The Corporate and Academic worlds not being in sync is a long standing challenge. Most companies face a situation where they need workforce on cutting edge technology, but the talent coming in from academic institutes is not enabled for it. The other face of this coin asks, why would the academia invest in enabling talent for a new technology unless it is widely adapted in the industry? This is an industrial vicious circle.
NSDC (National Skill Development Corporation) of India tries to break the deadlock by specifying the performance (roles and responsibilities) an individual must achieve when carrying out a function in the workplace, together with the knowledge and understanding they need to meet a standard consistently (training curriculum). These standards, put together and validated by Industry Experts, then becomes a National Occupational Standard (NOS) which may be freely used by any corporate or academic entity as a benchmark.
I was recently part of a workgroup that defined IT Job Standards for India, conducted by Zinnov in collaboration with NASSCOM.
The results are available for public use here: https://nsdcindia.org/nos-listing/24
In particular, I helped to develop the job standards for Web and Mobile Development, together with their training curriculum. Links below:
Job Standards and Model Curriculum for Project Manager
Job Standards and Model Curriculum for Application Architect
Job Standards and Model Curriculum for Application Developer
Job Standards and Model Curriculum for UX Designer
Thanks @Priya Madhavan and @Divya Gupta for the opportunity.
Photo of our workgroup below is from a meeting that happened just before the Covid era, so please excuse the (lack of) social distancing! 😁
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| Industry Validation Workgroup |
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