While we focus on ensuring an attractive track for the "techies", it is also important to realise that with the changes brought in by the digital era, the requirement of "pure" management and managers is reducing.
A recent study by Indeed.com the Indeed Popularity Index throws up some interesting insights. Nine of the top 15 most searched entry-level jobs on the portal between February and July 2018 were 'technically inclined.' Surprisingly, the top job freshers were after was the traditional role of 'junior mechanical engineer', with Junior Java Developer, CAE Engineer, Industrial Engineer, and Junior Product Designer filling in the rest of the top five spots on the Index.
Among the multiple career opportunities over the past few years (think of the emerging importance of marketing or the gig economy), technology, and engineering sectors are still leading on the job aspiration front despite the influx. Secondly, excited by the prospect of creating or being a part of the next big frontier in STEM related fields, newly minted college graduates are excited about honing their technical competence first. Even in the case of many millennial founders, the managerial role is only incidental - a consequence of the marketability and scalability of their technological ingenuity.
So, what happens to these graduates once they are five years into their job?
The short answer is that, in several service organisations (particularly in the outsourcing space), the dream run of maturing into a technical expert in the field starts to hit a plateau. Instead of building the next solution or product, they find themselves strategising for the ROI and developing blueprints for expanding the company's business - a transition that requires them to slowly disconnect from their core technical capabilities.
This story is from the February 2019 edition of Human Capital.
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