CareerLabs, an EdTech platform that helps young professionals and college graduates build a concrete road map for their careers, and SkillAssure, a division of Pratian Learning & Consulting, has announced that it 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.
According to a press statement, the partnership programme, over the next three months, aims to fulfil the exigent hiring requirements of more than 1,200 positions at Zensar, Eurofins, Valgenesis, Bristlecone, InfoVision, Tech Mahindra, 1Pharmacy, Ernst and Young, ATMECS, Tata ELXSI, Virtusa among other renowned industry players.
With this partnership programme, CareerLabs and SkillAssure's 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, a press statement further said.
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.
Commenting on the latest development, Spokesperson of SkillAssure, Subramanian S, CEO, Pratian, said, "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."
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.
Co-founded by Santhosh P. N and Krithika Srinivasan in 2019, Bangalore-based CareerLabs is India's first Profile-Building Platform to help students prepare for their professional life beyond college. The startup has conducted more than 150 Recruitment drives and partnered with various other industry leaders like DR. Reddy's, HelloIntern for exclusive programs that bring students closer to the industry and provide direct Job Opportunities.
CareerLabs is on a mission to enable 1 million students to learn and earn better with the necessary guidance. Most students in college aspire to land their dream job, but due to the lack of industry-relevant skills, they end up in the wrong placements.
Speaking about the partnership with SkillAssure, Co-founder and CEO of CareerLabs, Santhosh P. N, said, "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."
At CareerLabs, the team offers students more than six courses that fit their interests and strengths with its career recommendations track. It is a year-long journey that students take up with CareerLabs and with real-time projects and hands-on experience at the end of the courses. These projects and experiences help students kick start their careers.
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.
