Youth4work Now Showcases Skills of 1 Million Indians
Industry: Business
Driven by the belief ‘Ideas don’t work unless you do the work’, Youth4work eyes 50 Million users by 2020
New Delhi, India (PRUnderground) September 15th, 2016
India is in a unique position to become the most populous and youthful democracy in the world. Realizing the potential, Youth4work, a leading online platform helping youth to become employable embarked on a journey. Youth4work, one of the most trusted platform by youth recently crossed 1 million user base. Demographic dividend can be reaped only if the youth are guided to pursue skill development opportunities aligned to industry standards, thus Youth4work is playing a major role helping youth to introspect, self-assess, improve and showcase their talents.
It is estimated that on an average 1 million youth will join the workforce every month for the next decade. Youth4work, with one-of-its-kind technology platform, is providing youth with an access to real time data on opportunities in the market for salaried jobs and entrepreneurship. It has partnered with industry bodies and training providers working towards making India the Skill Capital of the world in the next few years.
“Talent acquisition scenario is changing and employers now hire people for particular skills, e.g. they want a person who knows Digital Marketing and not only an MBA in Marketing. In the last 3 years, we have grown from 10,000 to 1,000,000 users enabling them to self-assess their skills from the comforts of their homes, improve and showcase them to find opportunities,” says Mr. Rachit Jain, Founder & CEO, Youth4work.
Ms. Shivangi Chaurasiya, an engineering student from Rajkot, elated on her association with the platform says, “I found Youth4work when I was preparing for the placement. I was amazed by the unique approach to test and rank people city-wise and globally and get us familiar with every learning opportunity.”
Mr. Sathananthan Selvaraj from Chennai says, “Youth4work was recommended to me by my friend. I took various skill tests and found I am good in SEO skill and rank high in my city. I boast about this within my family & friends. This also helped me with few good opportunities for work, though I know little English.”
“Our technology uses proprietary algorithm & machine learning to rank users against like-talented people across geographies. The incredible responses of our users affirm that we are on the right path to connect and impact people in remotest parts of the country. We aim for 50 million users in 2020 aligning with India@75 mission”, shares Mr. Jain.
With a million users, growing exponentially, Youth4work has undoubtedly redesigned the approach to education and careers for youth in India.
About Youth4work
Headquartered in New Delhi, Youth4work is an innovative talent development initiative with a vision – “To be the preferred personal space for every aspiring Youth to introspect, self-assess and improve his/her own skills”. The user communities span across domains such as IT, Engineering, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Retail, HR, Design & Creativity, Skill Development verticals, PMKVY and many more. Intelligent assessments and global ranking algorithms help users to ‘identify and showcase’ their talents whereby a variety of online courses and competitive practice materials help Youth acquire skills, improve their rankings and enhance employability.
