Vocational courses have catapulted into prominence in the 21st century with the boom in technology, digital learning, and market demands.
Today, more than ever, employers are on the lookout for people with hands-on experience and eager to upskill themselves. There are many short-term vocational courses that are affordable and are self-paced in terms of learning convenience. Let’s check out a few vocational courses that are trending in the 21st century:
- Advertising & Marketing:
We’re living in the age of social media wherein marketing has become quicker and smarter. With ample creative ideas and digital skills, companies and their services are able to reach a wider audience than ever before. Therefore, there’s never a dearth of opportunities for those who are skilled in advertising and marketing, especially related to digital knowledge in these areas.
- Animation, graphics and multimedia courses:
With increased streaming of digital content and incorporation of high-quality animation and VFX shots in movies, it is not surprising that people who are trained in animation, graphics, and multimedia can find themselves hired by animation studios and those in the media and entertainment sector.
- Disaster Management:
Training in disaster management involves implementing mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery measures. Through Disaster Management training, there’s scope in reducing damages, deaths, and personal suffering, protecting victims, and speeding up recovery for those subjected to unfortunate mishaps, brought on by nature or man-made.
Pre-disaster activities are more important than post-disaster response. Therefore, many NGO’s, government, local and international agencies recruit people adept at disaster management.
- Fitness & Gym operation:
In this day and age when a sedentary lifestyle has become the norm, especially in the post-COVID scenario, there is heightened desire and demand for fitness and gym training. The fitness industry creates multiple job opportunities and is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world economy.
Hence, those who are qualified as fitness trainers or have the desired knowledge to work in exercise equipment market can find ample scope in this field.
- Fashion Designing:
Those who are creatively inclined toward fashion designing can find a promising future in many areas. Some of them include the retail industry, fashion styling, textile designing, fashion houses and manufacturing units, fashion blogging and even the garment exporting industry.
- Foreign Languages:
Proficiency in a foreign language, apart from English, is increasingly looked upon as a boon by many employers. Multinational corporations, specialized government agencies, diplomatic services, embassies, journalism, tourism, and hospitality industries incorporate multilingual credentials as an attractive asset amongst their staff members.
On being a language expert, one can consider possibilities of offering services as a freelance writer, translator and interpreter as well.
There are many non-English speaking nations in Europe and the Americas, because of which mastery over French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese languages are considered an attractive option to improve bilateral relations in the economy between India and the West.
Other languages that are worth learning include Chinese Mandarin, Korean, Japanese and Russian.
With an understanding of the latest arenas that are trending in the job scenario, vocational training in the said streams would enhance opportunities for the much-unemployed youth of today.
Nazia Ali
(Volunteer)
