Sushil Prashar: He is busy updating jobs, careers during pandemic

Ajay Joshi

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 5

In order to provide placement to students and unemployed persons in these challenging times, Sushil Prashar, head, department of training, entrepreneurship and placement cell of DAVIET colleges, has come up with a portal to create awareness among job aspirants.

Prashar daily posts hundreds of vacancies available in different companies across the country.

He said as per the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, unemployment rate has declined up to 6.5 per cent in January 2021 from 9.1 per cent in December 2020. Moreover, the employment rate has surged to 37.9 per cent as compared 36.9 per cent last year.

Therefore, amid declining rate of campus placements, he has started a campaign ‘Prayas, an initiative to boost employability status of Punjab’.

After launching the campaign in the last week of February, he claims to have notified over 40,000 vacancies available in several fields, including engineering, data science, digital marketing, software engineering, cyber security, web developer, pharmaceutical, business analysts and management, marketing.

Prashar said, “It’s hard to see when students don’t get jobs, despite having requisite degrees and diplomas. A large number of youngsters have been contacting me to seek information related to jobs from the last year. Hence, after surveying and analysing job trends in various industries, I took the onus to create awareness on types of jobs available and skill sets required. As a part of my campaign, I update around 10,000 plus jobs in a month. I also ask students to work on employability skills and self confidence.”

Through his updates, job seekers can also directly contact the listed companies. “Technology has been a game-changer during the pandemic with corporates showing a huge appetite for digitisation. Clearly, IT sector has been the least impacted when it comes to hiring. With more companies adopting the route of digital transformation, IT sector doubled its manpower,” said Prashar, who can be contacted on Prashar_sushil@yahoo.com.