Colleges & Universities

iPRIMED, through its innovative methodology helps complement the academic skills acquired by students while at learning institutions and makes them industry ready. This is accomplished in multiple ways:

Long Term Interventions

1. Starting a “workplace skills” department in the college. This is a big change for the college/institution and has to be handled delicately leveraging the principles of organizational change management
   • Workplace skills to be rolled out as a subject to be taught and participation to be made mandatory like other subjects.
   • Minimum of 40 hours per semester, starting from second semester onwards
   • Workplace skills facilitators to sit full time in the institutions; follow the college calendars including holidays/vacations – this helps drive the change within the college
2. Re architecting the “operating model” of a college based on international bench marks (e.g. MBNQA model) to enhance performance.

Short Term Interventions

1. Building a skills baseline for Final year students: This is done leveraging iPAT:
   • The baseline helps the institution know its overall capability on “ workplace readiness of its students”
   • Each student individually knows where she/he stands on “workplace readiness” and how it compares with his/her college/state/national baseline
2. 8th semester project (for the Computer Science/IS/IT stream) to be conducted at iPRIMED, for students in small batches , wherein the students will learn to orient themselves for the corporate world while executing the project
   • Introduce an integrated concept of process and core (behavioral) skills in the final semester project. The students will execute the project using complete development life cycle and learn the core skills required/expected by Corporates in that process. This will be conducted in a simulated corporate environment where professionalism, team work, communication are taught/practiced through their work; hence aiding the overall personality development.
   • Evaluate the strengths and gaps. Introduce a feedback mechanism to strengthen the strengths and improve the gaps over one semester
3. Faculty Enablement programs: This will help upgrade Faculty skills to enhance their facilitation skills and knowledge in line with the following objectives:
   • Increased understanding of IT & ITeS industry
   • Work along with the students on Industry requirements making them more industry ready

How Does Process Work?

1. Step 1 - Institutions sign an MoU with iPRIMED to agree upon the areas of collaboration
2. Step 2 - iPRIMED engages with the college, interacts with the students, assesses them, enables them and provides them access to a pool of employers. iPRIMED also works with the College faculty members to enhance their skills in order to make them more ready
3. Step 3 - Employers select candidates, post their interviews
4. Step 4 - iPRIMED notifies institutions of the placements, consolidates the learnings and re starts the cycle