1. New Opportunities for School leavers
and Graduates
By
Jayadeva de Silva.M.Sc, MBIM, FIPM
In my book “humantalents Management” I introduced a new term called” IGO”
You will not find this in the dictionary yet. Many school leavers and university
graduates are seeking jobs. Concept of “Job” is fading away. Jobs may not be
available. However IGOs may be available. What are IGOs? IGO means Income
Generating Opportunities
With the demand for skilled workers in foreign countries increasing, students
who haven’t yet decided on the courses they plan to take up have the option of
enrolling for vocational courses abroad.
Let’s face it. Almost everyone with strong career aspirations wants to study
engineering, biological sciences, computer science business management at the
undergraduate and master’s level in universities abroad. These are considered
as prudent, serious and ambitious career paths that can never go wrong. With
the industries growing rapidly, there are plenty of jobs and a globalized Indian
economy has facilitated exponential employment growth for people with the
right skills.
While this sunny scenario does hold good for all students who have chosen their
subjects based on affinity core strengths and comfort level, they succeed and
progress to bright performances academic and beyond. However, there are a
few who study these subjects because they get caught up in the mad rush to
follow conventional wisdom. Because these subjects are the harbingers of a
lucrative future, they can not be ignored under any circumstances. Go with the
crowd, you won’t get lost. So they say.

2. Stand out
In this madness of following the conventional academic disciplines, many
talented students lose their dreams halfway or sooner. They realize that they are
studying subjects that are mere subjects for study. These do not stimulate them
to think. Do not excite tem to experiment and do not catalyze them to perform.
Only the vast hopeless expanse of infertile sand remains producing no
culmination of their initial dreams.
Yet, there are those who want to follow their new dreams. An increasing number
of students are opting to study in universities abroad that have create a large
niche is quite developed in institutions abroad and are therefore available in
structured programs of study. Pursuit of vocations like fashion designing, 3D
animation, multimedia applications and special effects, photographs, wildlife
conservation, environmental science , human rights, social anthropology ,
oceanography, pharmacognosy, toy designing, ergonomics, counseling
psychology, forensic science, cosmology, disaster management , nursing ,
optometry, education for children with special needs sound recording and
editing , interior architecture and design are increasing manifold and are few
examples of very promising career paths. Perhaps these are path less traveled
but are nonetheless happy paths.
This is a healthy sign. The emergence of new professional paths that fit and
match students who have no affinity for technology and other sciences is a boon
as the young minds with distinct visions of their own can now pursue their
chosen paths.
Opportunities Are plenty
Internationally opportunities in hitherto lesser known vocations are growing.
The increase in awareness has ensured that our youth are becoming aware of
the professional applications and possibilities of studying the likes of 3D
animation, human rights, psychology designing and other such interesting and
stimulating fields of work. Importantly these vocations now find a large enough
commercial audience to target their skills professionally for gain. Globalization
has created a marketplace wide enough to encompass not just technology and
information sciences but also media, environment, behavioral sciences,
education and other relatively unknown professional products and services.

3. The continued upsurge and demand for vocational degree programs like
fashion, photography, wildlife conservation, human rights, 3D animation and
many more in universities abroad in the age of a skewed bias towards study of
technology is a welcome breath of fresh air. This opens up a wide vista of
possibility for students with unconventional skill sets and ambitious that do not
adhere to the straight and narrow of traditionally approved decisions. The time
has come when all those youngsters who wanted their passions to turn into
professions are now free to do so. Any trend in this globalized world that
enables dreams to be followed to their joyful fruition to give wings to doodles
and make them butterflies is very healthy and welcome.
* Inserted by Humantalents International in view of the 10thanniversary
** To be shared among school leavers .undergraduates and job seekers