Reskilling For Women
- Posted In : 2021-Mar-23
Worried about achieving your dreams after a break?
How often do we see these advertisements is the proof that many women desire to work and restart their career after a break. Albeit, the market is working to make it flexible, which can encourage those women to make progress in their desired field. But joining after a break puts breakers in the journey. When women prepare to enter their domain they have to gulp all the skills that are useful as well as demanding in the market and use it in a unique way to make their work shine.
The term ‘reskilling’ is a vital word in the dictionary of the market, more importance is attached when you are reentering your expertise. Why?
Coping up with changes
With an ever-changing world, requires adapting to changing behaviors, attitudes, commitments. To say in crisp ‘we have to chameleon around’ to fit in the upskilling milieu. According to studies, by 2022, at least 54% of all employees worldwide will need significantly reskilling and upskilling.
The biggest strength and weakness of this era is things are becoming easy and difficult at the same time. It is easy to learn via online sources that are affordable too, and difficult because of rising day-to-day changes, to adapt new and discard the old ones.
For women, it is another level of difficulty that they go through to get on work after the break-in their career. Why are women taking breaks higher in number? That goes beneath the radar, as women's jobs are at more risk than men, the back story is different, there are old learning patterns, that halts the progress. IMF projects that 11% of jobs currently held by women are at risk of elimination as a higher percentage than for jobs held by men.
Irrespective of what goes on, changes are happening, and coping with them and preparing yourself for the next stage is the key.
Initiatives from the corporates to settle the upheaval
Corporates should look forward to branding the present female employees and encouraging them to take up roles that have less percentage of female involvement. Helping women employees by presenting them with adequate tools and courses which would add perks to their persisting skill set and therefore elevating their career.
A proposal for a fixed number of employees necessary in a domain should be considered as this will boost participation leading to fostering skills, as this will inspire women to learn more. It is not that women are not capable but the participation is low, which by such initiatives could grow at an unprecedented rate if implemented.
Just 22% of AI professionals and 12% of machine learning experts are women, according to the World Economic Forum.
Reskilling or upskilling should not be looked through the lens of fear or disruption in the work milieu rather it should be looked through the lens of ease and cooperation.
The cooperation of everybody, not just the women will lead to the development of the world at large. The most effective way to ensure the presence of women and polishing their skills is via leadership roles, this would change the ‘today’s Dilemma’ once for all.
The future of work will require two types of changes across the workforce: upskilling, in which staff gain new skills to help in their current roles, and reskilling, in which staff need the capabilities to take on different or entirely new roles.
“What you were taught 10-20 years ago is fast becoming obsolete. Upskill yourself and recreate your world” - Nicky Verd
Author : Jasmine Gahlot
A realistic, ardent reader and a girl who is an enthusiastic political learner
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