…”India is expected to be home to a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022. About 12 million persons are expected to join the workforce every year. This talent pool needs to be adequately skilled”… (Extract from the document prepared by ICRA Management Consultancy Services Limited (IMaCS) to serve as a background note for the 3

rd Global Skills Summit of the

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI))

“Even those recruits from some of the best engineering colleges are simply not job-ready. If these graduates were “completely deployable in terms of their technical proficiency”, they would need in-house training of only a week or 10 days”.

Exec. VP, Human Resources, Top IT Services Company

Talent Development for Colleges

“India does not have problem of unemployment but unemployability”

Dr. APJ Kalam, Former President of India

The IT industry is plagued by non-availability of ready-to-employ talent as per a survey done by Mckinsey-NASSCOM. One of the reasons cited by the industry for the shortfall of talent is lack of academic institutions ability to build desired skills essential to perform tasks at workplace.

All businesses cry for employability skills as these enable their growth and competitiveness.

At CleanSoft Academy, we have developed an industry-oriented Program for IT Industry Excellence – PRIDE. The program’s competency framework is designed to groom college students to perform effectively and contribute to the organization’s business goals in their professional career immediately after their graduation. The objective of PRIDE is to build employability skills and make college students completely deployable and easily fit into the IT industry environment. PRIDE is tailored to plug IT industry skill gaps as below:

Provide exposure to systems approach / thinking and help students to graduate from “programmer” to a well-rounded “software professional”

Apply concepts of product engineering Improve ability to ‘deep-dive’ into a particular focus area as experience level increases Improve soft skills, especially when it comes to interacting with the client Provide exposure to corporate culture – reporting, compliance, escalations, e-mail etiquettes and protocols

The benefits that colleges can derive by including this program as part of their academic curriculum are:

Develop talented workforce as per industry expectations resulting in increased student placements Attract right companies for campus recruitment Facilitate better industry-academia interface to help faculty understand industry function/trends and create

opportunity for commercialization of projects with industry Create additional revenue stream opportunity

Impart. Transform. Propagate.

PRIDE PROGRAM FOR IT INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE

CleanSoft Academy – www.cleansoft.in - (a division of STAG Software Private Limited) provides specialized knowledge

solutions to groom fresh talent for IT industry, and transform software professionals to reach the pinnacle of software excellence. Some quick facts:

Have run 100+ batches of graduate career programs in software testing

Have trained around 5000 engineers

Groomed 800 campus recruits via Finishing School Program

CleanSoft Academy is a division of STAG Software Private Limited. Visit www.stagsoftware.com for details.

Contact 080- 28495574/74 Or send email to

marketing@cleansoft.in

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The grooming program focuses on developing talent in students in the following areas:

The delivery methodology is as below:

Program Phase Methodology Approach CleanSoft Academy Role Industry Alignment

Exploratory Learning Our approach to teaching is experiential; we have devised a unique learning model - “Listen, Explore, Think & Expand” - that is cogent, result-oriented and fosters evolution.

Teaching and Mentoring

Industry Practice Application

Application on Project Developing real life applications is much more than just coding. It requires a team working collaboratively using a set of practices based on software engineering and usage of tools.

Mentoring and Facilitation

Industry Exposure

Industry Interaction Webinar, Seminar, Workshop, Lectures, Conferences…

Facilitation

The program is specifically designed for College/University students to groom them into IT industry-ready and employable graduates. This is delivered at the college campus and runs in parallel with the academic curriculum.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

Phase 1: Industry Alignment

Enables the students understand the industry needs and equip them with technical & soft skills to align to the current needs of IT industry.

Phase 2: Industry Practices Application

Apply product engineering practices in their final semester project in a “Sandbox Environment”.

Phase 3: Industry Exposure

Listen, Interact with IT industry leaders to know about industry trends, expectations and be inspired.

HIGHLIGHT

The teaching is experiential; it instills a sense of commitment in students to strive for excellence in their career.

Industry Sandbox Environment Students learn Product Engineering practices on their academic project. This helps them to move from amateur coding to professional software development.

Industry Interaction Students become aware of current industry trends, know career opportunities, attend seminar / workshops / lectures, and get opportunity to interact with industry leaders and be exposed to latest technologies.

PRIDE - PROGRAM FOR IT INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE PROGRAM

Talent Development Focus Area

Excellence / Quality

Product Engineering

Systems Thinking

Communication Verbal, Written

Work Culture Team Work