Developing Skills

A key annual meeting of the RSS leadership will begin here on Sunday and the deliberations will focus on how to create an atmosphere of social harmony, motivate people to perform their duties and make them self-reliant. The three-day meeting will also review the progress of the organisation's expansion plan for the centenary of its foundation in 2025, head of media relations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sunil Ambekar earlier said. He said the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha will be attended by more than 1,400 office-bearers, including RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale. From the BJP, president J P Nadda and general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh will attend the meeting, he said. A select number of office-bearers of 34 RSS-linked organisations including Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) will also attend it, he added. The Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha is the highest decision-making body of the RSS, the ideological fountainhead of the .

Smriti Irani, the minister for women and child development, emphasised the significance of convergence amongst various departments for delivering high-quality education to empower girls

The strategic thrust for Jai Anusandhaan has to be hi-tech research and innovation with entrepreneurial approaches to leapfrog

As jobs and workers reshuffle, within countries and across them, both employers and jobseekers benefit when they can perfectly match skills to roles

People with skills in AI, cloud etc have been quitting jobs since 2021, giving employers a tough time. Take a look at the skills that are in demand amid the competition between IT firms and start-ups

But less than half the organisations have training plan in place, says report prepared by AlphaBeta and commissioned by AWS

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72% Indian respondents say they are very actively learning digital skills to prepare for future; 66% say they feel equipped with resources to learn digital skills

As jobs in newer domains soared high in 2021, more than 70% of people chose to upskill to grab new opportunities

The new funding will be deployed to increase iMocha's skill library selection, reach more global enterprises, and widen its partnership base within the HR Tech ecosystem.

Around 368,000 candidates have signed up for The FutureSkills PRIME ecosystem that aims to reskill or upskill 412,000 professionals

A study commissioned by Amazon India in September 2021 revealed that nearly 51 per cent of job-seeking adults wanted to pursue opportunities in industries in which they had negligible or no experience

Virtusa's "Thrive Academy" aims to fulfill this need by providing hands-on exposure and training, a comapny official said

The pandemic contributed to an unprecedented jump in online education

About 50 crore people need to be skilled in the next few years and for that there is a need of lakhs of trainers, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Secretary Ravi Mital said in Friday.

Demand for talent with digital niche and super niche skills has witnessed a surge since the April-June quarter following growth in the digital economy

Training has started in 607 districts across 32 states/Union Territories under the third phase of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) 2020-22, Parliament was informed on Monday.

Edtech sector has witnessed a 90 per cent surge in demand for digital skills amid the pandemic, according to TeamLease Edtech.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a customised crash course programme that aims to skill and upskill over one lakh "Covid warriors" across the country

Why they play: 26% see online games as stress busters, 24% think they are money spinners, one in seven seek to hone key skills and improve cognitive ability