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Received the Workforce Skilling for Industry 4.0 Award from ASSOCHAM

Received the Workforce Skilling for Industry 4.0 Award from ASSOCHAM

Celebrating Recognition for Technological Excellence

We are thrilled to share the news that SkillSonics has been honored with the prestigious Technology Excellence Award for Workforce Skilling for Industry 4.0 by ASSOCHAM. This recognition stands as a testament to our unwavering commitment to technical excellence and innovation in our operations.

ASSOCHAM is one of the apex trade associations of India. Established in 1920, ASSOCHAM represents the interests of Indian businesses and industries, fostering economic growth and development. It serves as a proactive catalyst for Indian businesses, providing a platform for dialogue, collaboration, and advocacy.

The Technology Excellence Award was presented to Mr. Prasenjit Kundu, our CEO, by esteemed personalities, Mr. Ranganath Sadasiva, Chief Technology Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Mr. Rajeev Kumar, IPS, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology & Electronics, Government of West Bengal. This acknowledgment reinforces our belief in the transformative power of skill development and serves as motivation to set new benchmarks in the skilling landscape.

As we embark on this exciting journey, SkillSonics remains steadfast in its commitment to delivering excellence in workforce skilling, addressing the ever-evolving needs of Industry 4.0. We look forward to continuing to make significant contributions to the skilling ecosystem and shaping a skilled workforce for the future.

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Innovative CSR School Interventions in India by SkillSonics to Make Learning Better

SkillSonics India is an organization with expertise in delivering courses designed based on the internationally-acclaimed Swiss Vocational Education and Training model.

We have partnered with various companies and not-for-profit organizations over the years to carry out CSR school interventions in India targeted at school students, often hailing from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, to not only create awareness about various issues but also to augment the whole learning experience.

SkillSonics: Skilling Programs for Indian School Students

SkillSonics collaborates with corporate entities and relevant non-profits to empower schools with developing and implementing a robust co-curricular program within their academic syllabus. The goal is to enhance the learning experience by fostering critical thinking skills and promoting innovative education among Indian school students.

SkillSonics’ Approach towards Education and CSR Partnerships

At SkillSonics, we approach our CSR initiatives in education at the school level by highlighting the following aspects:

  • Activity-Based Learning
  • Critical Thinking
  • Working with Real Technology
  • Sustainability & Green Education

SkillSonics also ensures the encouragement of critical thinking in schools in real time through the interactive nature of our courses and the inclusion of activities such as dramatic presentations, preparation of scientific models, video lectures, and so on.

Implementation of Alternative Pedagogical Approach

The inclusion of the Alternative Pedagogical Approach (a synthesis of Theater-in-Education, Multiple Intelligence, Parallel Thinking, and STEM) by SkillSonics in certain CSR school intervention projects has definitely further elevated the level of critical thinking exhibited by the students.

Key CSR School Interventions in India by SkillSonics

SkillSonics has partnered with Pramith Foundation to execute two key long-term CSR initiatives in education at the school level on behalf of reputed corporate entities such as Mahindra CIE Automotive Ltd. and GN Foundation (Switzerland).

Through the GEMS Program and the Abhigyan Programme SkillSonics has ensured far-reaching outcomes that benefit students of the focus schools over the course of multiple years. SkillSonics and Pramith Foundation have worked together to inculcate the ability of critical thinking, creating awareness, and developing long-term good habits among school-going children across multiple schools spread across India.

The GEMS Program: A CSR Initiative by Mahindra CIE Automotive Ltd.

The GEMS Program, a Green Education CSR initiative by Mahindra CIE Automotive Ltd., has been conducted by SkillSonics, in partnership with Pramith Foundation, to create awareness among the school children on aspects of sustainability, safety and health in schools located in Pune and Aurangabad.

The program caters to students between the 1st and 7th Grades and is spread into sessions to be conducted over the course of 3 years in the form of co-curricular activities

Overall Project Impact

  • The GEMS Program has been successfully conducted across 5 Schools in Pune and Aurangabad.
  • The Program has benefited 970 Students in 1 Year.

Project Intervention

  • 60 Hours program of Activity-based Learning on sustainability, Green Education, Safety and Health for students of grades 1-7.
  • Execution of the program in Government schools having minimal basic facilities and students from underprivileged backgrounds.
  • Developing positive and good long-term habits among students through Activity-Based Learning.
  • Contribution towards positive behavioral changes among students.

Project Outcome

  • The attendance of students improved due to activity-based learning.
  • The development of good healthy habits among the students.
  • Positive feedback from Parents about the transformation in their child.
  • Improvement in academic performance (enhancing physical & mental health resulting in better grades, skills, learning and self-confidence).
  • Improvement in time management skills (better understanding of prioritizing and management of tasks).
  • Learning new and useful skills (personality development, cultural values, leadership skills, teamwork).
  • Inculcation of a deeper sense of commitment to moral and essential ethical values.

Abhigyan: A School Enrichment Programme by GN Foundation (Switzerland)

The Abhigyan Programme has been conducted by SkillSonics in partnership with Pramith Foundation, on behalf of GN Foundation (Switzerland), to equip Vernacular-medium students and teens in Creative Thinking, STEM and Communication across schools through IIT Kharagpur in underdeveloped parts of West Bengal.

The program caters to vernacular-medium students between the 5th and 8th Grades and integrates a strong co-curricular schedule in their academic syllabi.

The Abhigyan Programme successfully harnesses the benefits of Activity-Based Learning and the Alternative Pedagogical Approach to not only create awareness among school children, especially those hailing from poor economic families, on aspects of STEM learning and other identified ‘Life Skills’, but also to augment the overall learning experience.

Overall Project Impact

  • STEM projects at vernacular-medium schools executed in collaboration with Pramith Foundation and IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal.
  • Benefitted 9000 students since 2016.

Project Intervention

  • Achieve holistic development of children to enhance their readiness to face the world and be confident human beings with a higher aspirational goal.
  • Year-long embedded programs or short-duration camps, ideally administered over the course of 5 years.
  • The students participate in STEM Projects and prepare small models of the project.
  • Inculcate: Asking WHY rather than WHAT.
  • Alternative Pedagogical approach, which is a synthesis of Theatre in Education, Multiple Intelligence, Parallel Thinking, and STEM.
  • Enhancement of communication, creativity, collaboration and appreciation of STEM through all the pedagogical tools mentioned, with measurable progress on each of the attributes at the year-end.

Project Outcome

  • Enhanced Creativity and Critical Thinking.
  • Enhanced Analytical Capability.
  • Cogent Communication Skills.
  • Better Team Collaboration.
  • Contributing to a richer ‘Demographic dividend’.
  • Positive Social dividend to the sponsor.
  • Upliftment of the vernacular medium students and helping them pursue fulfilling growth.

SkillSonics Aiding the Future of Indian Education through CSR

SkillSonics strives to encourage holistic development and continue transforming students and the youth into critical thinkers and well-rounded individuals through innovative education and skilling programs for Indian school students.

SkillSonics helps Women Break the Glass Ceiling from the Shop Floors of the Indian Manufacturing Industry

The Indian Manufacturing Industry is one that has seen exponential growth over the past years, with a projected capacity to export 1 trillion USD worth of goods by 2030. This tremendous growth accounting for 17% of the nation’s GDP can be attributed to government policies, such as the National Manufacturing Policy, Production-Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI), increase in the foreign direct investment, robust domestic demand, and changes in global supply chain on the backdrop of Covid pandemic. Indian manufacturing is emerging as very competitive, reliable, and consistent industry on the world map, which is also expanding into new areas of aviation, defense, electronics, and precision manufacturing.

Fast paced technological advancements and culture of innovation are the driving factors for the surge in manufacturing activities however, availability of “Skilled Manpower” is emerging as one of the restraining factors or critical issue to keep up the momentum.

While analyzing the scenario about the availability of skilled manpower and industry requirements, we came across a stark reality of skewed gender ratio 7:1 of male to female employment in manufacturing industry (Based on a survey in 2021, the manufacturing industry of India employs a workforce of 27.3 million- of which, only 12% are women) Which is certainly not the case with Indian IT, Banking or any other IT/ITES service industry.

2023: A Tidal Influx of Women in the Indian Manufacturing Industry

One can really understand the low participation of the women in manufacturing due to hard physical work, shift workings, strenuous work environment, unavailability of basic hygiene infrastructure, family commitments, safety, and security issues in earlier days.

However, with new, clean, and neat greenfield production centers with latest technological advancements within a hygienic and safe work environment, we strongly feel the tides are shifting.

Now, the shopfloors have evolved, and the manufacturing industry is no longer a daunting environment for a woman to work in:

  • The work environment is safer, cleaner, and more conducive.
  • Manufacturing infrastructure is more advanced with less emphasis on heavy machinery operation.
  • Flexible locations and timings allow women to have a better work-life balance and focus on their families without compromising on work.
  • Women are open to relocation.
  • The gender gap in education has been significantly bridged.

Most corporates in India have recognized the importance of bringing women workforce into the fold of the Manufacturing space for the sector to further grow- a phenomenon which has very successful precedence in the growth of the Banking and IT sectors.

Special emphasis is given by corporates to mobilizing women for programs, keeping gender-specific issues in mind as they are more vulnerable to social exploitation, lack opportunities and have inherently low work participation rates.

This, however, brings us to a critical juncture- a vast untapped female workforce is vying to enter the skilled manufacturing industry, all of whom need to be technically trained to achieve their full potential. It is indeed a mammoth task, and that is exactly where SkillSonics comes into the picture.

SkillSonics: Leading Gender Diversity in Manufacturing

SkillSonics has been working in the skill-development sector for a decade now and have focused on training novices and upskilling the existing skilled workforce in various domains of the vast manufacturing industry.

In the past 3 years, SkillSonics has been championing the cause of gender diversity in manufacturing. SkillSonics has been leading a multitude of successful projects and drives that help more and more women enter the industry armed with the necessary technical skills and knowledge to thrive.

Our experience in recent ambitious projects has given us completely different understanding about today’s young girls with aspiration and dreams. Our learnings after sourcing, training, and deploying thousands of girls are the stories courage, aspirations, commitment to make it big in the traditionally male dominated arena.

Today’s young generation of girls are ready to travel, shift the base location, ready to work in the shifts and willing to be equal partners in growth of Indian manufacturing success stories.

Skill Development & Employability Programs for Women Promoting Aspirational Livelihoods

We strongly believe that more participation of the girls on the shop floor will really help in easing out the critical issue of availability of skilled manpower and bring in much more value in terms of discipline, enhance productivity and more importantly empowering the families.
We at SkillSonics are pleased to bring you snapshot of our work and our own success stories for the industry to practice, improvise and innovate in near future.

Snapshot: Brief Summary of Facts and Figures

Trained Numbers: 7500+ Girls trained in technical trades.
Education Level: 12th Pass/Diploma / B.E.
Domains: CNC/Mechatronics/Electrical/Electronic Assembly/Robotic Simulation in Manufacturing/ Building Information Modelling/Electric Vehicle /Solar PV system/ Machine Learning
Placements: With large multinational corporates
Geographical Coverage: Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa, Maharashtra.

SkillSonics: Leading Gender Diversity in Manufacturing

Intervention 1: Worked with a leading global conglomerate for their Precision Manufacturing Unit
Mandate: Source, Train & Deploy 2000+ Girls on shop floor in Assembly domain.

SkillSonics Role:

  • Impact Sourcing, Prescreening from varied geographies.
  • One-month -long extensive residential technical training program at 6-8 COE’s.
  • 99% Placements.

Highlights:

  • 18-year-old 12th pass girls are working on shop floor in large numbers.
  • Travelled 1000+ Kms from completely different geographies & now working in completely different environment of language, food habits & culture.

Intervention 2: Collaborated with a Food Processing retail giant, in their Spice factory in Guntur, to train and mobilize women with the necessary technical skills to dominate in the arena. Sourced, Trained & placed 120+ Candidates with Residential Training program.
Intervention 3: Trained and certified 100+ village women from Odisha as Plumbing Technicians to provide them with a sustainable livelihood.
Intervention 4: Source, trained and placed, 100+ women in CNC and Mechatronics at a manufacturing plant in Hosur, Tamil Nadu.
Intervention 5: Trained 5000+ women, across projects, including in the highly technical arenas of Precision Manufacturing, CNC, Robotic Simulation, Electric Vehicle manufacturing and so on.

Bridging the Gender Gap on the Shopfloors is a Core Mission of SkillSonics

SkillSonics strongly believes that the solution to the skill shortage being faced by the growing Indian manufacturing industry is to increase women’s participation in the sector and aims to conduct more projects and programs in 2023, and onwards, to bridge the gender gap in the Manufacturing Industry.

One of SkillSonics’ core missions in 2023 is to ensure more and more women enter the shopfloors equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge, and have their way paved towards aspirational careers with social and economic stability.

We at SkillSonics are fortunate to have industry partners to believe in our capabilities to deliver to their expectations on the road-less-traveled of Gender Equality in the Manufacturing shop floor.

Armed with challenging experience and critical learnings, Skillsonics is ready for more such projects from organizations which are exploring the ways and means of bringing more and more women workforce on the shop floor and create a highly productive work environment.

Careers

Careers

To apply in below open position, send a mail to info@skillsonics.com, with position in subject line.

Position: Trainer – Mechanical / Mechatronics / Robotics

Education: B.E/B.Tech/Diploma – Mechanical / Mechatronics / Robotics & Automation / Manufacturing
Experience: 2 to 6 years
Job location: Tamil Nadu
Job Type: Contractual

Job Description
  • Training comprising theoretical inputs and practical real time
  • Execute training sessions, webinars, workshops etc.
  • Arrange for and conduct on-site training when needed
  • Keep and report data on completed courses, absences, issues etc.
  • Observe and evaluate results of training programs
  • Determine overall effectiveness of programs and make improvements
  • Excellent Communication and Written Skills in Tamil
  • Proficiency in handling the most complex of technical development concepts, latest software tools and technologies.
  • Ready to travel extensively in the region to conduct practical sessions at various colleges
  • Immediate Joiners required

Position: Business Development and Partnership Manager

Education: MBA or equivalent degree from a reputed University
Experience: 5 to 8 years of relevant experience as a BDM in Skills Development sector
Job location: Kolkata
Job Type: ON-ROLL

Job Description
  • Excellent Communication and Written Skills in English.
  • Proficiency in handling the most complex of technical development concepts, latest software tools and technologies, strong database concepts and designing techniques.
  • Maintain quarterly conversion rate from daily meetings and calls.
  • Submitting all suitable RFP, EOI and online proposals for new business acquisition.
  • Updating of pipeline of new client’s sheet weekly.
  • Updating the immediate supervisor about the previous day’s activities for business development at the beginning of next day.
  • Meeting all potential clients including Govt & PSU and onboard new business for SIPL
  • BDM must generate database of the new clients and drive the business development process according to the need of the organisation.
  • Maintaining strong relationship with the existing as well as new clients for business development.

Position: Trainer – Food Technology/Mechanical

Education: B.Tech/BSE Food technology
Experience: 0 to 8 years
Job location: Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
Job Type: Contractual

Job Description
  • Instruct students on how to develop certain skills.
  • Demonstrate and supervise safe and proper use of tools and equipment.
  • Knowledge in Food Technology
  • Should be very proficient in Telugu and English Languages.
  • Immediate Joiners required

Position: Content Development and Training Delivery

Department: SME (Technical – Mechanical)
Education: Technical Diploma in Mechanical.
Experience: 4 to 6 Years
Job Location: Bangalore/Kolkata/Pune
Job Type: Contractual
Domain Industry: Any process industry like Steel / Aluminium/ Automotive/ Cement / Sugar /Foundry etc. with exposure for the shop floor work & knowledge about the manufacturing processes, utilities servicing, maintenance in plant.

Job Description
  • Understanding Client Manufacturing processes.
  • Understand the new processes of any industry with few inputs & visits.
  • Able to prepare the content with the help of data from various sites available on Internet, Client inputs & plant visit.
  • Understand the different manufacturing processes and criticalities related to safety, maintenance etc.
  • Building training solutions for skilling or upskilling,
  • Curate and co-develop high quality training content.
  • Good Content writing ability, MS Office proficiency.
  • Deliver / oversee training delivery.
  • Ready for travel to the client location as & when required

Position: Senior Manager - HR

Department: HR
Education: PG in HR / MBA / MA from reputed Universities. People with Engineering background will be preferred.
Experience: 7 to 10 yrs
Job Location: Kolkata, West Bengal. Requires regular travel to Bengaluru and Pune
Job Type: ON-ROLL

Job Description
  • Must have – Deep domain in recruitment across junior and mid level for manufacturing or engineering organizations.

Recruitment (60% + load)

  • Sourcing, shortlisting of candidates and organizing interviews
  • Completion of onboarding & joining process

HR Administration

  • Administration of Leave and Attendance of employees
  • Documentation and maintaining personal records of employees
  • Work with Finance and ensuring compliance of statutory requirements under various labour legislations
  • MIS & reporting – Preparing MIS reports

Employee Relations and Organization Development

  • Employee grievance redressals, coordinating employee relations and employee engagement activities
  • Organizing induction and orientation for new employees
  • Coordinating training and development activities

Position: Lead – Digital Marketing

Department: Digital Marketing
Education: MBA/PGDM
Experience: 4-9 Years
Job Location: Kolkata, West Bengal
Job Type: ON-ROLL

Job Description
  • Plan and execute all digital marketing, including SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social media and display advertising campaigns
  • Design, build and maintain our social media presence.
  • Measure and report performance of all digital marketing campaigns, and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs)
  • Identify trends and insights, and optimize spend and performance based on the insights
  • Brainstorm new and creative growth strategies
  • Plan, execute, and measure experiments and conversion tests
  • Collaborate with internal teams to create landing pages and optimize user experience
  • Utilize strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to-end customer experience across multiple channels and customer touch points
  • Instrument conversion points and optimize user funnels
  • Collaborate with agencies and other vendor partners
  • Evaluate emerging technologies. Provide thought leadership and perspective for adoption where appropriate

Position: Lead – Market Research, Sales support and Lead Generation

Department: Market Research
Education: MBA/PGDM
Experience: 4-9 Years
Job Location: Kolkata, West Bengal
Job Type: ON-ROLL

Job Description
  • The applicant will be carrying out research on industry segments, new investment and training needs, emerging technologies and L&D demands across Indian Manufacturing, Engineering and Service sectors.
  • This demands Secondary / Desk research for different clients’ groups; including identification of Skilling / training needs of companies (Manufacturing and service sectors), Institutes, other organizations (NGOs etc.) and Governments.
  • Lead generation and research-based qualification of opportunities and leads.
  • Plan and guide digital media campaigns and response analytics.
  • Creating business proposals, collateral etc.
  • Liaison with Industry Associations and national cooperate bodies (CII FICCetc ).
  • Planning and executing marketing campaigns, promotions and event management.

Trainer

Trainer – Food Technology/Mechanical

In the classroom and on the shopfloor

Swiss VET is based on a dual-track apprenticeship system — practical training at a company’s premises is supplemented by vocational and general educational subjects at a VET institute.

SkillSonics can set up training workshops for a client’s employed and contracted technicians, as well as for its vendors’ employees. An entry-level technician gets practical shop-floor training and theoretical instruction. The trainee learns the company’s work processes and its cultural norms. Most importantly, the technician is ready to perform independently at international skill levels after completing the program. Existing technicians can take accelerated courses to upgrade their skills in areas where the company has identified skill gaps or wants to reskill its workforce.

Entry Level: Multi-Skilled Production Technician & Maintenance/Service Technician

Duration: 2 to 3 years

Fields:

  • Conventional Machining
  • CNC Machining
  • Joining of Metals & Sheet Metal
  • Mechatronics
Specialized: Production Technician

Duration: 6 months to 1 year

Fields:

  • Electrical/Mechanical
  • Skills Upgrade: Accelerated courses of up to 1 month
  • For workforce/engineering students
  • Designed in modules for flexible delivery
Trainer and Expert Vocational Education and Training (VET) Qualification Profiles

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