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Disrupting Unemployment

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      • LEAP Mentorship and Coaching Development Programme
      • Leveraging Unique Talents of People with Autism
      • Lifelong Learning Apprenticeship
      • Linking Postgraduate Students with Job Opportunities
      • Localizing a Business Process Outsourcing Industry
    • M-P
      • Made in Italy
      • Management Trainee Programme
      • Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA)
      • National Industrial Training Institute
      • National Youth Policy 2014
      • Nayee Disha (“New Direction”)
      • Nestlé needs YOUth
      • Networking Academy
      • Pan African Graduate Development Programme
      • Partnership for Economic Opportunities through Technology in the Americas (POETA)
      • PepsiCo México Foundation
      • Project Business
      • Prominp
    • R-T
      • REACH Project
      • Satya Bharti School Programme
      • Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center
      • Save the Children and Accenture
      • Sino-German Automotive Vocational Education Project
      • Skills to Succeed Academy
      • Solutions for Youth Employment Coalition (S4YE)
      • StartUp Europe
      • StreetWise Partners Career Ventures Programme
      • Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise Programme (STRYDE)
      • Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards
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      • Teacher Support Programme
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  • Preface
  • Case Studies
    • 2020 Legacy of Good Plan
    • 5by20
    • A-B
      • Activate
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC)
      • Born to Be
      • Bridge Academy London
      • Buen Trabajo (“Good Job”)
    • C-E
      • Centum Learning
      • Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
      • Coletivo
      • Dangote Academy of Learning and Development
      • Digital Jobs Africa
      • Dual Vocational Education and Training Programme
      • Enterprise Gardens
      • Entrepreneurship Mindset Index
      • Escola Escritório Programme
      • [email protected]
    • F-I
      • facealemploi.tv
      • Fast Start
      • Foundation Programme
      • Future Leaders Programme
      • Generation (Social Initiative)
      • Global Education Initiative – STEM Brazil Learning Programme
      • Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project
      • Global Internship Programme for Unemployed Youth
      • Google for Entrepreneurs
      • Helping Women Get Online
      • Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Skills Development Corporation
      • Internship Programme
      • It’s TYME and Unlocking Youth Potential (UYP)
    • J-L
      • JOBLINGE
      • Junior Achievement and Marsh & McLennan Companies
      • Junior Power
      • Juntos por el Empleo de los Mas Vulnerable (“Together for Employment for the Most Vulnerable”)
      • LEAP Mentorship and Coaching Development Programme
      • Leveraging Unique Talents of People with Autism
      • Lifelong Learning Apprenticeship
      • Linking Postgraduate Students with Job Opportunities
      • Localizing a Business Process Outsourcing Industry
    • M-P
      • Made in Italy
      • Management Trainee Programme
      • Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA)
      • National Industrial Training Institute
      • National Youth Policy 2014
      • Nayee Disha (“New Direction”)
      • Nestlé needs YOUth
      • Networking Academy
      • Pan African Graduate Development Programme
      • Partnership for Economic Opportunities through Technology in the Americas (POETA)
      • PepsiCo México Foundation
      • Project Business
      • Prominp
    • R-T
      • REACH Project
      • Satya Bharti School Programme
      • Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center
      • Save the Children and Accenture
      • Sino-German Automotive Vocational Education Project
      • Skills to Succeed Academy
      • Solutions for Youth Employment Coalition (S4YE)
      • StartUp Europe
      • StreetWise Partners Career Ventures Programme
      • Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise Programme (STRYDE)
      • Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards
      • TEACH Ambassadors
      • Teacher Support Programme
      • Think Forward
      • Tshepo 10 000 (“Hope”)
    • U-Z
      • Udaan Programme
      • Upstream Professional Development Center
      • Vocational Training Cooperation
      • Women Development Programme
      • Women Employment Organization
      • Young Entrepreneurs Incubation Programme and Business Skills Development Programme
      • Youth Business International
      • Youth Employment Accelerator
      • Youth Unemployment Initiative
      • YouthActionNet

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Key Partners

 

Status

Start year of the initiative:
2012 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
Regional expansion and modification of scope: Programme is scheduled to be replicated in other states and will increase future intervention to boost candidate engagement and reduce dropout rate.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
India

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
Approximately 700 beneficiaries

  

 

Time to intended impact:

Less than 2 years

 

Metrics:

  • Employee engagement
  • Workforce productivity

Benefit to organization: 

  • Direct benefit to organization
  • Indirect benefit to organization

Key Partners

 

Status

Start year of the initiative:
2012 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
Regional expansion and modification of scope: Programme is scheduled to be replicated in other states and will increase future intervention to boost candidate engagement and reduce dropout rate.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
India

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
Approximately 700 beneficiaries

  

 

Time to intended impact:

Less than 2 years

 

Metrics:

  • Employee engagement
  • Workforce productivity

Benefit to organization: 

  • Direct benefit to organization
  • Indirect benefit to organization

Udaan Programme

Submitted by Accenture

Objective

To provide educated youth in India’s Jammu and Kashmir with skills training to give corporate India with exposure to the rich talent pool available in the state.

Overview and Main Activities

This programme provides skills and employment in high-growth sectors to approximately 5,000 youth from Jammu and Kashmir over a five-year period. Accenture selects students, provides training and places them either within Accenture or in another organization, or enables them to become entrepreneurs.

The programme is part of the government’s Udaan initiative, which addresses socio-economic development by helping young people acquire the necessary skills to work in the corporate world, particularly the business process outsourcing industry. Other partners include the NSDC.

To deliver the programme, Accenture provides management consulting services to create training that blends traditional, classroom-based instruction with on-the-job training. Accenture also collaborates with external agencies to leverage expertise and presence in the state. The overall scope of work for this project includes mobilization, training, placement, infrastructure and logistics.

Accenture supports the programme in the following ways:

  • Institutional and community-based ‘drives’ conducted each month, such as promotional marketing initiatives using radio, TV, print newspaper and social media
  • Orientation for candidates and parents about training benefits, career growth and personal safety
  • Candidate pre-screening and selection
  • Mobilization of selected candidates from Jammu and Kashmir to training locations in Bangalore and the National Capital Region
  • Curriculum review and creation that focuses on hands-on practice sessions and includes for example soft skills and communications skills, campus-to-corporate orientation, customer service, sales process and negotiation, and MS Office and SAP
  • Collaboration with external vendors to impart training
  • Interview practice and feedback to help trainees improve and make them “job ready”
  • Provision of various placement opportunities within Accenture and/or other organizations for candidates who complete the training
  • Tracking of candidates for three to six months after completion of training

Success Factors and Challenges

Most critical success factors:

  • Adopting a precise and rigorous candidate selection process
  • Formulating a methodical plan that included requirement gathering from state universities, government officials, local skilling agencies, and other stakeholders; and a comprehensive mobilization and awareness drive that included partnerships with parent and student orientation and counselling sessions

Main challenges:

  • Limited exposure available to the youth of the state
  • Moving the talent pool out of the valley and exposing them to available lucrative commercial opportunities
  • Under-utilized talent pool

Recommendations for Others

Conduct a requirements gathering exercise before starting with the mobilization process; the focus should be on mobilizing the youth and preparing them to enter the corporate world rather than recruitment. The team should adopt a scientific approach by first assessing the existing skill levels of the students and then building a customized training curriculum that blends traditional, classroom-based instruction with on-the-job training. The implementing team should also periodically introduce much-needed fun elements into the curriculum, such as team-building and bonding activities to make the programme interesting as well as outcome driven.

Replicability and Scalability

How easily could other organizations implement this initiative?
Easy

How easily can this initiative be expanded to include a larger number of participants?
Easy

About the Organization

Website: www.accenture.com
Sector: Professional Services
Size (number of employees): 100,000+
Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland

For Further Engagement

Contact name: Siddharth Sibal
Contact position: Programme Manager at Accenture
Email: [email protected]

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