New avenues for law related opportunities across sectors: Demand for New Age Courses
The need for intelligence infused processes to manage pandemic-driven uncertainty has created an unparalleled drive for tech focussed expertise at the workspaces. India is witnessing an exponential surge in hiring for data scientists among all digital skills. The new age courses thrust itself on a three-pronged approach like globalised, tech- focussed and digital sustainability.
The digital transformation has resulted in an increase in the number of digital professions in various sectors across IT, ITeS, Telecom, Engineering, EdTech, HealthTech, and Gaming industries, Law etc., Entrepreneurship and employability forms the gist of any successfully sustainable developed Course. New-age careers like cloud reliability engineer (specialised as Network Engineer, Security Engineer, Technical Lead, System Engineer), Technical Architect:, Lawyer with specialisation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data analysis, AI architect, malware analyst, digital transformation specialists with multidisciplinary nature has become the drivers of curiosity in the young talented minds.
These choices have been fuelled by tech courses like Data Science, DevOps, Cloud Computing, AI and Machine Learning, Cybersecurity and many others in line. On the rise are occupations requiring expertise, such as Healthcare IT specialists who will develop the functioning and operations of the telemedicine network. Computing and data security are also growing in relevance with increasing internet penetration and focus on digitisation, fostering better job opportunities and roles for individuals in this domain.
The niche emerging areas in data privacy law and Information technology Law has evoked industry demand for creation of tech focussed and enabled savvy’s to address the disputes /matters. The digital eco system for skilling is an all-pervasive goal cutting across all the existing streams of discipline. Increased rise in the use of smart phones and tracking technologies has led to the growth of occupations categorised as “high” digitalization level. These jobs require robust knowledge of computers and electronics. The interface of Law and these niche emerging areas is getting into more demand based on the industrial needs. Industry is facing huge shortage for tech focussed savvy’s coupled with legal knowledge to handle the technicalities involved.
Contractual agreements are sought after across the sectors. Legal drafting skills coupled with technical know- how of digitised work scenario adds impetus to the employers who are in the outlook for talented hands with tech knowledge. This in turn leads to emergence of demand for new courses 2023 aiming at multidisciplinary expertise like law and medicine, Law and design, law and AI, law and business etc. Hence digitisation not only provides opportunity for economic transition it is also an opportunity for industrial upgrading and for the creation of jobs. Hence there is a huge demand for a judicious mix of core domain skills and technological skills. A widening gap is created between regions of the world in terms of the digital employment landscape promoting more of international collaborations and cooperation works successfully between local context and the global market with countries who has substantive laws laid down in the nice emerging areas of data privacy and protection.
The clarion call of the Government of India through its Union Budget -2023 named as Youth Power is assuming significance in the context of globalised scenario. The youth is targeted to be trained in skills related to courses which is huge in demand for Industry 4.0 version like coding, artificial intelligence, robotics, mechatronics, Internet of Things, 3D printing, drones, and soft skills. The launch of a unified Skill India Digital platform for enabling demand-based formal skilling, linking with employers, and facilitating access to entrepreneurship schemes projects a full-fledged understanding of employability and placement demands associated with the goal of digital eco-system skilling.
(The author is Prof. (Dr.) Avinash Dadhich, Director of Manipal Law School, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Bengaluru, and the views expressed in this article are his own)
