IBM,KVTSDC join hands to help Karnataka job-seekers

Karnataka Vocational Training and Skill Development Corporation KVTSDC today said that it has joined hands with IBM to develop a 'Smarter Employability Platform' using the company's mobile and cloud technologies.

Karnataka Vocational Training and Skill Development Corporation KVTSDC today said that it has joined hands with IBM to develop a 8216;Smarter Employability Platform8217; using the company8217;s mobile and cloud technologies.

As part of the project,IBM would create a platform to effectively connect job-seekers and job-providers along with training and certification agencies in employability marketplaces accessible through mobile phones in local and vernacular languages.

Job-seekers would thus be able to find available jobs and apply for the same,while understanding job trends,and also refer opportunities to their friends: all through mobile phones,an IBM official said.

8220;Similarly,job providers can post jobs,increase their reach,find matching candidates,connect with trainers,and track latest trends through mobile phones and web channels,8221; he said.

KVTSDC and IBM signed an MoU for creation of the platform,in the presence of Karnataka Labour Minister B N Bachegowda and Director of IBM Research India amp; Chief Technologist,IBM India/South Asia,Manish Gupta.

The project would leverage technologies from IBM,including 8216;Spoken Web8217;,a voice-based equivalent of the World Wide Web designed to provide information of value to rural and semi-urban people through their mobiles or landlines in local languages.

A mobile crowd-sourcing platform would enable people to offer opportunities to each other,provide referrals,and drive rapid dissemination of available opportunities.

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Moreover,skill-matching techniques would be used to match job-seekers with available jobs while employability analytics would allow employers and the government to understand demand and supply trends.

The employability marketplace would run on the IBM Cloud providing a pay-as-you-go model and elastic scaling.

In the first phase of the proposed project,the platform would be implemented in Mandya and Bijapur districts; it would be expanded to eight more districts of Karnataka in the second phase.