledge and thankfully with the help of FPA, one can use online education platforms to get to their to dream jobs sooner.

Nowadays employers want a degree as well as candidates with practical knowledge and skills. So these full time or part time up skilling courses make a huge deal in one’s career. It is in times like today, the professionals and students cannot just sit back and rely on their college degrees, they need to ensure that they have the knowledge of current trends and technologies. Unless they pick up courses like CFP, ACCA, etc. they will lose opportunities that are waiting to be grabbed by the skilled professionals.