SkillingIndia – Exploring Opportunities

SkillingIndia established in the year 2018 is a new age skill development startup started by industry experienced professionals & entrepreneurs from IIT, IIM, and other reputed institutions with a diverse industry experience of  20+ years across the globe. The startup’ focuses on Upskilling, Right-Skilling and “Continuous Learning” for higher employability, organizational productivity, entrepreneurship, career & personal growth.  The company provides right skills to the students, industry aligned career exposure along with training, tools & certifications. It also provides a platform for students who want to become entrepreneur & innovator thus helping them in life & people skills

With headquarter & training center in Bangalore, SkillingIndia provides a holistic development to the youth. It not only builds a culture of continuous opportunity of learning & growth, but also emphasizes on skills, jobs, recruitment & career growth. The startup was the vision of Neeraj Kumar(serial entrepreneur & career coach) & Manish Chowdhary(Ex-CEO – Tally Education)

The idea of SkillingIndia came to Neeraj Kumar when he working with another venture, a recruitment research startup. Here, he was building a skilling & career counseling solution. That time, he saw challenges that exist in the work environment. Firstly, people do not focus on continuous learning and secondly, in modern new working order, companies focus on reskilling & upskilling the employees were minimal. Thus he started talking about this idea to different people from the education landscape in India & USA and thus met his co-founder Manish Chowdhary. Both the founders started building the startup from scratch with passion & right capability.   

 With India aiming to become a five-trillion-dollar economy, COVID 19 and the global lockdown has impacted the skills ecosystem, resulting in an imbalance in the skills landscape. There is a dire need to skill, upskill and multi-skill a huge workforce so there is suitable employability. Thus, promoting education, special education, employment-enhancing vocational skills is the need of the hour. Today, there is urgent need to meet the dynamic needs of the employers by offering flexibility in the courses being designed, certifications being offered, and training the resources. Thus, the need of the hour is to tap into technology to leap-frog youth of today into employability. 

In view of the huge problem, SkillingIndia aims to bridge gap on the following –

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

Today students find it hard to understand and practice the application of the information in the context of the “real work world”. Thus to develop industry-relevant skills the company has built Certified Employability Programs that provide continuous exposure to the industry helps bridge the gap between academia and the real world. 

UPSKILLING / RESKILLING / FUTURE SKILLS

In a world of fast-paced evolution and disruption, organizations need to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant. Technology is accelerating innovation and disruption across industries and work areas. Growth in an organization depends not just on a good performance in your existing role but also on the ability to take up future responsibilities, which in turn requires additional/future skills.

SkillingIndia helps professionals continuously upgrade their skills through well-researched and industry-approved programs such as Python, AI, ML, Data Science, IoT, Full Stack, DevOps, Cloud, Certified HR Professional (CHRP), Certified Recruitment Professional (CRP). This helps to meet the changing needs of the industry and stay ahead.

ORGANIZATIONAL & PERSONAL SUCCESS SKILLS

In today’s VUCA world, professionals are constantly challenged and pressured to deliver their best in multiple domains in personal and professional life. This has made skills such as domain skills, organizational and personal skills in demand. 

CAREER DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT COUNSELLING

Students, in most cases, are not well exposed to the fast-paced evolving world of opportunities for a career. Mostly, they are also unclear about their personal interests and strengths. As a result, they begin thinking of what they want to do only when they get into college, or sometimes even after graduating from college. 

Skilling India conducts career discovery workshops conducted by industry experts that provide the students in understanding about their interest & strengths and help in taking career decisions. 

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION

Entrepreneurship is essential to create a beautiful future and an emerging trend globally. The entrepreneurship program aligns young minds and professionals to global trends in Entrepreneurship & Innovation. It sets the foundation of required Entrepreneurial skills through guided exposure, insights, skilling, hands-on projects and mentoring programs.

DIGITAL LEARNING SOLUTIONS

Online teaching and digital learning is an inclusive part of education and learning ecosystem now. The company provides learning management software. Digital learning app for Math and ScienceCourses & Programs

SkillingIndia offers job-oriented domain skills such as Integrated (6/4 Semester) , Job Oriented Programs for B.Com/ BBA/ M.Com/ MBA/ BCA/ B.Tech; Certified Finance and Accounts Professional (CFAP)/ Advanced(ACFAP); Tally Expert (Levels 1, 2, 3), Quickbooks, SAP, GST/ Advanced GST; Banking and Finance Specialist, Stock Market Specialist; Tech Experts – Python, AI, ML, Data Science, IoT, Full Stack, DevOps, Cloud, Certified HR Professional (CHRP), Certified Recruitment Professional (CRP). It also provides opportunities to working professionals to enhance their skills  such as Digital Marketing, Six Sigma (Green Belt), MS Excel/ Advanced Excel, Financial Analytics, Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship,  Finance for non-Finance

Expansion & funding

The company plans to increase employee strength in product development, marketing, sales, customer relations, HR and recruitment team. Presently, SkillingIndia is bootstrapped and looking for right valuable investors.  

Traction & Tie-ups

The company has tied-up with College institutions. It has roped in Pearson Talent Lens as assessment partner. The company has already worked with more than 1000 students, boarded 100 instructors & experts to provide continuous learning on more than 250 subjects. More than 1500 students has since inception taken tests for continuous evaluation. 

Website link: https://skillingindia.in/ 

Neeraj Kumar & Manish Chowdhary, Founders of SkillIngIndia
Neeraj Kumar & Manish Chowdhary is the founders of SkillingIndia & alumni of IIT & IIM. With a passion for learning, both of them started Skilling India, a new age skill development startup in the year 2018. The startup focuses on Upskilling, Right-Skilling and “Continuous Learning” for higher employability, organizational productivity, entrepreneurship, career & personal growth. The company provides right skills to the students, industry aligned career exposure along with training, tools & certifications. It also provides a platform for students who want to become entrepreneur & innovator thus helping them in life & people skills. The idea of SkillingIndia came to Neeraj Kumar when he was working with another venture TalentOne-a recruitment research startup. Here, he was building a skilling & career counseling solution. That time, he saw challenges that exist in the work environment. Firstly, people do not focus on continuous learning and secondly, in modern new working order, companies focus on reskilling & upskilling the employees were minimal. Thus he started talking about this idea to different people from the education landscape in India & USA and thus met his co-founder Manish Chowdhary. Both the founders started building the startup from scratch with passion & right capability.