FICCI-SAMSUNG Centre of Excellence for Career Counselling, Greater NOIDA, UP
FICCI and Ministry of Labour & Employment, Govt. of India have signed up for setting Model Career Centre under National Career Service (NCS) project at Greater NOIDA, UP.
The primary focus of the project is facilitating employment services via portal (www.ncs.gov.in) and provide career related services like career counselling etc via Model Career centre.
Leveraging the Model Career Centre initiative,FICCI and SAMSUNG are setting up India's first Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Career Counselling in Greater NOIDA with strategic partnership of Ministry of Labour & Employment, GoI. The CoE will act as one stop solution and “Discovery Center” that will serve as a platform for addressing all career related needs of the youth and students.
FICCI-Assessment Services
FICCI is designated as the National Level Assessment Body under the Govt. of India’s SDIS-MES programs, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE), NCVT, Ministry of Textiles – Integrated Skills Development Scheme (ISDS), State Skill Development Missions and Third Party Assessments, CED-Gujrat.
Conducted Vocational Skill Assessments in more than 25 states and Certified more than 0.5 Million candidates across various sector under DGET (FY 15-16) this includes Retail, Apparel, Mining, Gems & Jewellry, Hospitality, Electronics, Furniture, Power, Media & Entertainment, Iron & Steel Trade, Construction, Leather, Health Care & Beauty. And we are third party assessment body for leading corporate & CSR projects.
FICCI has successfully delivered more than 5 lakhs assessments till now across 80+districts in 22 states. These assessments were delivered for DGET, CED, Media & Entertainment, Textile, SCPwD and Domestic workers Sector Skill Council.
DFID SFJ program
FICCI in consortium with PwC, NABCONS, and EDI is implementing “Skills for Job” program of Department for International Development (DFID), UK. The program initiated in 2014 to make Indian skills market deliver jobs to the poor in low income states of India by supporting private entrepreneurs deliver skills training while building the skills eco-system with an outcome of increased employment or self-employment opportunities to the poor.
Under the program FICCI along with PwC is providing the following structured Technical Assistance:
Component 1: Facilitating access to credit to trainees
Component 2: Developing 100 entry level Qualification Packs
Component 3: Capacity building of 2 Sector Skills Council (Food Industry Capacity & Skill Initiative & Handicrafts & Carpet. Sector Skill Council)
Component 4: Capacity building and Business Development advisory services to NSDC and NSDC training providers
Component 5: Capacity building Support to 2 State Skills Mission/Corporation (Jharkhand Skill Development Mission Society, Madhya Pradesh State Skill Development Mission)
Apprenticeship
FICCI’s Apprenticeship team works with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) to support them in creating awareness about Apprenticeship Training, especially National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS), and engaging the industry across India. To overcome the challenges faced by the MSDE, the team developed a comprehensive 360-degree communications strategy along with targeted industry engagement plan. Multiple workshops have already been conducted across cities addressing the industry, newspaper advertisement release, social media presence, knowledge products are some of the interventions that have already been implemented.
BRICS Program
FICCI has been nominated as the official Secretariat for all the BRICS activities. FICCI Skills division is leading all the skills related activities of the larger BRICS group including development and release of knowledge papers, organising SDWG workshops, participation & taking delegation to summits/ conferences in other countries. We have also established various task forces such as Task force for Skill development for industry 4.0, taskforce for organising BRICS skill Competitions among others.