Talents come to those who search! Now this search can be one that is within or one that is outside. Why is it talent so important in this world today? ‘Talent’ is the most oft used word to describe a person with a certain capability. Children and young adults hear this word often and feel this distinguishes them from the others. Talent is one such thing that creates individualism; this individualism is the identity of a person.
Most of the time we hear people use words like ‘god given’ ‘gift’ for individuals who portray specific talents or excel in what they do. Although easy phrases to praise their achievements, but there a big tale of how they have identified and nutured their talent, and fine-tuned it to reach levels of excellence. Today we live in a more liberal society as compared to one that existed a decade ago, a society where each one is racing against time to make their mark and earn a living. Our academic institutions look to create and nurture talent for corporate houses as their acquisition of resources is from this talent pool.
The system in academics is built around recognition and competitiveness and these forces constantly create environments that warrant young minds to race and excel in academics rather than search, find, prune and grow talent. The corporate world looks at these institutions as ‘talent pools’ but sadly find a huge disconnect between the requisite talent and skills and the actuals of these young graduates. This mismatch creates a need and demand to create a ‘talent society’ to equip our young guns with the means to help them search and find talents they can build and share creating equality in professions.
At Proacademia.com we create an online support system that enables these young minds to search and find for their inner strengths with the help of a mentor. Proacademia.com facilitates meetings between academicians and professionals through ‘Edumeets’ to help understand perceptions in the education sector and the business sector, and work on matching the skills and the talents of the young minds to the needs of the industry or profession. This facilitates a level playing field for talent nurturing that would result in a talent society or a society driven by talents.