Vocational Trade Training and Employability Skills to Engineering Students

Vocational Trade Training to Engineering students ( Graduate/Diploma)is a part of Employability Skills set. 

Vocational training is the pathway to the multi Occupation lanes leading to Successful Growth in Industrial Sector.

Before we discuss about Vocational Trade Training, let us try to understand the current era of science and technologies.

This era is devoted to create, develop , popularize new technologies in day to day life. Computers; Electronics & Communication; Automation; supported by new innovations every other day . Basic machines will remain basic. But they will be fitted with a number of interwoven accessories. 

The society is full of several non engineering professions, some of them are listed as medical, domestic appliances, Law, journalism, political, teaching,farming, food , entertainment and lot many more. Each part of life is accessorized with sophisticated, accurate and complicated state of the art technologies. These professionals neither have knowledge and nor time to attend to them. But these non engineering professionals , students, old , handicapped and even non school going Children have become habitual to the level of addiction of using these technologies in day to day and  hour to hour life.

Vocational Training provides opportunities to begin practicing basic core profession based on hobby, education, needs of a person, society and nation and humanity as a whole.  

Now we discuss the need of vocational trade training to engineering students of different trades. We have to first understand human psychology and the God gifted computer the brain of human being.

Human psychology, a normal human is fond of using, but afraid of disassemble and maintain or trouble shoot or repair the gadgets being used by him. For this purpose they need some one who is authorized and confident of performing on the job on a particular gadget or machine or equipment.

Vocational Trade Training institutes or schools train persons on one or more than one trades to a person.

Basic minimum qualification of the vocational trainee is as per the local governments rules and laws of the land.

During vocational training, the trainees are exposed to hands on experience with relevant tools, instruments etc on the specific engineering product they are taking training.

But in actual life their work is not limited to only the product they are trained with. Vocational Training opens their gates to world of engineering products. They start practicing and understanding more and more similar products.

But let us be clear and understand that only basic core skills don’t make one a skilled trade technician or engineer or supervisor. One should have skills-set. Skills set is combination of core skills + soft skills+ communication skills+ personality.

Sudhir Chand Jain, founder Director, Institute of Employability Skills www.verdureskills.com