Pandemic has redefined the employment landscape like no other event in recent history. It has shaken up norms and with it, our understanding of skill acquisition for employment and career development. The post pandemic world requires acquisition of set century skills like digital fluency critical thinking, problem solving and self learning. It has necessitated thinking on one feet being nimble and adaptive to changing requirements at the workplace. Students must learn and master these skills not just for continued employment but also for success in building a multi faceted career. In fact aspirants must be prepared for stints that ask them to fulfil a range of different roles across the organization and even across industries. Along with skills, what is also in high demand is an application oriented approach. We must make learning application oriented. Naturally this changed approach to learning requires a fundamental shift in pedagogy. Make no mistake, knowledge of set century skills in important. But it is equally vital for aspirants to have application literacy. This granting them the ability to apply their learning to meet real world challenges. This is where set century pedagogy can prove transformational for Indian youth. In repeated independent surveys employers thought it much more important that new hires come from a pool that is comfortable facing a problem with no right answer than facing problems with one right answer. The ability to apply literacy is a crucial skill that applies to all subjects. Twenty first century pedagogy seeks to address challenges of delivering content and skills in a rich way that genuinely improves outcomes for students. The process of set century pedagogy encourages reflection among students through self and peer review. It teaches higher order thinking, develops effective communication skills, and team skills through an interdisciplinary approach and develops problem solving acumen using real world problems in the context of learning. Twenty first century pedagogy actively uses technology throughout the lear A Teachers First approach to skilling The ultimate criterion for success in delivering century skills to students is teacher training. Teachers should possess set century skills before delivering them to students. Therefore, teachers must be trained to learn and to do. There must be a structured plan by which teachers can succeed. Extensive training would need to be scheduled for teachers of various standards and disciplines so they can incorporate set century skills into their existing teaching modules. We must have experienced trainers who can train the teachers. School administrators will also have to be involved in this massive upgrade to 21 set century skills training, as they are the ones evaluating teacher performance. Importantly, teachers must not be viewed as experts, rather as learning facilitators and co learners. We stand amid the fourth industrial revolution. This giant leap of an iteration aims to build on the digital revolution and fuse technologies to blur the lines between the physical digital and biological spheres and fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and interact with one another. India will lead the world in the fourth industrial revolution by providing highly skilled manpower which is both application oriented.