REINVENTING NEW EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS IN THE POST COVID 19 WORKING ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

COVID scenario has created a topsy-turvy situation in the whole world, specifically, the employer’s mindset and working culture in the industries are in a whirlpool. We live in a VUCA world where the term denotes Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. New situations and new catastrophes create new horizons and new opportunities in the job industries. Industries have to redesign new jobs and provide new opportunities to face the paradigm shifts in the job market. The paper aims at exploring the new skills that are arising out of the new normal situation of the VUCA environment. Uncertainty and complex situations have forced the job market to make employees work from home situation. This pandemic period has necessitated the need for reinventing and redesigning new normal and new mode of working conditions. Digital skills and online work forms have become the new game of today. It is imperative for the business to ebb and flow with the changing tides of technology, industry and the global environment. The paper focuses on rediscovering and redesigning the new employability skills that are much significant to face the new norms and new waves of the VUCA world.