There is tremendous demand for tech manpower these days. Previously manpower was trained in technical skills only by paid courses run by colleges and universities. These days the formal training is being supplemented by free or subsidised courses offered by Nasscom, FutureSkills Programme and AWS. A fraction of manpower may do paid courses which include hands-on lab experiences and personalised instructor training.

Manpower is aware of the need to acquire new skills — data science, cloud and full-stack. University courses are long and expensive. The manpower thus resorts to short-term free courses. It is necessary to acquire digital skills.

Amazon runs AWS training and certification in India in Amazon Internet Services. Even non-technical students who are not engineers can avail of these courses.

There are growth areas such as digital marketing data analysis, business analysis which can be exploited by non-tech persons.

In banking and finance, one can learn fraud management, business resilience, compliance and regulations. One can start by doing a Cloud Financial Management (CFM) course and then Cloud Practitioner Essentials (CPE) both offered by AWS.

There are courses such as Adobe’s UX Foundation course and Intellipat’s Web Development Foundation Course and a host of others.