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Wednesday 27 November 2019

NIIT Unveils FutureFest - a Countrywide Endeavour to Empower College Students for Jobs of the Future


 New Delhi, Delhi, IndiaNIIT Limited, a worldwide pioneer in Skills and Talent Development, revealed ‘FutureFest’, an effort to inspire college students to improve their knowledge on new-age talents through future ready programs, together with their normal studies and academic curriculum. NIIT will organize career fests countrywide across 50 colleges in India wherein specialists will reach out to 25,000 students, educating them about the necessity of future ready careers.


Throughout the college fests, NIIT will organize career counselling, special lectures, music concerts, and a few fun acts all over the campus to assist students get a peek into the careers of the future.

Bimaljeet Singh Bhasin, President, Skills and Career Business, NIIT Ltd., observed, “Having received a positive feedback from aspiring professionals and industry on our ‘Future Ready Talent’ initiative, we are now extending it to colleges across India. Through this initiative we aim to expose graduating students and aspiring professionals to new possibilities and help them build successful careers. For it is important for students to realise that to be successful in today’s fast-paced economy, they require the right set of skills along with their degree.”

 As revealed by the Future of Jobs Report (World Economic Forum), jobs in digital technology will increase from 17 % in 2018 to 33 % in 2022. Calculations have shown that 75 million jobs may be displaced by a change in the division of labour between humans and machines, while 133 million new functions may emanate that are more adapted to this model. This reveals a huge necessity of skilled employees for futuristic industry 4.0 job roles.

In this direction, NIIT offers new age programs in Digital Marketing and Branding, Data Analytics, Full Stack Software Engineering, Banking & Finance, and Accounting & Business Analytics.

NIIT’s ‘Future Ready Talent’ is a recent endeavour where seminars were oryanised countrywide across 26 centres in India, along with Industry discussions & seminars. Successful leaders from varied areas shared their knowhow with the students, educating them about the significance of new-age future ready careers, as also discussing what it will take for aspiring professionals to be Future Ready.
About NIIT

NIIT is a top Skills and Talent Development Corporation that is building a manpower pool for worldwide industry needs. The company, which was founded in 1981 to assist the nascent IT industry overcome its human resource challenges, presently ranks among the globe's key training companies owing to its extensive and thorough range of talent development programs. With a footprint in over 30 nations, NIIT offers training and development solutions to Individuals, Businesses and Establishments. NIIT has three chief lines of business throughput the world – Corporate Learning Group, Skills & Careers Business and MindChampion Learning Systems Limited.

NIIT's Corporate Learning Group (CLG) furnishes Managed Training Services (MTS) to market-leading companies in North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. The Skills & Careers Business (SNC) delivers a wide array of learning and skill development programs to millions of individual and corporate learners in spheres consisting of Digital Transformation, Banking, Finance & Insurance, Soft Skills, Business Process Excellence, Retail Sales Enablement, Management Education, Multi-Sectoral Vocational Skills, Digital Media Marketing, and new-age IT. As NIIT's wholly owned subsidiary for its K-12 school learning initiative - MindChampion Learning Systems Limited (MLSL), gives curriculum based comprehensive array of education learning solutions to private schools in India under the nGuru brand. The product portfolio consists  of technology-driven classroom solutions, labs, evaluation solutions, career guidance and counselling programs, and courseware solutions for IT, Maths, Science and English. As the Most Trusted Training Brand in India for 5th year in a row (Brand Trust Report, 2017), NIIT's learning and talent development solutions, persist to obtain extensive acknowledgement globally. NIIT has been named among the Top 20 Training Outsourcing Companies for the past eleven successive years by Training Industry, Inc. USA. Further, top Indian ICT journal Dataquest has endowed NIIT with 'Top Training Company' award consecutively for the past 20 years, since the commencement of this category. NIIT has also been featured as the 'Most Respected Education Company'- 2016 by top financial magazine, Business World.
By ANJISHNU BISWAS 

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