The world is a treasure trove of opportunities for those who seek it; the trick is to know the right path! This rings the truest for engineering students as the current world is rife with scope and potential for students who’ve completed engineering. The job market is eternally on the lookout for talented candidates who can assimilate into firms’ teams and enhance their productivity.
However, the competition is huge. Scores of candidates with similar profiles are applying for the same job and any recruiter is spoilt for choice. How, then, does one mark oneself different and set oneself apart from the competition? How does a student shine out and through to the recruiters? The answer lies in short term courses after engineering.
Short Term Courses after Engineering
An engineering degree would give any student a considerable foundation of technical know-how. This foundation would be crucial in whatever plans a student may have, whether it’s pursuing further education or building a career. For the latter option, however, a course after graduation would add the X-Factor in the profile of any student.
This is because firms are on the lookout for specialized candidates and a specialized, domain-specific certification in the resume would make any student a priority hire for any firm worth its salt. Taking the current market scenario and economic status quo into consideration, a certificate course in Technology Risk Management would be a prudent choice.
Technology Risk Management
Risk has been a part of business since time immemorial. It is an element, incident, or aspect that can adversely affect the company on the scale of:
- productivity,
- smooth functioning,
- profitability
- reputation, and many more.
Risk management is the thorough process of predicting, analyzing, observing, mitigating and documenting these risks to ensure that the firm continues to function unimpeded and at the highest profitability rates. Technology risk management is risk management that concerns itself with risks related to the technological sphere, such as data attacks, cybersecurity concerns, cloud issues, etc.
Indeed, technology risk management has emerged as one of the most pursued career options after B.Tech as it is relevant and prominent in current times. Students interested in the domain may consider the PG Diploma in Technology Risk Management.
PGDTRM: NU’s Latest Offering
A specialized, 1-year course, NU’s PG Diploma in Technology Risk Management is a short-term course that seeks to enhance students’ technological proficiency with special regards to the risks technology may pose to business and methodologies on overcoming those risks. The programme, curated by a mix of technology and risk experts, aims to answer the economy’s growing demand for trained technology risk professionals and capitalize on the gap between this demand and the actual supply of such professionals. The course is an upgrade to cloud computing courses with placement because it covers more areas of the domain such as:
- Business context to apply technology
- Technology Risk Management
- Overview of Cybersecurity
- Cyber Laws and Cyber Risk Frameworks
- Basics of cloud architecture and cloud security
- Data Privacy
- CISO Considerations
- Principles and Essentials of Management
The course is uniquely structured:
- 6 months of on-campus learning at the NU campus, followed by
- 6 months of hands-on industry experience.
The programme has emerged as a prominent course after engineering and would certainly enhance a student’s career.
Technology Risk Management – Why
A question that might emerge is why a student must choose such a course? Factors like placements, market conditions, cyber security course fees and the resultant ROI would be worth considering. There are many benefits provided by the programme:
- It answers the industry-agnostic demand for trained technology risk professionals.
- The course has been designed and will be delivered by trained technology professionals, academic experts and industry leaders who share decades worth of experience and wisdom in the domain.
- The course enables students to take advantage of a stunning ROI as the expected CTC ranges from ₹6 LPA to ₹10 LPA.
- The unique structure of the programme provides a practical and job-oriented approach to education.
- Potential employers for graduates of the programme are the top-most consulting firms such as the Big-4 (EY, KPMG, Deloitte, PwC), Grant Thorton, Fortis, etc.
Conclusion
Recent surveys conducted by bodies and organizations such as PwC, KPMG, McKinsey and Aon plc have concluded that technology risk is an up-and-coming domain. The topmost business executives in such companies believe that one of the most prominent risk management challenges is keeping up with the pace of technological innovations and inventions. In lieu of such an industry status quo, any student with a programme such as the PG Diploma in Technology Risk Management in their resume is bound to stand apart from the crowd of candidates.
