Profile building platform: Marks don’t matter for a dream job but your ‘profile’ does

Constructing profitable profiles: CareerLabs co-founders (L-R) PN Santosh, Prasanna Alagesan and Kritikha Srinivasan

Bengaluru-based CareerLabs, based by the ex-leadership crew of Byju’s helps college students put together for his or her skilled life past school within the post-Covid digital-first world by its profile-building technique platform. Often practised by skilled working professionals, the crew at CareerLabs is making this technique accessible to college students pursuing their graduate levels, and guiding them on the best way to construct an organised and well-strategised profile that can catapult them to a better skilled progress trajectory. With its modern CareerWizard and Profile-Constructing platforms, CareerLabs has guided greater than 200,000 college students within the final two years.

“Actually we’ve launched scholarships value Rs 2 crore for few of our programmes to assist college students throughout these Covid occasions and this has helped a lot of college students from tier 2 and tier 3 cities who’re coming from economically deprived backgrounds throughout these difficult occasions. This has created a big impact on their lives,” says Prasanna Alagesan, co-founder, CareerLabs.

The primary theme of among the workshops that CareerLabs does with the coed neighborhood as of late revolve round Covid influence on placements and better training. CareerLabs additionally conducts panel discussions for coaching and placement officers with HR and expertise acquisition leaders of corporations to assist them perceive the brand new recruitment norms in Covid occasions, newest applied sciences for which freshers are getting recruited and in addition on the best way to prepare college students for the brand new recruitment course of.

Take for example, Dimple, a 21-year-old scholar of Bharath College, Chennai, who wished to develop into an aerospace engineer. CareerLabs crew satisfied her to pursue a sensible internship in digital design of aerospace parts at Kaashiv Infotech, moderately than limiting herself to theoretical studying. Regardless of the pandemic, she upskilled herself by studying structural stress engineering utilizing CATIA V5, and used her new expertise to design a 320-seater lengthy vary plane for her final-year challenge. As we speak, she is doing her masters in aerospace engineerring from Arizona State College.

A objective and not using a plan is only a want. Not all college students perceive the significance of investing effort and time into constructing their profile as a strategy to obtain their objectives. CareerLabs’ multi-pronged technique of profile-building consists of profession discovery, which is supported by knowledge insights in addition to mentoring classes tailor-made to information the coed. This results in the subsequent stage— skilling— probably the most essential side of the journey. The abilities transcend theoretical examine and permit college students to realize hands-on expertise on sensible initiatives, internships, and papers, earlier than main them to the ultimate stage of preparation for recruitment or greater research.

“The profile constructing journey is a yearlong journey,” says PN Santosh, co-founder, CareerLabs. “Many of the school college students require hand-holding throughout these Covid occasions until they get into a great grasp program or the best profession path. That is what the profile constructing journey is all about (not like every other upskilling programmes)— assist college students establish the best path, upskill them, coach them by trade mentors, assist them take part in hackathons/ workshops/ internships, present the final touch by our ending faculty and at last assist them get into dream jobs / masters programmes. We have now had nice success tales from our cohort of scholars and it has dramatically elevated so much throughout these Covid occasions,” he provides.

Madhuri Ravishankar’s success story is one other feather in CareerLabs’ cap. She aspired to check chemical engineering, and went on to decide on an undergraduate programme in chemical engineering at SRM College. Nonetheless, a objective wants a plan and fixed steerage. The CareerLabs crew’s steerage helped Madhuri in figuring out alternatives to work with eminent professors from IIT Madras to sharpen her expertise in high quality by design and nanotechnology. She went on to publish three analysis papers, pursued additional internships at IIT Madras, and went on to get a great rating of 315 on the GRE. Consequently, she has succeeded in securing admission to the College of Pennsylvania and College of California San Diego, and is awaiting a scholarship affirmation from Aga Khan Basis. All of this was made attainable for Madhuri due to the steerage and validation she acquired from the crew of mentors at CareerLabs.

Impressed by the concept of self-reliance and ability growth, the crew at CareerLabs believes that serving to school college students to develop their profile could be probably the most sustainable strategy to bettering the general employability of youth within the nation. “India’s imaginative and prescient of ‘Make in India’ resulting in Aatmanirbhar Bharat generally is a actuality provided that India leverages its demographic dividend. With CareerLabs, we strongly intend to bridge this demand-supply hole and allow a million college students to study and earn higher by offering everybody an opportunity to realize a profitable profession, thereby, making a motivated workforce.” provides Santosh.

The idea of profile-building is a recent manner of approaching placement preparation for college students and has been very well-received by college students and better training institutes. Within the first 12 months of operations, the 100-member crew of CareerLabs reached out to a couple of lakh college students. Of those, over 30,000 college students actively participated within the profile constructing journey and greater than 3000 paid subscribers signed up for the profile constructing providers and programs. The corporate has clocked greater than $1.5 million in income since its inception, and is on a mission to allow 1 million college students to study and earn higher.

In April, CareerLabs raised $2.2 million in Pre-Sequence A funding from Rocket Web’s VC fund International Founders Capital and different influential angel buyers to scale its platform. The startup strives to make its merchandise accessible and inexpensive to varsity college students throughout India, together with Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. Within the close to future, the model will attain out to greater than 1000 schools, providing greater than 600,000 college students the chance to find their dream careers by its AI-enhanced profession discovery engine, CareerWizard.