CareerLabs-SkillAssure to Place 10,000 Graduate Engineers Across Leading Tech Companies

CareerLabs (CL), a leading EdTech company, and SkillAssure (SA), a division of Pratian Learning & Consulting, will facilitate over 10,000 engineering graduates and students with the opportunity to land a high-paying tech job at Fortune 500 companies, global IT juggernauts, and fast-growing startups. 

The partnership programme, over the next 3 months, will fulfil the exigent hiring requirements of 1,200+ positions at Zensar, Eurofins, Valgenesis, Bristlecone, InfoVision, Tech Mahindra, 1Pharmacy, Ernst and Young, ATMECS, Tata ELXSI, Virtusa among other renowned industry players. CL and SA’s partnership programme will provide students with industry-relevant technical training and prepare them for their foray into the IT-sphere. Candidates can choose from over 36 job roles in the IT industry, ranging from High-Code Engineering to No-Code Engineering.

Earlier last month, AICTE partnered with Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) with an aim to provide students (UG and PG) with internship opportunities and build entrepreneurial skills, with KVIC paying a monthly stipend upto Rs.5000. 

The programme developed by CareerLabs in collaboration with SkillAssure will be available to those candidates who clear a preliminary screening based on industry-recommended parameters. These selected candidates start with an LOI or a conditional offer letter from selected organisations before the training. Candidates will undergo 160 to 300 hours of skill-based training before appearing for final interviews, following which they can be immediately deployed into various projects with minimal hand-holding. This enables employers to save a significant amount of time and money. The average salary of a trainee hired through this programme will be INR 4-4.5 LPA, but top students will have access to jobs in the higher range of INR 6-9 LPA.

Over the last decade, SkillAssure has successfully placed over 50,000 engineers across its globally recognised partner organisations through its upskilling programmes. CareerLabs, another frontrunner in the upskilling niche, has built a talent pool of 1.5 lakh engineering students and has been empowering them with relevant job opportunities in renowned IT companies. With CareerLabs’ and SkillAssure’s track record of transforming thousands of recently graduated engineers into project-ready professionals, this pilot collaboration promises to open up a multitude of avenues for learning and upskilling in the students’ pursuit for professional success.

“CL and SA’s collaborative endeavour aims to equip young engineers with in-demand digital skills and provide them with access to top employers within the Indian IT landscape. This partnership will offer training as well as on-campus and off-campus placement opportunities for engineers, subsequent to equipping candidates with in-demand technical skills,” says SkillAssure spokesperson, Subramanian S, CEO, Pratian.

“We are excited to collaborate with SkillAssure in identifying and moulding top talent for our industry partners. At the heart of this CL-SA synergetic ecosystem is the Talent Acceleration Model that identifies where the student’s talents and interests lie. It then recommends the skill sets that should be cultivated to maximise their chances of landing their dream job at leading tech companies, and provides training for achieving the same. One of the greatest challenges in creating an industry-ready workforce is mapping the right talent to the right job role, and this collaboration aims to tackle this challenge head-on,” says P.N. Santosh, CEO and Founder of CareerLabs.

Trainees, via an exclusive Digital Platform, can access resources on Structured Learning, Collaborative Learning, Mock Interviews, Presentation Sessions, Assessments, ‘Mentor Connect’, Virtual Instructor Sessions, DevOps Engineering, Live Projects, as well as sessions conducted by industry experts. Behavioural and professional competencies including communication skills, interpersonal skills, etc., are critical to the growth of a student into a professional, and will also be nurtured within the CL-SA ecosystem.

One of the key highlights of the programme is that outstanding interview-ready performers will be given an opportunity to land client interviews within just 4 weeks of skilling. Once they receive an offer from a company, the selected candidates will continue their training on Advanced Project Competencies in order to achieve the milestone of Deployment Readiness, which is a crucial need in the IT industry today. Trainees will also be entitled to an agreed-upon stipend or salary amount during the second phase of their training with the CL-SA programme.

Details of the programme can be found here.

Edtech Firm CareerLabs and Tech Mahindra Tie Up to Transform Over 3000 Graduates Into Skilled Professionals

Leading EdTech company CareerLabs and Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services and solutions have signed an MOU to transform over 3,000 graduates into skilled professionals, armed with industry-relevant skills and the technical know-how to succeed in the highly competitive world of technology. Students will undergo intensive upskilling courses on specific skill tracks prescribed by Tech Mahindra, such as Full Stack Development, and find the opportunity to be mentored by renowned industry experts. 

Upon successful completion of the training, students get an opportunity to be placed at Tech Mahindra in roles across different verticals.

Vaishali Phatak, Head - Technical Learning Services & Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I), Tech Mahindra, said, “With massive digital transformation across all the sectors, there is a huge demand for highly skilled workforce which is driving the disruption in education and skilling. Nurturing the youth with relevant technical and leadership skills is one of the key focus areas for academia and industry.

Through this collaboration with CareerLabs, we aim to empower students with industry-relevant skills and the technology know-how through intensive upskilling courses and adept mentoring. This will help them identify and pursue their career aspirations at a speed of their preference, while also giving them tools to work with renewed passion and succeed in the highly competitive world, in the new normal."

The program is slated to make its debut in the current repertoire of industry-relevant educational offerings provided by CareerLabs. It is meticulously designed not only with the vision of equipping the next generation of tech talent with employability skills relevant to the industry but also to remediate the dearth of job-ready IT professionals in the industry. Over the course of the training program, CareerLabs plans to empower youth with industry relevant skills to usher in a wave of change in the IT industry through training and recruitment.

As compared to the previous year, 2021 has witnessed a pandemic-driven 200% surge in IT hiring in India. While there are thousands of fresh graduates looking for a job in the tech industry, only a fraction of them are industry-ready. CareerLabs in understanding with Tech Mahindra aims to fill the gap between the ever-growing pool of newly graduated students who aspire to foray into the IT industry, and the growing demand for job-ready professionals who are well acquainted with the erratic industry trends.

From getting students ready for the IT world to providing Tech Mahindra with skilled resources equipped to deal with the constantly changing industry trends, CareerLabs, through this partnership, strives to ensure that the newest generation of IT professionals are the cream of the crop. P.N Santosh, CEO of CareerLabs, says, “Our primary goal at CareerLabs is to make sure that students are equipped to enter the job market when they graduate, and to bridge the gap between college education and industry requirements. This MOU with Tech Mahindra will add a new dimension to our mission.”

The brand new program welcomes freshers with a background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, E&TC, Electronics, IT, Communication, MSc Computer Science & IT and MCA for projects and roles in Java, Testing, Agile, and DevOps; all greatly in demand in the industry at the moment. Any student who has graduated between 2019-2021 is eligible for this program as long as they have obtained a score of 60% or above in their SSC, HSC, bachelor’s degree, and master’s degree, as applicable.

Apply for this exciting training program here

About CareerLabs

One of India’s leading EdTech companies, CareerLabs has gained the trust of tens of thousands of students and professionals over a short span of time. Now a household name in the Indian online learning space, CareerLabs has also pioneered the nation’s very first Profile Building platform in its unique mission to help budding professionals enhance their skill sets and create the best possible profile for the job they want.

EdTech Startup Careerlabs Partners With Dr. Reddy’s for their New Chemical Engineering Certification Programme

CareerLabs, India’s first profile building EdTech startup, announces a brand new industry certification programme for chemical engineers in partnership with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited (“Dr. Reddy’s”), a leading integrated pharmaceutical company committed to providing affordable and innovative medicines for healthier lives around the world. The partnership aims at opening up avenues for students to pursue highly rewarding careers in the pharmaceutical industry and concurrently meeting the ever-increasing demand for chemical engineers to cater to the need of the hour with relevant skill development.

CareerLabs, through its Profile Builder offering, has helped thousands of students across the country secure their dream job. By conducting industry-relevant certification courses in collaboration with a range of top brands and companies, CareerLabs has been able to empower students with just the right combination of skills and credentials. This will in turn, enable them to craft unique profiles that will set them apart from their peers.

The new chemical engineering certification programme will be launched with select students across India, who will be chosen through a scholarship test administered at various colleges across the country. Towards the end of the pilot programme, successful students will be given the opportunity to pursue an internship and also be considered for possible pre-placement offers at Dr. Reddy’s in Hyderabad.

“We are elated to announce our newest partnership. CareerLabs aims to help Dr. Reddy’s have access to the best possible talent pool not only from Tier 1 and Tier 2 colleges but also from the far corners of the country,” says P.N. Santosh, CareerLabs CEO.

Chemical engineering is a field that is intertwined with a spectrum of industries and chemical engineers are highly in demand due to the versatility of their expertise. From conceptualisation and design of processes, to experimentation, to implementation; chemical engineers are required at every step of the way. The global COVID-19 pandemic further reinforced the importance of the pharmaceutical industry and chemical engineering.

Dr. Reddy’s is the latest to join the CareerLabs family of collaborators in offering a skill development certification programme for students who wish to gain significant industry-relevant experience before beginning to apply for jobs. Upskilling is the future for aspirants who want to make it in an industry that is rapidly changing and growing.

The selection process for the first batch of students for the Chemical Engineering Certification Programme starts from 20th September 2021 and is expected to close by 12th October 2021. Those interested can apply for the exclusive scholarship program at CareerLabs website.

CareerLabs is one of India’s leading EdTech companies and has gained the trust of thousands of students and professionals over a short span of time. Now a name to reckon with in the Indian online learning space, CareerLabs has also introduced the nation’s very first Profile Building platform to help budding professionals expand their skill sets and create the best possible profile for the job they want.