New Delhi: Job skills credentialing firm, Aspiring Minds on Wednesday said it is adding over 250 assessment centres pan India in partnership with Don Bosco Tech Society.
These assessment centres spread across 27 States will be used by Aspiring Minds and its partners for delivering various skill based assessments and certifications, says a statement.
Recognition of skill is extremely important in the blue collar job space where employability indicators are otherwise broken. The centres will allow freshly trained manpower as well as currently employed workers (RPL a.k.a. Recognition of Prior Learning) to get recognized for their skills by getting assessed and earning certificates, Economic Times reported.
The candidates will be able to gain certification for over 110 job roles like electricians, plumbers, beautician etc. across 15+ sectors including Hospitality, Plumbing, Electronics, Agriculture, Beauty and Wellness to name a few. These new centers will also strengthen Aspiring Minds’ global skill initiatives in the Middle East, Africa and South/Southeast Asia
“Assessment driven, industry recognized certifications are quintessential in enabling youth get the right jobs. Our skills assessment technology is used by millions of job seekers every year including lakhs of youth with vocational training. With the partnership with Don Bosco Tech Society, these vocational certifications can be taken closer to the youth in India and help them get recognized for jobs,” said Himanshu Aggarwal, co-founder and CEO, Aspiring Minds in a statement.
Aspiring Minds’ concept
Aspiring Minds’ AMCAT, a standardized test similar to the GMAT, provides a benchmark for employers to evaluate candidates for the purpose of hiring. Aspiring Minds helps employers identify objective parameters required for a job profile using proprietary statistical techniques.
Applicants are filtered based on these parameters assessed using AMCAT at the time of recruitment, thus reducing eventual low performers and improving organizational efficiency.
Aspiring Minds takes the same test to more than three million students graduating out every year in India, for them to be able to gauge their job-fitment, areas of improvement and be able to highlight their job-fitments to multiple employers.
This India-wide database of already-assessed candidates is used by multiple corporates to hire in standardized and cost-effective way based on their specific parameters. In one line, Aspiring Minds’ is a talent exchange powered by a standardized high-fidelity assessment product which connects applicants and employers. An efficient talent exchange helps making the labour (job) market more efficient and enables fair return to human capital.