Last Mile Training – The Missing Part in Higher Education

A decade ago, you would’ve heard, IT giants investing in training college freshers for a significant period (3-6 months) before deploying them on specific projects and modules of client deliverables. Today, this trend has almost faded away. Employers are ready to pay a premium for talent with industry-ready-skills rather than invest in training them.So who is supposed to train the college talent to become industry-hire-ready? Higher education institutes?India has massive youth potential being wasted. We have a large number of people seeking jobs and a large number of unfilled jobs also, this is the conundrum that we need to solve.The existing University curriculum cannot solve this. For instance, they’re teaching C++ as the coding language, which is outdated in the industry. Traditionally, the best salespeople mastered the art of communication. Today, the sales process is multichannel and tool-based (Salesforce). It is critical for the talent pool to go through the last mile training to reach the final destination.