TalentSprint, the Youth Career Accelerator in India, has unveiled a series of new
digital programs aimed at BTech, BSc fresh graduates and final semester students who hail
from tier 2 and tier 3 regions and are seeking their first job in the IT sector.
With a mission to empower one million youth realize their career dreams, TalentSprint intends to position these holistic, well-rounded programs as one-stop career solutions that can help rural and
semi-urban youth overcome traditional barriers of gender, geography, and privilege. While
young college graduates across the nation continue to aspire for the best jobs the IT
sector has to offer every year, the intrinsic pattern of entry-level IT recruitment itself
is undergoing a seismic shift.
Commenting on this latest initiative, Dr. Santanu Paul, Managing Director & Chief
Executive Officer, TalentSprint said, “Our digitally intelligent platform and these new
digital courses will empower every young person to prepare for exciting, high-value IT
careers. In effect, we are trying to create a backstop for the systemic failures in higher
education. As we have already seen with our digital courses in the banking and financial
sectors, now being accessed by youth across 350+ towns across India, the appetite for
high-quality employability courses, made available digitally, is practically unlimited.”
Conventional on-campus centric models are giving way to off-campus intensive models.
The old first-hire-then-train model is being replaced by a new first-train-then-hire
model. These disruptions are being driven by a growing appetite among new startups and
established companies to reduce their bench and training costs and increase just-in-time
access to the right talent. Taken together, these trends effectively shift the entire
burden of job-readiness over to the job-seekers, who now have to invest in the correct
industry-ready skill courses and standardized employability assessments before they can
qualify for high-value, entry-level IT jobs.
On the USP of TalentSprint’s digital programs, Sridhar K, Chief Digital Officer,
TalentSprint added, “Our programs enable students learn 24×7, the ability to play, replay,
revise lessons at their own convenience, without diluting the opportunity to get one’s
doubts clarified by senior faculty, which is done through live sessions. We also conduct
weekly All India Mock Tests to enable one to benchmark their performance vis-à-vis
others.”