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Skills Required in the Digital Age<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0The digital world is progressively penetrating the learning and skills domain. Technology is being widely used to provide learning, knowledge, and skills in novel and innovative ways. With the increased usage of rapidly changing digital technologies and knowhow in the workplace, there is an advent of new skills that are required to contribute to our digitally allied society. Currently jobseekers need specialized skills that will give them visibility in the crowd.<\/p>\n

It is a persistent endeavor of the best universities and B\u00a0Schools to meet this rising demand for digital know-how and other significant skills required. On 2 May 2020, Prime Minister Narender Modi in a meeting emphasized the use of technology and digital age skills in the education sector to enhance the experience of learning. Working on his belief and idea, IILM offers the key skills vital in a digital age embedded in its portfolio to meet students\u2019 and industry needs.<\/p>\n

Knowledge includes two intensely interweaved yet diverse components \u2013 content and skills. Content comprises ideas, facts, evidence principles, and explanations of processes or techniques. Instructors at IILM are well proficient in content and ensure a profound knowledge of the subjects in the areas they are teaching. Proficiency in skills development is another significant domain. Trainers help students develop these skills keeping in consideration that these intellectual skills match the requirements of industry, knowledge-based personnel. Therefore, at IILM adequate emphasis is given to skills development within the course curriculum. The skills needed in a digital age comprise the following:<\/p>\n

Communication Skills<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n

Along with the\u00a0customary communication skills of reading, writing, and speaking articulately and clearly, spoken business communication skills are ever more important. Spoken business communication is at the core of specialized business management and thus, at IILM, it is contained within the curriculum. It is contributory to achieving positive results, as it allows numerous ways to send a message to others. It comprises understanding and training of employability skills relevant to the industry and students, the capability to put forth via the\u00a0internet to a wide-ranging community of individuals with one\u2019s ideas, to share\u00a0information correctly, to receive and integrate feedback, and to recognize trends. Business communication is prevalent, and all processes are channelized through communication, via a consistent flow of information.<\/p>\n

Social Media<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n

Using social media\u00a0communication is an indispensable skill for a digital age. Social media marketing goes further than a Facebook or Instagram update or posting a tweet; it is about understanding the vigorous relationship amongst influencers, consumers, and brands. Educators, who are familiar with social media\u2019s influence, also understand the complexities of each platform and its possible influence to make the most of community engagement to provide students with valued and relevant skills.<\/p>\n

Data Analytics:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Analytics predominantly\u00a0let students take educated, informed, and data-driven decisions in their life choices and roles. Numbers state whether a campaign was effective and by what proportion. The fundamental to analytics is finding out what data to collect\u00a0<\/em>and how to measure to have a more effective next campaign. Hence, at IILM, data\u00a0<\/em>analytics as a complete course is embedded in the curriculum to make student’s industry-ready.<\/p>\n

Thinking Skills:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Of\u00a0all the skills required to be effective in a digital economy; problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, originality are some of the most significant. Businesses focus on the creation of new products, new processes, and new services to maintain low costs and upsurge competitiveness. Though universities in specific have always gratified themselves in teaching such knowledgeable skills and information transmission, yet it challenges this conjecture particularly at the undergraduate level. It is not only in the upper management positions that these skills are vital, people in specific trade profiles increasingly ought to be problem solvers rather than ensuing standard processes, which tend to turn into automated.<\/p>\n

Knowledge Management<\/strong><\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is another important\u00a0skill. Knowledge is no doubt one of the organization\u2019s utmost valuable assets and is swiftly changing with fresh research, new developments, innovation, and rapid\u00a0dissemination of thoughts, ideas, and practices on the internet. In tandem\u00a0sources of information are growing, along with a lot of inconsistency in the reliability or validity of the information. The main skill in a knowledge-based era is knowledge management that defines how to find, collect, evaluate, examine, apply, and disseminate data, within a specific context. The ability\u00a0and skill to access the right knowledge at the right time, through a strong\u00a0knowledge management system, appraises accurate decision-making, and encourages collaboration and innovation. Knowledge management platforms are planned with best in class\u00a0features as to\u00a0capture the information needed, validate and organize and make it convenient to retrieve and share. Thus, it becomes the most in-demand skill that graduates will always need to employ even long after graduation throughout their life.<\/p>\n

Strategy and Planning<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Companies that set in\u00a0strategic planning in their decision making and marketing outline are most likely to achieve measurable results and succeed in the long-term. Rather than\u00a0planning and designing on an ad-hoc basis, executives and digital marketers must create and implement campaigns and drives based on analytics and quantifiable data. It is also imperious that they examine past campaigns and choose which metric is giving better results. To put things in view, strategy and planning is an important skills gap in organizations. And so, IILM develops skills in strategic planning and executing a digital strategy, graduates pursuing new roles certainly have an edge over their peers with slight or no knowledge.<\/p>\n

Teamwork and Adaptability<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The significance of\u00a0teamwork is not only limited to the workplace but in every sphere of life. Teamwork and adaptability are vital to managing the everyday changing\u00a0environment. In specific, knowledge personnel ought to know how to work in accord and collaboratively, virtually and at a distant space, with coworkers, clients, and associates. The sharing of collective knowledge, problem-solving, execution, and efficient implementation need good teamwork and adaptability for accomplishing tasks or solving problems that may be outside the purview of a thin job definition but indispensable for success.<\/p>\n

Ethics and Responsibility<\/strong><\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a set of standards\u00a0or codes of conduct, professional ethics comprises relationships with and responsibilities towards clients, employees, coworkers, vendors, suppliers, all stakeholders. This is essential to build faith and trust, most significant in informal social networks, however, because normally it is upright and great businesses worldwide where there are diverse players, and a higher degree of reliance and confidence in others are required to realize one\u2019s own goals.<\/p>\n

The crucial point here is that content and skills are\u00a0firmly related and hence at IILM, much consideration is given to content acquisition as well as skills development embedded in the course itself to ensure that learners graduate with the required knowledge and skills to be effective in a digital age.<\/p>\n

\n

Dr. Rachna Madaan
\n<\/strong>Assistant Professor, IILM University
\nGurugram, Haryana.<\/p>\n

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