When the talk of automation and artificial intelligence impacting hundreds of thousands of jobs in manufacturing and services sector comes up in any forum, there is always one incorrigible optimist in the room who will point to the auto sector and even the computer industry, where new innovations destroyed existing manual jobs but created multiple more new ones. New models of skilling will provide both jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities to inspire recipients to capture the jobs or entrepreneurial opportunities they seek and provide them the agency to stay on and improve on their skills on the job, says Ganesh Natarajan.
New models of skilling are being adopted in the country by social enterprises, as well as not-for-profit organizations like Global Talent Track, Quest, Pune City Connect and NES Connect. They have demonstrated the power of deploying digital technologies at various stages of the livelihood creation cycle. This will provide both jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities to inspire skills recipients to capture the jobs or entrepreneurial opportunities they seek and provide them the recruitment agency to stay on and improve on their skills on the job.
The ‘Skill identity profiles’ for youth, by treating student’s personal context as the focal point for end to end vocational training and livelihood creation, is one of the critical areas where Digital India can truly enable Skills India and Start-Up India. The profiles will form the basis for building an online community of skill seekers who can then be mapped to appropriate skilling options. Hosting all the skilling and placement opportunities, available in a locality, on the platform will enable the youth to visualize careers and competencies required.
Utilizing artificial intelligence to map the students to skills would be a significant improvement over existing system of random allocation, especially for semi-formal grey collar jobs. An integrated Chabot that understands the student’s learning difficulties will reduce dependency on human intervention and make perfect matches happen between job or entrepreneurial opportunity providers and seekers.
The battle between man and machines goes back centuries. Are they taking our jobs? Or are they merely easing our workload?
A study by economists at the consultancy Deloitte seeks to shed new light on the relationship between jobs and the rise of technology by trawling through census data for England and Wales going back to 1871.
Their conclusion is unremittingly cheerful: rather than destroying jobs, technology has been a “great job-creating machine”. Findings by Deloitte such as a fourfold rise in bar staff since the 1950s or a surge in the number of hairdressers this century suggest to the authors that technology has increased spending power, therefore creating new demand and new jobs.
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