Unlocking the Economic Growth amid Technological transition: An Analysis of Hybrid Skills Acquisition among Professionals in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Abstract

 Over the next decade, technological transition will build or kill millions of workers. Many workers have become hybrids; merging skills set that were never previously associated with each other, such as statistical analysis and marketing, or architecture and programming. Specific abilities serve as hybridizing powers, allowing them to spread through various positions. This research also concentrates on the effects of such changes on the demands by the employers. The objectives of the research included to investigate in the hybrid skills set-soft and hard skills, which are the most demanded skills now a days in Peshawar region; to analyze the level of economic benefits attainted upon acquiring the hybrid skills to the teaching faculty professionals. As the present research is conducted to know the effects of technology on the teaching professional only so purposive sampling was used. As the research is of descriptive nature the Cronbach’s Alpha and One-way ANOVA were employed to the data. After the analysis, it was obvious that technology has impacted the education sector and that the soft skills from the hybrid skills set have become equally important long side the traditional i.e. hard skills. Furthermore, there is difference in the monetary benefits attainted by the teaching professionals in private and public universities in Peshawar, Khyber PakhtunKhwa. The current study enables people to comprehend the kinds of hybrid skills that are prevalent in Peshawar and that job seekers need to acquire in order to find employment, as well as enabling those who are already employed to continue in their existing roles. The current study may contribute to closing the knowledge gap between what academic institutions teach and produce and the capabilities that industry will require in the future. This study contributes to the knowledge on hybrid skills set needed to stay employed or get hired by the teaching professionals in public and private universities of Peshawar, Khyber PakhtunKhwa. Hybrid necessitate different strategies for educators and businesspeople, as well as any other discipline. There is ample research in this field in UK, USA and India. This study contributes to the research literature on the technology driven hybrids skills set by the teaching professionals in universities of Peshawar, Khyber PakhtunKhwa. 
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