Model Career Centre to boost skilling in Chennai

In line with the National Career Service’s efforts to steer skilling in the right direction, Model Career Centres (MCC) will be coming up in several parts of the country. The programme is backed by the Labour and Employment ministry. 

The first phase will see three MCCs coming up at Gurgaon, Chennai and Mumbai, with all efforts directed to address the growing mismatch between skills and employment. The CII-MCC is aimed at providing career counselling, skill training, assessment and placement services to any registered beneficiary. “We are setting this centre in partnership with Labour and Employment Department of Govt of TN at Guindy. The centre will function from the Labour Department venue,” says a report. 

After receiving the green signal  from the Directorate General of Training and Employment (DGE&T), Ministry of Labour and Employment, CII has initiated work to set up these three MCCs. DET Director N Subbaiyan confirmed that land has been allotted for the same. MCCs will be coming up in districts too, he added. 

Incidentally, in the first year, the number of youths who are expected to benefit from this program is 4500, which would go up to 7000 in the second year. In the third year, 10,000 youths are the points of impact under the initiative. Placements would happen through multiple forum such as CII, LinkedIn, NCS platforms, Job Fairs and PeopleStrong services. 

It is learnt that an outreach program in select schools and colleges will take place between November and December while the soft launch is slated for January next year. Once the whole thing takes shape, the formal launch and a job fair will be launched by the labour ministry in partnership with the other stakeholders in January and February 2017. 

Envisioning an impact of 15,00020,000 youth per MCC per year, the idea is to identify youths from schools and colleges besides job seekers. 

Over 3 lakh students from 29 states assessed in 244 domain areas 

Aimed to identify skill gaps using talent assessment tools  

Report covered 125-plus corporates scouting for talent 

Only 37.2% of the total candidates assessed were found to be employable 

Candidates lacked essential skillsets 

Counselling and Assessment – the candidate must understand his strengths, weaknesses and employability factor 

Soft skill training – focusing on communication and people skills 

Technical up-skilling – to enhance existing skill sets 

Placement – important to match job to candidate based on aptitude