Shifting Career Path: Genz, Millennials Trench Grades for Skills at Work

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. According to the Deloitte recording, 85% of this young workforce is weekly to promote their careers. Summary According to the Deloitte Global 2025 Gen Z and Millennial Survey, which was shared exclusively by the consultant firm, 94% of Gen Z’s and 97% of the millennials interviewed in India prefer to pick up relevant skills while working, and appreciate skills building and growth opportunities above the designs. India’s youngsters are increasingly prioritizing learning and pupils to grow their careers as jobs shrink, and university degrees gradually lose the relevance as a result of their outdated curricula. According to the Deloitte Global 2025 Gen Z and Millennial Survey, shared exclusively by the consultant firm, 94% of Gen Z’s and 97% of the millennials interviewed in India preferred to pick up relevant skills while working, which values ​​skills building and growth opportunities about directions and hierarchy. “Given the rapid change in technology and the related skills, businesses nowadays rent for attitude and suitability, and focus on the required skills to employees. Therefore, the academic curricula-based skills may not be the key. A candidate may be good in certain skills, but there is a need for employers to invest in employees,” said Saraswathi Kasturangan. Read also | India’s meme Marketing tree is facing legal account, as copyright battles are there, there is a time of time between a skill to become relevant and it is introduced in the formal curriculum in universities. The skills of the students are therefore often not in line with what the industry needs. She said companies could bridge this gap through learning on demand, on the work and training of these young workers before deploying it on projects. “The tendency is that they hire adaptable candidates and train them for the job role, and have equipped them with sufficient skills, rather than relying on their existing knowledge,” she added. However, some experts believe that formal higher education cannot be hampered. “In fieldworks, it experiences more than academic education, but otherwise you need educational qualification/certification/professional accreditation. As the labor market develops, although it is difficult to skip higher education infrastructure, we can expect a shift to specialized skills-based training and courses in these role-ventures,” says Upasana AgarWal, The survey included input from 809 Indian youths, of which 505 were Gen ZS and the rest was millennials. It has been found that 11% Gen ZS and 9% millennials in India actually skip formal higher education and join the workforce directly as they cannot finance their education. As for the global picture, 98% Gen ZS and 89% millennials say they prefer to train. In addition, 31% of global Gen ZS and 32% of their millennial peers have chosen to work on higher education to grow in their careers. “The young workforce has a desire to learn with flexibility and on their own conditions. This, together with financial limitations and the challenge that curriculum-based learning may not be work-relevant, are the reasons why some higher education skips directly to work directly,” Kasturirangan said. Read also | Music labels crack the whip, as influencers have detected copyright rules on social media. The survey included input from 23,482 young people from across 44 countries between October and December 2024. At the same time, 85% of this young workforce is on a weekly basis to promote their careers. “The expectation of the employees is to look at themselves constantly. It is a focus area for the businesses without being prescribed about it. They provide internal training programs, finance and work flexibility to take up courses for employees. The growth of online and distance learning programs also contributes to this trend,” Kasturirangan said. Organizations that specialize in offering training courses also ensure that their programs are relevant to the organization’s needs, she said. The findings of the recording come at a time when there is not enough work available, which limits the candidates with better skills and practical experience above those with university degrees to theoretical knowledge. Genai adoption Another significant tendency was the acceptance of generative artificial intelligence (Genai) in their daily work, with 85% respondents reporting it. In India, although 44% of millennials have already completed their education in Genai, Genzs fetches 32% respondents who have completed the task. “With the availability of Genai training programs in businesses, millennials are more exposed to them than Gen ZS who is relatively new or still joining the workplaces. Over time, the gap between the two generations will narrow their genai skills,” Kasturirangan emphasized. Read also | According to the report, the brand-Influencer Court fights set the boundaries for creators. Some use cases of Genai technology include the building strategy, customer service, training, software development, project management, data analysis, content creation and design and creativity. As Mint reported earlier, the latest season of campus rentals in institutes such as the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institutes of Management have shown that candidates who understand AI technology and are adaptable to the latest progress in it, and the assessments are designed accordingly. “The most relevant skills from a technical perspective are cyber security, cloud, data science and analysis, ioT, devops, complete software development and Genai. However, it is dynamic,” Kasturirangan highlighted. IoT, or the Internet or Things, refers to devices embedded with data exchange software. Devops refer to developmental operations, a software development approach to create a more collaborative and efficient workflow. Full stack developers work on the user interface (front) and the underlying server logic and databases (rear) of an application or website. Catch all the industry news, bank news and updates on live currency. 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