16th Feb 2012 : Mr. Shajan Samuel was the Guest Speaker at Bharat Mata College , the session was attended by  120 Participants , it was an  highly interactive session . Mr. Shajan Spoke about the Skills required in exceling in a Corporate Arena , and how important it is for each one to  move out of the Comfort Zone .He asked the Students that some point in time they would have to be geographically mobile , Please don’t let that be a forced or determined by Play of Circumstances , rather one should prepare and Plan for it , He also gave tips on resume writing , answering interview questions and clarifying doubts .

He said while attending interview one mustn’t forget to carry 2 things , one is your Smile and the other is your wits , one keeps you full clothed and the other keeps you in the game “

Mr. .Shajan also met   Fr.Dr.Varghese Kalapparambath who is the Manager cum Director of the Institute , and spoke about making the exit gate tighter for the students ,Father said that the College is giving the Students lots  Industry relevant Projects , and making a concentrated effort in getting  the Students Job ready , the College wanted to avail the opportunity of the IIJT Career Seminar , and would want their Students to benefit from the Industry experts and has asked for customizing some of our Career Seminar , He also appreciated IIJT’s effort in taking up the employability issue and wanted support from IIJT for training their students .

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/jobs/making-vocational-learning-job-relevant/articleshow/11920569.cms 

By Ashish Karamchandani, Partner, Monitor Inclusive Markets 

There has been much talk that if we can educate our youth and provide them with skills, we will be able to reap the benefits of our country's positive demographic profile. Tertiary education and vocational skills are hence seen as an end in themselves: if you provide access to these, everything else will fall into place. 

Everyone, especially the poor to whom education has been inaccessible in the past, will have job opportunities; companies will have access to skilled resources; the country as a whole will benefit from this demographic dividend. However, reality is different. Most of the numerous training institutes and NGOs impart training with little or no connection to the actual jobs in the market. As a result, the employment quotient of these individuals is very low. 

Monitor Inclusive Markets carried out a series of studies covering around 300 organisations engaged with those at the bottom of the pyramid. What we found was that most trainees could not translate their training into a livelihood. 

For instance, we came across a number of organisations training women to be tailors. Post that, they bought sewing machines and set up shop. They soon got a few 'orders' from friends and relatives but this dried up soon. More importantly, there was usually a professional tailor in the neighborhood who would be preferred over the novice. 

Therefore, the key to training is a direct link to a job. The organisations we found most successful were not the traditional ones that trained first and then helped find jobs but ones that had flipped the sequence. They had the jobs lined up and then trained individuals for these jobs. In other words - demand-led training. TeamLease is one such organisation. 

Team-Lease hires someone every five minutes, but only 5% of all its applicants are employable. To address this problem, the firm revamped the traditional vocational training curriculum to respond to the market's needs. While demandled training is a viable business model for training and placement organisations, companies that require skilled people also have the means to address this problem at their end: through their CSR divisions. 

Corporates have traditionally shied away from training people in excess of their business requirements because of the fear that once trained, people could change jobs and all the benefits of the training would then accrue to the firm's competitors. As a result, companies have waited for other organisations - training institutes, placement agencies, competitors - to provide them with skilled labour, thereby limiting their access to quality employees. 

Companies should change this view point. Most enlightened companies already spend money on CSR activities. However, these tend to be unrelated to their core business and definitely not at scale. 

Instead of doing a random planting of trees or building primary schools in the promoter's state or donating sporadically, companies can achieve greater impact if they focused their CSR efforts on training and skill development of individuals at the base of the pyramid. This would not only generate livelihoods for a large segment of India's people but also create a pool of valuable trained resources for the company to hire from. 

(With Smarinita Shetty, Associate Partner, Monitor Inclusive Markets) 

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2672997.ece

The District Employment Exchange in Mandya has been upgraded to a Human Resource Development (HRD) Centre under a public-private partnership model.

Minister for Labour B.N. Bache Gowda inaugurated the new centre which would cover registration, assessment, counselling, training, certification as well as placements, to ensure access to the job market for the youth of Mandya and surroundings places.

TeamLease Services, a staffing solutions company, in partnership with the Karnataka Vocational Training and Skills Development Corporation (KVTSDC) and the Department of Employment and Training (DET), launched the HRD Centre in Mandya.

Objective

The objective of the centre was to provide quality and result-oriented services to job-seekers with a quicker turnaround time by leveraging technology and private sector partnerships.

Help for job-seekers

The centre will ensure structured entry and exit gate assessments for job-seekers, with relevant vocational training programmes. While training will help bridge skills' gaps and make the job-seekers job-ready, the accompanying certification will ensure their credibility in the job market, a press release said.

“With strong enablement through information technology, the HRD Centre will tap into the job pool of TeamLease to ensure access to available jobs across many companies for the youth,” the release said.

Speaking after inauguration, Mr. Gowda said the employment process should be accelerated through the PPP model.

In his address, Manjunath Prasad N., DET Commissioner, reiterated the Government's commitment towards providing training in employability skills and in providing placements for the youth.

Benefiting already

Keshav Murthy, Executive Director, KVTSDC, said the HRD Centres in Mangalore and Bijapur had already given results by providing employment to several job-seekers there.

The District Employment Exchange in Mandya has been upgraded to HRD Centre under PPP model

It aims to provide quality and result-oriented services to job-seekers

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/autorickshaw-drivers-given-soft-skill-training/206170-60-122.html

KOCHI: In a novel effort to create better interactions between autorickshaw drivers and passengers, the City Traffic Police along with the Indian Institute of Job Training (IIJT) conducted a soft skill training session for auto drivers at IIJT Edappally centre on Saturday.

The programme was flagged off by Traffic Police East Assistant Commissioner Baby Vinod. At least 25 autorickshaw drivers from various parts of the city voluntarily participated in the programme.
“Autorickshaw drivers provide the first level of support for the police department. Training is one of the best ways to bring in a change. We are happy that private players are joining hands in uplifting the image of auto drivers and we would extend our help in such initiatives,” Baby Vinod said.

The programme included training the drivers on how to interact with passengers, teaching them how to build trust among passengers, especially lady passengers, and creating a bond among the auto drivers themselves.
As part of the training to create a comradeship among the autorickshaw drivers, they were asked to build bridges with newspapers, in order to teach them how important it is to first build a bridge among themselves if they wanted to create trust among their passengers.

Also, IQ tests were conducted on the drivers. After the programme, Shaheer S, an auto driver participant, said: “The experience was novel and interesting. I think all drivers who interact with passengers should be given such training in soft skills. Drivers need to be told to use their common sense on the road.”

Certificates were distributed at the end of the training session. IIJT and the police department are planning to conduct a bigger programme involving more auto drivers in the coming months.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/economy/article2653710.ece

BANGALORE, NOV 23: The Bangalore-based staffing solutions company, TeamLease, through its subsidiary Indian Institute of Job Training (IIJT) and Wadhwani Foundation, have partnered to train and recruit about 2,000 people with disabilities (PwDs) across the country.

2-YEAR INITIATIVEThe two-year initiative is a job placement campaign to enable companies to recruit and place the maximum number of young adults with disabilities.

The joint effort aiming to influence the employability quotient of the differently-abled population in the mainstream jobs of the organised sector will kick start on the World Disability Day on December 3.

The initiative is with the support of the Wadhwani Foundation through its key initiative ‘Opportunity Network for the Disabled.'

Wadhwani Foundation will fund part of the interested candidate's fees to undertake skill development training and courses across 120 IIJT centres in the country.

IIJT will impart training to PwDs on a specially designed curriculum that will help candidates to find jobs in the areas of customer relations.

ASSESSMENT TESTCandidates will also have an opportunity to assess themselves through a test which would gauge their employability quotient.

After the assessment, candidates will be counselled on planning their career to pick the right course that suits their skill sets.

Mr Ajay Kela, President and Chief Executive Officer of Wadhwani Foundation, said that India has an estimated two to three million educated differently-abled that could be a potential talent pool.

Ms Neeti Sharma, Vice-President, TeamLease, IIJT said, “Apart from training these physically-challenged candidates we are also committed in placing them through our job fairs.

“Based on the response this year we will take it up on a larger scale next year”.

The courses being offered as part of the training curriculum are basics of accounting, non-voice data processing and voice processing leading to BPO jobs and data entry operation.

In the first phase, TeamLease - IIJT plans to train 500 differently-abled youth between the age group of 18-30 in the next one year and scale it up to 2,000 in the next year.

http://educationtimes.com/educationTimes/CMSD/Newsroom/1/20111121201111211637032685ed76d09/Learning-Curve.html
Kolkata: Wadhwani Foundation and TeamLease through their subsidiary Indian Institute of Job Training (IIJT) jointly announced an initiative to train and recruit about 2000 People with Disabilities (PwDs) across the country.

The two-year initiative is an intensive advocacy and job placement campaign to enable companies to recruit and place the maximum number of young adults with disabilities. The joint effort aiming to influence the employability quotient of the differently abled population in the mainstream jobs of the organised sector will kick off on World Disability Day on December 3.

Wadhwani Foundation will fund part of the interested candidate’s fees to undertake skill development training and courses across 120 IIJT centres in the country.
 
Sharing his views on this campaign, Ajay Kela, president and CEO of Wadhwani Foundation said, “India has a very unique talent pool of an estimated two to three million educated disabled. Corporate India could derive better business value in terms of higher productivity, reduced attrition and lowered retraining costs by employing this proven and tenacious but generally ignored talent pool.”

IIJT would impart training to PwDs on a specially designed curriculum which will help the candidates to find jobs in the areas of customer handling/ relations. The course curriculum is structured in a way that the candidates are trained to match the job profiles and deliver organisation oriented output.

Candidates will also have an opportunity to assess themselves through an assessment test which would gauge their employability quotient. After the assessment test candidates would be counselled on planning their career to pick the right course suiting their skill sets.

The courses being offered as part of the training curriculum are:
1.       Basics of Accounting & Tally 9 ERP (Mod 1 to Mod 3 of CBA) leading to entry level accounting jobs
2.       Non-Voice Data Processing leading to BPO jobs
3.       Voice Processing leading to BPO jobs
4.       Data entry operators leading to data entry jobs

In this program, TeamLease-IIJT plans to train 500 physically disabled youth between the age group of 18 to 30 in the next one year and scale it up to 2000 in the next year.

Financial Express-http://www.financialexpress.com/news/wadhwani-foundation-teamlease-to-recruit-2-000-disabled-youth/876256/0

Indian Express-http://www.indianexpress.com/news/wadhwani-foundation-teamlease-to-recruit-2-000-disabled-youth/876256/

IndiaInfoline-http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/News/Wadhwani-Foundation-and-Team-Lease-IIJT-partners-to-empower-disabled-people/5288445547

MSN-http://news.in.msn.com/business/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5595071

New Delhi : Wadhwani Foundation and staffing solutions company TeamLease will jointly train and recruit about 2,000 people with disabilities across the country over the next two years.

Under the programme, which will be kick-started on World Disability Day on December 3, TeamLease and its subsidiary Indian Institute of Job Training (IIJT) will train 500 physically disabled youth in the age group of 18-30 years over one year, before scaling up the number to 2,000 in the next year.

"India has a very unique talent pool of an estimated two to three million educated disabled. Corporate India could derive better business value in terms of higher productivity, reduced attrition and lowered retraining costs by employing this proven and tenacious, but generally ignored talent pool," Wadhwani Foundation President and CEO Ajay Kela said.

Commenting on the development, TeamLease Vice-President, IIJT, Neeti Sharma said, "Apart from training these physically challenged candidates, we are also committed in placing them through our job fairs. On the basis of the response this year, we will take it up on a larger scale next year."

The course curriculum is structured in a way that the candidates are trained to match the job profiles and deliver organisation-oriented output, Wadhwani Foundation said in a release.

The Wadhwani Foundation will fund a part of the interested candidate's fees for skill development training and courses across 120 IIJT centres in the country, the statement added.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/200530/transforming-employment-exchanges-human-resource.html

N V Vijayakumar and Umesh M Avvannavar
The Karnataka Vocational Training and Skill Development Corporation Ltd (KVTSDC) is taking head on the challenge of bettering the future of the youth of Karnataka.By transforming employment exchanges into Human Resources Development (HRD) centres, KVTSDC, under the State Labour Ministry, is silently sowing the seeds of a revolution in the State’s employment market.

According to KVTSDC Executive Director, Dr Vishnukanth Chatpalli, the Government of Karnataka’s vision is to make employment exchanges relevant and reorient them to present employment needs, in order to provide value-added services to the entire employment ecosystem. “Our initiative is to find implementable solutions that would provide the state with a scalable model to increase the employability of semi-urban and rural youth of Karnataka” he told Deccan Herald.

Aided by a corpus fund of Rs 30 lakh from the State government, KVTSDC initiated the pilot project under the PPP model at Mangalore and Bijapur in 2009. Later it extended the service to other parts of the State with the help of private service providers like Laures, Team Lease and Manipal Education’s iRize. Now the total number of HRD centres has reached three at Mangalore, Bijapur and Kolar. Plans are afoot to start centres at Mandya, Chamrajnagar, Hubli, Gulbarga, Bellary and Chitradurga.

Registration and assessment 

HRD centres play a pivotal role in the registration and assessment of individual candidates who seek their help for employment. Information Technology plays an important role in these fields. According to Team Lease Vice President Neeti Sharma, assessments are an important tool to align a job seeker’s interests, motivation, capabilities and skills to the needs of a specific job. “Assessments expose the shortcomings in a candidate’s education, experience or skill profile while also identifying his training needs,” says Sharma.

The whole process is automated. Once the registration process is over at the HRD centre, the candidate takes an assessment and the results are updated in the ‘Candidate Life Cycle System’, thereby enabling matching of demand to supply. 

The HRD centres also take up the job of counseling and other skill development initiatives. 
Manipal Education CEO and MD Anand Sudarshan said “We at Manipal Education are looking forward to a long and fruitful partnership with the Karnataka Government to ensure that we provide the right jobs for the right candidate, and productive workforce for the industry.”

The existing problem in the state is not unemployment but matching capability with aspiration. The existing supply chain is fragmented and there is no one place to go for employing people. 

Here in comes the role of HRD centres. “For individual jobseekers, iRize run HRD centres will assess and match their aspirations and capabilities to job market requirement and provide them with the right jobs,” said iRize Business Head Rajesh A R. 

“Our endeavour is to enable self sustaining people who are assessed, counseled, trained, verified and certified across profiles and cities. We will link them with various stakeholders like government (employment exchanges, skill development programmes), educational institutes (vocational schools and colleges), assessment companies, training/recruitment companies and NGOs to cater to the manpower requirements of the organised and unorganised corporate sectors,” he said.