Sarvesh Agrawal, CEO and Founder, Internshala

In today's professional era which is dynamically advancing with technology and has a cut-throat competition, it has become a necessity for young professionals and job aspirants to focus on their skill sets. Along with being digitally savvy, having future skills is quintessential to complement their degrees. Internshala is a huge advocate of skill building and experiential learning through in-demand skill training and internships to enable the students in becoming career ready. In fact, a standout change over the past couple of years has been the drift of young students and professionals towards e-learning for their skilling and upskilling needs. With advancing technology and the Covid outbreak, a major chunk of students and professionals are leveraging online training which has updated content, is affordable, and easily accessible. The education industry is also making use of video conferencing apps to connect with students when not able to conduct offline classes, using digital apps like YouTube and others.

Having said that, the onus to enable skilling among today's youth lies with our educators - trainers, and teachers. The teaching community needs to be adept with rapid tech advancements and come up with innovative ways of imparting education to their students. A major factor here is technology. The advancements in this sector is truly enabling and has the potential to assist the teaching community in driving creativity in their educating process and encouraging a holistic skill development of the students.