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India has witnessed significant changes in the year 2014 as the economy started its journey on the road of development. With Government’s focus towards both job generation and skill development, the country’s move to reap the “Demographic Dividend” by 2020 has begun with confident steps. With the transformation in employment exchanges, and the emphasis being laid on job creation and entrepreneurship, there is the need of a joint effort from various stakeholders in the skill landscape to implement these plans.

India Skills Report is an endeavour to combine data collected from the supply and demand side to form the basis of effective collaboration between the two ends of the Talent Supply chain. On one hand, it aims to equip the talent pool with information to access the jobs in the market, on the other, to provide the employers access to the skill reservoir of the country. You can check insights of last year’s ISR 2014 report.

India has one the largest employable population in the world. However, in the glitz and glamour of these numbers, one often chooses to ignore that in today’s era of knowledge based economy, quality of workforce is more important than quantity. India is rushing towards a manpower situation whose larger portion is unemployable and this is one of the biggest challenges that we as a nation are ever going to face. 

Sincere efforts to ensure partnership between the source of skills and their destination are a must. Hence, it is imperative to educate them about each other’s expectations so that informed plans for future can be prepared. This report is an effort towards that goal. It captures the skill levels of the supply side and needs of the demand side of Talent Supply Chain. You can check insights from ISR 2015 report.