Skill gaps impact IT industry - The ripple effect of the lack of the right resources for the right job has directly impacted not just the company but the economy and the GDP as well. The problem statement does not just begin and end with the skill gap and its solution but in understanding what skilling is. Without this definition, understanding what it takes to live up to job expectations is not just difficult but impossible.
In India, a resource with a formal skill certification can be counted as a qualified professional. This holds good, especially for one in the IT sector. A common international explanation would be a person with a certain number of hours on a skilled job. The combination of the two - certification and experience - is a rare one and the one that the IT industry would especially value.
The increasing mismatch between job skills, educational training, and job requirement has broadened so much that
As technology advances, the need to equip the younger generation with in-demand skills, trends and technical know-how is the need of the hour. This is where byteXL comes in. Understanding the need to handle the domain of new-age knowledge, byteXL has emerged as one of the first-ever learning platforms with an in-built advanced coding editor for self-motivated education, guided training and placement support. Rather than being a just in-time training partner, they work to inculcate the learning aspects among the students early in their engineering careers.
byteXL is led by experienced technology leaders from large IT majors who know precisely what it takes to get hired by the world's leading tech companies and help students to gain competitive advantage and confidence. byteXL offers an experiential online learning platform that is a hybrid model of online learning and online self-guided learning patterns. byteXL also provides an instructor-led program in career tracks like Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Cloud, DevOps and more.
‘byteXL Career Accelerator Program’ (bCap) and ‘Expert’ programs are vital in ensuring that students learn to make smart career choices. This is the key difference between accepting what has been available and taking the first step towards claiming your dream career. Gone are the days where a student should look at their career as a compromise. With innovation and passion a critical part of a successful career, students must graduate with both elements - a certification as well as experience in the actual task. Thus both boxes are ticked, empowering students to make the right choice and ensuring a progressive career.
Skilling is the buzzword today and skill levels and education are highly related. The concept of skilling has been redefined by byteXL to empower education via innovation and modern-day technology. With a customized syllabus to suit job requirements and trending technologies, byteXL provides up-skilling courses to reduce the skill gap and increase the employability quotient. With their goal being supported by byteXL, students can choose their careers by choice and not by chance.