What are the skill sets required for the Indian youth to be employable?
5 years, 6 months ago

What are the skill sets required for the Indian youth to be employable?

India Today  

Skill sets are always looked at as a means to progress and succeed in anyone's professional life; however, what is often under looked is the importance of overall-exposure in life. Skill sets are obviously very important but youths and their parents should also try to increase the life-experience exposure as much as possible; this makes them smarter, resourceful and independent to make smart choices. Skill sets at any stage in our professional life has to cascade out of current developments in our commercial/economic environment. CBSE has done a great job of compiling education+career options list, once a student decides a choice, skill sets are the tools they will be able to find with the help of area experts.

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Bridging India's Skill Gap: Addressing the Employability Challenge
5 days ago

Bridging India's Skill Gap: Addressing the Employability Challenge

The Quint  

Peoplefy works closely with Large GCCs and IT Companies for their niche talent needs. According to a 2023 report by the India Skills Report, only 48.7% of the Indian workforce is deemed employable, highlighting a massive gap between education and industry requirements. The report also emphasizes that while India's literacy rate is around 77.7%, literacy does not equate to employability. …

Upskilling India's Workforce: A Roadmap for the Future Economy
3 months ago

Upskilling India's Workforce: A Roadmap for the Future Economy

Hindustan Times  

The article highlights the need for India to invest in skill development and upskilling its workforce to address the challenges of a rapidly changing job market. The government's recent policy aims to enhance skill development for its youth through various initiatives, including the Skill India Mission and the launch of a new scheme focused on collaborative efforts between state and …

Telangana Govt focussed on skill development of youth to make them globally competitive, says CM
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana Govt focussed on skill development of youth to make them globally competitive, says CM

The Hindu  

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has asserted that his Government has focussed on skill development of youth to make them globally competitive and thereby address unemployment which is a major problem afflicting them. The Chief Minister spoke on Tuesday after laying foundation stone for setting up four Advanced Technology Centres, the new form of the Industrial Training Institutes, conceived …

Skill Census, a unique exercise to identify skills and competencies among youth in Andhra Pradesh
7 months ago

Skill Census, a unique exercise to identify skills and competencies among youth in Andhra Pradesh

The Hindu  

The Government of Andhra Pradesh will be conducting a Skill Census-2024’, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive assessment and data collection, aimed at understanding the skills and competencies of individuals and the skillsets the industries are looking for. Five objectives As a part of the exercise, a detailed survey of the existing workforce and demographic trends will be taken up to map the …

Telangana Govt actively working for setting up skill centres and universities to make youth job ready, says Industries Minister
1 year ago

Telangana Govt actively working for setting up skill centres and universities to make youth job ready, says Industries Minister

The Hindu  

Telangana Government is actively working for the establishment of skill centres and universities to impart employment skills to youth and make them job ready. The Government has accorded top priority to skill development and an action plan is being formulated in this regard, Industries and IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu said, adding that steps had been initiated to fill the …

Under India's Skill Initiative, 1.28 Crore Youth Trained, 56% Got Jobs
3 years, 6 months ago

Under India's Skill Initiative, 1.28 Crore Youth Trained, 56% Got Jobs

News 18  

Over 1.28 crore youngsters have been trained under the ambitious Skill India project of the Centre but only a little more than half of the candidates have managed to get job placements after completing their courses, government data shows. Under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana programme, which was launched on July 15, 2015, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on …

World Youth Skills Day 2020: Here's why early skilling of youth is important
4 years, 6 months ago

World Youth Skills Day 2020: Here's why early skilling of youth is important

India Today  

In December 2014, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 15th July as World Youth Skills Day with the goal of achieving better socio-economic conditions for today's youth as a means to address the challenge of unemployment and underemployment. However, despite a global focus on skills as key economic upliftment indicator, the lack of a skilled workforce remains …

‘Industry needs problem-finding capability, not just problem-solving skills’
5 years ago

‘Industry needs problem-finding capability, not just problem-solving skills’

The Hindu  

Ramkumar Ramamoorthy, the recently-anointed chairman and managing director of tech major Cognizant’s Indian arm says that quality of talent available for recruitment has actually improved in the last few years. And given that, as an industry, we do not have the skills needed at scale to capitalise on the massive opportunity unleashed by digital technologies, I work closely with educational …

By 2030, more than half of 12th-passed Indians will lack the skills to get jobs: Unicef
5 years, 2 months ago

By 2030, more than half of 12th-passed Indians will lack the skills to get jobs: Unicef

India Today  

South Asia is at a critical juncture right now. A recent press release by the Unicef lists the population percentage in each South Asian country who are on track to complete secondary education and also reach their learning benchmarks by 2030. Read: Why 33% of formally trained youth remained unemployed in 2017-18 alone: Need for skill development Special edition of …

On National Youth Day, know how India can close its massive skill gap and deal with unemployment
6 years ago

On National Youth Day, know how India can close its massive skill gap and deal with unemployment

India Today  

National Youth Day is celebrated every year in India on the birth date of Swami Vivekananda, born on January 12, 1863. "To meet the constantly changing job scenarios and to keep yourself updated, skilling has become a must for every working professional," Gupta says, adding that quality upskilling could help the Indian economy manage this skill gap. Here is why …

Indian girls have degrees but no jobs: International Day of the Girl Child 2018
6 years, 3 months ago

Indian girls have degrees but no jobs: International Day of the Girl Child 2018

India Today  

The International Day for Girl Child is observed every year on October 11. In addition to employability of a girl child what skill development provides is a much greater form of independence through a variety of rights based narratives. Organisations tend to spend extremely high amount of resources in training their staff, not in job specific areas but more so …

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