India’s largest Employability Skills Test to Commence across 29 states and 7 UTs on the occasion of ‘World Skills Day’.
New Delhi, July 2017: Leading Employability Assessment Company Wheebox in association with premier consortium partners AICTE, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Association of Indian Universities (AIU), Pearson Education and India’s leading HR technology outsourcing firm PeopleStrong launched India’s largest Employability Skills Test across 29 states and 7 UTs on the occasion of ‘World Skills Day’. The final year graduates, post-graduates and diploma holders from engineering, polytechnic, ITIs, state-run colleges & management schools can take part in the Wheebox Employability Test (WEST).
The registration for online assessment for educational campuses commences on 15th of July on wheebox.com/west and last date of conducting proctored examinations across campuses will be 30th October, 2017. Students can register online at wheebox.com/west and take an online test measuring individual abilities in numerical and problem solving skills along with English, basics of information technology (IT), and behavioral traits. The duration of the online test is 70 minutes and is available in both Hindi and English. The assessment test provides initial transcript and detailed scorecards for each module to the candidate highlighting the strengths and improvement areas. These scores are shared with 110 organizations across 10 Sectors in India aiming to give the candidates a snapshot of their capability.
In a span of 100 days over 5000 campuses and a million of candidates will make it the largest study on employability anywhere in the world. Last year the study encompassed over half a million candidates from talent supply and from demand side over 150 large corporations from 15 sectors participated in the study. The employability test attempts to make a meaningful matchmaking between talent demand and supply for the job market. The study and findings will be part of India Skills Report 2018 which will be published during Global Skills Summit on November.
Speaking on this occasion Nirmal Singh, Founder and CEO of Wheebox said, “Last year over 30,000 new employment opportunities were provided to young graduates from campuses as an outcome of the initiative. This partnership brings a new dimension and understanding to the way India and the global world looks at hiring skilled talent. The report provides an insight into the future jobs and skills required by employers also the hiring trends of the market while understanding the needs of the job seeker and organizations”.
“Our past reports have been stating that businesses are struggling to recruit the right people, with a lack of general employability skills including soft skills such as communication, learning agility and team work cited as the primary problem (64 percent). This sentiment may dampen business productivity, ultimately threatening future growth and profitability; India Skills report addresses this concern and enables the academia and industry to make informed decisions.”
Indian Skills Report
Started in 2014, India Skills Report 2018 will be fifth edition of the employability study to be conducted across 5000 Indian educational campuses and will address potential skill gap, future jobs and demand in Indian employment ecosystem. The outcome of the report will create standard reporting guidelines for corporate on potential skill gap involving all leading players of the Industry, supported by Industry, academia and active government participation.
India Skills Report 2018 study will bring to light the future skills in demand across 18 sectors in India and the potential hiring intent in 2018 conducted by PeopleStrong, the skill supply study will be gauged through an online assessment by Wheebox on English Language, Cognitive abilities, IT Skills, Psychometric and Domain for Sectors such as Manufacturing, Retail, Infrastructure, IT/ITES, Health Care, BFSI, Electronics, Core Engineering, Travel and Tourism.