11th December 2019: Today, we have already stepped into an age where advanced skills are of critical importance to survive in the job market. Skillsets are what can make or break a candidate’s prospects during an interview. So, the wave of advanced technologies continues to sweep through India, the need for ultramodern skills can already be felt strongly by big and small businesses operating over here.
Thankfully, startups and their avant-garde approaches are preparing our youth for this novel market. Leveraging their revolutionary approaches, they are enabling unemployed professionals to develop relevant skills in a personalized format. Here are some of them:
Safeducate: Safeducate is India’s largest training, skilling and consulting firm that specializes in the domains of Supply Chain Management & Logistics. Launched in 2007 by the house of Safexpress, the leading logistics service provider in India, the idea of Safeducate evolved with an aim to meet the demand gap for the skilled workforce in the ever-growing logistics of the country. In 2013, Safeducate came into being as a separate legal entity working towards the skilling and empowerment of individuals by offering industry-relevant courses, programs, and workshops.
- Delhi-based Safeducate works towards developing the right competencies to enable learners to achieve a sustainable livelihood by making them job-ready, or kindling in them a spirit to pursue entrepreneurship. In a span of almost six years, Safeducate has trained around 70,000 people from 153 centres across India, including Allahabad, Chapra, Madnapur, Deogarh, and more.
- The company clocks Rs 30 crore turnover. Safeducate has also been accredited with launching one of India’s first container schools. The Safeducate Container School, which was created using recycled shipping containers, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 15, 2015.
- Safeducate also launched Car-O-Job, which transforms vans into virtual reality (VR)-led experiential centres for students. Through VR, the van gives students glimpses of different jobs in retail, manufacturing, warehousing, etc.
Shopmatic: Shopmatic is a Singapore-based technology firm that provides e-commerce solutions to small businesses and individual entrepreneurs. Launched in 2014with an objective to empower millions of aspiring entrepreneurs with a digital footprint, the company recently partnered with Singapore-based retail management solutions company Octopus to disrupt the retail market in Asia-Pacific with a suite of services to address the gaps that exist for offline businesses in going online. The synergy is helping local retailers implement an efficient omnichannel retail management system post establishing their business online. Equipped with a holistic online and offline ecosystem, these local retail stores are now able to manage their customers, reduce operational costs, synchronize inventory, onboard new customers, and offer loyalty points, etc. Such facilities, supplemented by real-time visibility of sales and staff performance, are enabling retailers to enhance their efficiency and scale up their retail business further. Through such a value proposition, Shopmatic is facilitating an efficient omnichannel ecosystem for Kirana stores across the country, thus digitally empowering them. Till date, Shopmatic has enabled the online success of over 300,000+ businesses. It has constantly persevered to bring the latest tech advancements on its platform, determined to enable the online success of small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs in emerging markets.
Avsar: One of the fastest-growing recruitment consultants in India, Avsar identifies and sources the best talents through the entire life-cycles and across the hierarchy spectrum of highly professional and organized establishments across the country. Operating with a customer-centric approach enables the company to provide end-to-end recruitment solutions of unparalleled quality, responsiveness, and flexibility. Avsar being a young next-gen HR services provider catering to a plethora of verticals in the recruitment ecosystem such as staffing, leadership hiring and recruitment process outsourcing. Avsar is present in over 180 locations across 24 states and catering to over 150+ clients, and growing. Its diverse clientele includes renowned names such as Walmart, Flipkart, GooglePay, PayTm, Makemytrip India, Cars24.com, Amazon, Swiggy, and Livpure, among several others.
Zostel- An evangelizing experiential travel and unlocking India for everyone to experience fearlessly. Started in 2013 with its unique concept, brand facilitate travelers in finding bespoke experiences that truly help them in discovering the real and experiencing the ‘flavors’ of the destination, rather than just seeing it! Travelers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, and adventurers all share the common Zostel spirit of following their hearts and thus create the Zosteler community, sharing their stories, creating lasting memories, lifelong relationships and continuing to inspire every soul to live life to the maximum. Zostel till date has created 100+ Micro entrepreneurs through its business model by allowing them to list their properties. In addition to this, it also gives an opportunity to the travel enthusiasts to come and explore their passion by volunteering with Zostel. Till date, they have served over 1000+ volunteers across cities.
Mall91- Mall91 is India’s leading social commerce platform for vernacular users across tier two, three and four cities. The first principles-based vernacular social commerce platform combines live videos, social gaming, social content, voice, and messaging AI to enable the next 400 million internet users to transact online. Mall91 has created a platform that can engage vernacular audiences while also allowing them to earn commission on transactions that they facilitate. The company creates micro-entrepreneurship by allowing people from tier 2& 3 cities to expand their business and come online. In addition to this, it also provides an opportunity to the individuals from smaller cities to deliver the products to the last mile and increase brand reach.
