Ep6: Anuj Kacker on New Age Careers
Anuj Kacker has been in the business of building New Age Careers. For the last 16 years he has worked with Aptech (@aptechltd) - a company synonymous with building skills in the youth across 40 countries. They focus on building skills in sectors that are growing at 15%-20%; there is a large pool of candidates 100,000 per annum and the business has global scalability. That is just what Aptech has done.
New Age Careers
Anuj is a Member of the board of Aptech and has taken Aptech training beyond IT (software, hardware and network) which they are synonymous with in India. Their company Arena Animation provides training in a fast growing sector - Animation and Multimedia. They also run Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC) that provides training in Animation and VFx - an integral part of the world of movies and superheroes.Talking of movies, here is film director R Balki talk about working with creative people and teamwork[audio mp3="https://abhijitbhaduri.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/How-to-work-with-others.mp3"][/audio]Aptech Aviation provides training for cabin crews and in airport management, hospitality, travel and tourism and spoken English. Lakme Academy (@LakmeAcademy) provides training for the Beauty Industry.Listen to @anuj_kackertalk about building a career in fields like #animation#graphics#video etc on the No 1 business podcast Dreamers & Unicorns by @peoplestrong as part of the #newcodeofwork series. So lets dive into the show/ Listen to Anuj introduce himself.[audio mp3="https://abhijitbhaduri.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Hi-I-am-Anuj-Kacker.mp3"][/audio]
How do talent pools get shaped?
Many parents still go for conventional career choices like Engineering, Medicine, Law etc. These fields are crowded and the supply of talent exceeds the demand. Take Engineering for example. There are 16,00,000 seats in Engineering colleges in India and barely 800,000 of these get filled. Of these 800,000 students who graduate from Engineering colleges, 60% do not get employed and 20% do not get the right jobs. The average fees paid across 4 years of Engineering education is Rs 10,00,000 but the average starting salary is barely Rs260,000 per year. To repay a student loan at that salary level takes 3-4 years. The new age careers lie in fields like animation, cinematics, aviation etc
3 Core Skills in New Age Careers
Creativity
Communication
Collaboration
[audio mp3="https://abhijitbhaduri.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Engg-Fee-vs-Salary.mp3"][/audio]In this conversation with Anuj Kacker, here are some key areas to listen for
Automation is inevitable. People have to rethink career strategies. Start thinking about new age career options like animation, network engineering, banking etc
New age careers will celebrate creativity, communication and collaboration
It is hard to scale up education in many of these skills because educational institutions insist on a Masters degree before they can teach an undergraduate class. Many of these courses did not exist when these professors were doing their Masters degrees.
I have summarized the key ideas in a sketchnote given at the end of this post.What makes Dreamers & Unicorns the No 1 podcast? It is the fabulous guests who have shared their ideas and experiences so liberally
Listen to Pankaj Bansal speak about entrepreneurship <click here>
Listen to Anita and Harsha Bhogle speak about lessons from sports <click here>
Listen to Renuka Ramnath talk about Finance as a Career <click here>
Listen to Joshua Karthik talk about How to Succeed as a Gig Worker <click here>======
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