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In the enrollment of ITH University, thousands of families are found at the confluence of decisions that will not only create an individual career but will also advance the country’s economic pace. Nevertheless, despite the annual creation of thousands of graduates, higher education in Pakistan promotes incomplete promises. Degree, once a safe future symbols, often fail to translate into meaningful jobs, personal completion or national progress.
The reason for this is clear: global landscape is rapidly shifting. Demand for expertise in digital and stability -based fields is increasing that is changing economies and societies, such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, data science, cybersonicity, nano technology, blockchain, smart manufacturing, diagonal, diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea, derivatives, diarrhea. Digital Health, Digital Health, Digital Health, Digital Health, Digital Health, Digital Health, Digital Health, Digital Health, Digital Health, Digital Health, Entrepreneurship, Re -generating economies, deep digital environment, circular economy solutions, etc. Our point of view is stable for a traditional outdated career selection, which neither meets market needs nor nurture innovation.
Today, waiting for incoming societies, combining interruptions of interrupting technology, new shares, social sciences and human center design industries are renewing the environmental system of knowledge and knowledge, and demanding graduates who are solving technical skills, critical thinking and real -world problems. And who can think overall, shield faster, and the craft solution is connected to context and creativity.
But in Pakistan, students are rarely guided to this future.
The real challenge begins after intermediate education, when students are expected to choose educational routes, but their career is left to close their eyes. The majority are not aware of emerging articles, market trends or their own abilities.
As a result, elections are often determined by family expectations or ‘safe’ professions – medicine, engineering and outdated views of the law that are becoming increasingly necessary to serve society and the country.
As a result, many students end up in wrong programs with their interests or future demands. Result? The difference between frustration, unemployment and a width. Graduates enter the manpower that are non -luxened by the international and technically complex world in which they should be countered.
Nevertheless, no profession is naturally inferior unless the market needs it. Most importantly, career decisions have to be harmonized with personal interests.
Very few students take time to read university’s prospectus or find the scope of the department’s program, curriculum, facilities or career prospects. Institutional social media pages are largely inactive, which offers very little in terms of career insights or students.
There is no made national platform, online carrier simulators, no interactive forum, and practically no advice to pre-enrolling-whether it is physical or digital. Moreover, there is no standard of admission to candidates for their eligibility and transformation journey. As a result, many students enter the degree programs without a clear understanding of what they will study or where it will be. When they get some explanation, it is often too late.
The country must move beyond the preparation of graduates graduating and instead of nurturing skilled graduates who can contribute to research and business capacity.
In this context, the career consultation is a proven educational and professional choice, yet it is largely limited to the private schools of the elite and some urban universities. What Pakistan needs immediately is the framework of a comprehensive national career consultation, which emphasizes college level admission consultation to help students inform aware, future -based educational decisions.
Here, digital platforms also play an important role, which includes qualifying diagnosis, real -time manpower market insights, AI -powered educational guidance, former students tracking and employer views on data -powered students.
Similarly, the college administration should actively invite industry and educational professionals for regular guest lectures and organize educational tours at universities and industrial places, while universities should conduct awareness drive, thought leadership sessions and colleges. Just as universities host various societies led by students, as well as dedicated career counseling clubs on campuses should be set up on campuses to facilitate peer -based guidance, manage career -oriented programs and promote informed educational and professional search culture.
Parents and teachers need to renovate their role as facilitators, not as a decision maker, but as facilitators. The career should not be inherited but personal travel aligns with one’s interest and ability, and future market ability.
In addition, a career consultation should not be one -time consultation. It should be prepared under the ongoing guidance, starting with the first semester. Progressive organizations now implement deep programs, including Summer Academies, industry expert panels, expertly constructed workshops and carrier tracks that help students find fields and related skills.
These programs offer personal patronage, market exposure and goals that combine educational routes with the aspirations of the real world. When students engage in career development from the beginning, they graduates with more degrees. They are confidently graduating to seek guidance, adaptation and meaningful, to achieve the future opportunities in the future.
Although some universities have units of consulting and career consultation units, their role is not often used. They have a significant ability to enhance their scope and impact, converting them into active hubs that offer permanent, student -based career assistance, which are associated with the development and market needs.
There is also a need to go beyond the discussion of ‘degree in skills’. These are not the competitive paths but the complementary forces. A well -made four -year degree program produces academic depth, technical ability and right attitude. Meanwhile, practical skills provide rapidly to improve the competitive market.
It would not be wrong to say that without a degree, skills are descended. And without skill, the degree is hollow. The future is related to skill -related degree programs that combine the depth of academic depths with the real world, and do not just prepare graduates to earn, but also contribute, innovation, guidance and professionally related to their career.
Trained and ready -made manpower is the backbone of any economy. For Pakistan, investing in career guidance and skill -related education is not a policy option but an essential need. A well -guided and skilled human resources increase productivity, attracts foreign investment, promotes entrepreneurship, and develops a competitive national profile in a rapidly -powered world.
Unless the career selection is based on voice photo and associated with the rapidly changing demands, Pakistan will continue to prepare for graduates who are educated but not ready for the next world. To truly use its settlement profits, the country should move beyond the preparation of graduates that graduate graduates, instead of nurturing skilled graduates who can participate in research, business capacity, and sustainable development for the construction of a prosperous, knowledge -based Pakistan.
Khalid Pervez is the head of the private sector engineering consultancy. This can be reached to Kp@kpwsconsulting.com.
Shafqat Hussain Memon is an educational and researcher who is based in Jamshoro. It can be arrived at hussanshafqat.memon@gmail.com
