Around 76 Online Job Fairs have been
conducted by National Career Service, NCS during the lockdown Period. Labour
and Employment Ministry said, Online Job Fairs are being organized to bridge
the gap between job aspirants and employers where the complete cycle from job
posting to selection of candidate can be completed on the portal.
It said, NCS has now started offering free online Career
Skills Training in partnership with TCS iON for its registered job-seekers.
This course on soft skills assists the learners in enhancing personality
development with modules on corporate etiquette, improving inter personal
skills, making impactful presentation including other necessary soft skills
demanded by the industry today. The training module is available in Hindi and
English on the NCS portal. The Ministry said, NCS has also taken a number of
other initiatives to mitigate the challenges in the labour market due to
COVID-19 and the consequent lockdown of the economy.
The Ministry is implementing
the NCS Project for transformation of the National Employment Service to
provide a variety of employment related services like job search, career
counselling, information on skill development courses, apprenticeship and
internships through an on-line portal www.ncs.gov.in.
There are around one crore active job seekers and 54 thousand active employers
registered on NCS and around 73 lakh vacancies have been mobilized through the
portal so far. Around one thousand employment exchanges including 200 Model
Career Centers across the country are integrated with NCS.