Acquire skills while in the home during pandemic
Technological adaptability, skills on new technologies and a good attitude ought to be the key focus areas for preparation for the work market in the post-pandemic era, said several human resource management officials yesterday.
The recruiting process changes for the pandemic because employers oftentimes will carry it out online, said Fahim Mashroor, co-founder and ceo of bdjobs.com.
But the employers will have to ensure that productivity will not fall, neither for online recruitment nor for working from home.
"It really is challenging, so re-orientation is needed," he said in a session of the Youth Skills Summit 2020, jointly organised by The Daily Star in association with SBK Tech Ventures marking World Youth Skills Day.
Thanks to the adoption of digitalisation running a business processes, employees must have the abilities and adaptability to advanced technology, so training is necessary, Mashroor added.
During the session, titled "Finding your way through a post-pandemic job market", Zulfiqar Hussain, CEO of Grow and Excel, said several formal sector employers announced layoffs through the pandemic.
However, some are needs to hire people predicated on new technological skills, he said, adding that the pandemic expedited automation in the formal sector where some unnecessary fat had been cut down.
While some job cuts are happening, the pandemic taught an excellent lesson on adaptability to technology, which is a step forward towards the fourth industrial revolution, Hussain said.
"So, there is absolutely no option to gaining skills," he added.
Recruiting departments realised very deeply in this pandemic how important it had been to supply moral support and offer training on technology on working at home, said Md Faisal Imtiaz Khan, chief recruiting officer of Rabi Axiata.
Here is the right time for students, who have considerable time in their hands, to get ready for the job market by adapting to new technologies, he said.
The new technologies could be blockchain, coding and artificial intelligence, whichever they appear fit, he said. "Please adopt skills whichever new technology it could possibly be on," he added.
It was not simple to make people adjust to new technologies to ensure that they could work from your home, said Maher Sabbagh, persons and culture director of Japan Tobacco International.
The pandemic has increased technological adaptation by 4 or 5 years because every employee is motivated as a result of pandemic plus they realise it's important, he said.
"The right attitude is very important to adaptation in virtually any situation or any new technology, so I put focus on it plus a cultural attitude in order that he or she can cope up with the brand new world," he added.
People have to continue with their learning, which is necessary for dealing with the post-pandemic job market requirements, said Ghulam Sumdany Don, chief inspirational officer of Don Sumdany Facilitation and Consultancy, while moderating the session. He advised students to activate in extracurricular activities, maintain networking with persons and be problem solvers.
