Introduction
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About Us
I.About India Skills
IndiaSkills is a joint venture between Manipal Education and City & Guild, UK. Drawing upon City & Guilds’ expertise in developing qualifications that are reflective of global industry needs, its 130 years of leadership across 30 industry sectors and 600 qualifications that have certified over 18 lakh learners every year, IndiaSkills is poised to change the dynamics of the Indian market.
Learners are provided with cutting-edge, industry-relevant certifications and job assistance. Multiple levels of qualifications are available at the entry, supervisory and managerial levels, opening up opportunities for lifelong learning and growth. While learners get a head start in their career, partner companies get easy access to trained, ‘work-ready’ staff. For the industry as a whole, this translates into a job-ready work force with ‘first day first hour’ productivity.
Manipal Education
With over six decades of experience and a global presence, Manipal Education is one of India’s foremost education service providers. With a wide reach and a large spectrum of activities, the group is functional in a number of schools, as well as university campuses in India and abroad. Manipal Education also equips youngsters with industry-relevant skills training. With its world-class curriculum and some of the finest teaching methods, Manipal Education provides a wide variety of educational opportunities. Its strength in delivering distributed education gives a significant fillip to IndiaSkills’ vision for vocational education in India.
II.Why India Skills?
Skilled people are the backbone of a growing economy
The Indian economy is growing at a fast pace. Service sectors such as retail, hospitality, banking and industries, such as auto and construction are witnessing rapid growth. This growth has spurned a huge demand for skilled manpower, right from entry to specialised levels. The National Skills Development Commission has estimated the need for about 3 crore trained manpower over the next five years.
III.CEO
Hari Menon
Hari Menon is the CEO of IndiaSkills, a joint venture between Manipal Education, a leading higher education provider in India, and City & Guilds, UK’s largest provider of work-related assessments and vocational qualifications. Set up with the aim of redefining skills training and certification delivery in India, IndiaSkills has made rapid advancements under Hari’s able and dynamic leadership.
Under his visionary leadership, IndiaSkills, has within a year of operations, forged strong relationships with over 20 leading industry players such as Reliance Retail, Shoppers Stop, Café Coffee Day, Bata and Madura Garments among others. He has been instrumental in launching industry-endorsed programmes in a range of sectors spanning retail, hospitality, Banking and Financial Services, security and hair and beauty. Over 15,000 employment mandates with these leading companies and sectors are now available to learners through 40+ IndiaSkills vocational training centres in eight states across India. This has given the company a head start in achieving its aim of being present across the 30+ industry sectors that City & Guilds represents, and reaching out to a network of over 500 VTCs spanning 50 per cent of India’s districts by 2014.
An alumnus of BITS Pilani, Hari started his career with ORG Systems, moving on to work with many of the best and most respected names in the country, including TVS Electronics, Wipro Infotech and Integrated Data Systems. Prior to taking up this role, Hari headed the Professional and Skills Education initiative of Manipal Education, which provided skill-based education and training across India in sectors like banking, retail and media and entertainment. Before his entry into the education sector, Hari co-founded Fabmall—a pioneer in internet and grocery retail—where he handled a gamut of responsibilities including strategic business planning, raising venture capital, building organizational capabilities and creating a strong IT platform for the retail business. Prior to Fabmall, Hari headed Programme Management at Planetasia.com, where he oversaw large-scale project deliveries involving a wide team of software developers, business analysts, web designers and web writers.
Hari’s wide exposure in these multi-faceted roles, and later, in Manipal Education’s training and education space has placed him in a unique position to guide IndiaSkills towards making a significant contribution to the skills development sector in India.
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Placements
I.Placement Partner
IndiaSkills is partnered with iRize to facilitate IndiaSkills learners with the right jobs, corporates with the right certified candidates, and educational institutes for training and placement of students.
The Need
Corporate India (Organised and Unorganised) requires employable/productive talent across locations & multiple job profiles.Candidates/Jobseekers are looking for right fit jobs, which matches their aspirations and capabilities.
Current Situation
We have the predominant presence of the ‘working poor’(under employed); and the low levels of productivity and high cost of hiring that employers are faced with.
Solution
iRize was set up with the objective of matching the right jobs to the right skilled candidates.
1) For individual jobseekers, iRize would scientifically assess & match their aspirations and capabilities to job market requirement and provide them with the right jobs. In the case of a mismatch, iRize would provide an opportunity to bridge the skill gap through counselling and skill enhancement.
2) For the corporates/businesshouses,iRize would provide qualified, assessed and certified workforce as an intern/apprentice/temporary/permanent staff.
3) For educational institutions, iRize will act as a holistic extension of their placement cell.
4) For the Government and community at large,iRize will support employment generation and create livelihood opportunities.
Key features
1) Candidate Profiling & Counseling through Assessments
» Effective binning by identifyingcandidate aspirations, capabilities and potential.
» Network to facilitate career/Job counseling to job seekers
2) Employment Generation for Job seekers
» The proprietaryiRize matching engine identifies Job Clusters based on candidates Interest/ abilities.
» iRizewould partner with NGO’s, Govt bodies, Educational/Training Institutes to set up Employment Exchanges (assessments, counseling, training, financing and Jobs under one roof) across 600 towns/cities in India.
3) Manpower sourcing for Corporates
» Our people supply chain wide knowledge would enable corporate to answer questions like freshers vs. experienced, trained vs. non-trained, screened vs. assessed vs. certified, nice to have vs. must have skills& behaviors, etc.
» Enables corporate with effective sourcing implementation for manpower requirements across all profiles/cities.
4) National Employment Framework & Job Certification
» National Employment Frameworkwould cover over 3000 job profiles with attributes with measurable scores tagged under Specifications, Knowledge, Behavior Abilities and Skills for each certified Success Profiles.
» All Performance management & Training programs for new/existing employees will be complemented by certification (success profile), which will have the signaling value to achieve the workforce productivity and longevity objective.
