Reskilling a challenge – Covid -19

Dr. Priya Kalyanasundaram, HOD, SIMS

          During this pandemic reskilling is one of the major criteria for the business to get ready for their future. It is a challenge for both Hr and business to stand among the competitors. This covid -19 has made everyone mandatory for reskilling for the transformation. The perception of reskilling has changed from a valuable opportunity to an essential need of an organization.

The future work priorities of HR will be redesigning the organization structure, predicting the job automation impacts, restructuring the roles and responsibilities, , investing in future force learning, bridging the skill gap etc. Understanding the current situation the hr has to concentrate on upskilling and reskilling as this is the perfect time period for enhancing the skills of the employees. There are number of courses available online for skill updating. In order to meet these challenges organization has to develop employee’s cognitive capabilities, emotional skills, adaptability skills etc.

Moreover this crisis has reduced physical interaction and has started following the methods of digitalization for example health care sector, banks, educational sectors etc. In case of shopping the buying pattern has been changed to online shopping buying patterns. Currently the skills which are in demand are Digital marketing, data visualization etc. This crisis is moving sourcing and production closer to end users i.e. the companies may move production closer to the sale, whereas some companies may relocate their activities to other countries. This reskilling is a major challenge for all the organization across the world