Technical skills: A path to progress for nations.
By: Muhammad Adil Rehman
Tags: Dae, Technical, Industrial, Unemployment, Skills

I am enthusiastic to write about the experience that I had with myself and it was about thoughtful the problem or gap I would want to work on as my Mega Project. In this blog, I will briefly confer my problem statement, How I refined it and how was the experience. Let’s start…

Problem Statement:

“To develop a platform for inculcating the crucial soft-skills and provide practical awareness to the DAE students that will help them to cope the challenges of industrial environment.”

Typical DAE pass out

Reason behind selection:

In Pakistan, every year thousands of youngsters are passing DAE (Technical Diploma) from technical institutes and only a few of them succeeded to get good jobs, the others must suffer with poisons of unemployment and rejection from the industries. This is because, the DAE curriculum and labs are not synchronized with industrial needs, like industries use softwares for designing, modelling, analyzing, and stimulating the products but DAE pass outs do not know, how to run them?

This technical and software training will provide them a better vision of things and pull out the fear of new things and give encourage to break the barriers. A technical person with updated skills has more attraction towards the recruiting bodies and will progress rapidly with respect to their fellows, also can perform much better in the development of Pakistan.

Making the sense, Now what!

Let’s take an example of a self-aware, career-oriented and technical candidate, what benefit can we get from them?

Let’s count a few:

1) He will be able to perform better in workplace and add more value.

2) The chances of his promotion will be high, because his learning and working energy will be available for longer time.

3) He will get more pay and will give their family a better life.

4) He will encourage others to grasp technical knowledge and apply to the betterment of society and Pakistan.

Considering myself as example, after DAE (Mechanical) I done technical training about CNC machining from Infinity School of Engineering and by learnt a lot of things which were absent in the three-year diploma and I got selected in multiple industries at first try. The only reason for not going to job is I got admission in UET Lahore to persue my education, but that training also helped me understanding and tackling the difficulties in the university and for now I am about 10 times better version of myself as compared to when I passed my DAE.

I also want to put an example of Japan that was badly destroyed after WW-II, but they focused on their technical skills and work hard, causing the Japan is one of most powerful economy of the world without atomic bomb.

China is now becoming the new super-power on the base of the technical skills of the chinese. And there are many other countries developed on the basis of technical skills.

Final Remarks:

In the final concluding, I want Pakistan to be Quaid’s Pakistan, for that it is very crucial that we put our efforts to learn technical, updated and in-demand skills rather than stuck with outdated knowledge and wasting time to cram the books.

Let’s level the grounds for all the students by properly guiding them.