Ep 4: Nurturing Engineering Talent for Future Ready with Jayakumar Balasubramanian from Emertxe
Jayakumar Director for Emertxe which is one of the top-notch IT Finishing School catering to skill development needs of fresh engineers, corporate organizations and working professionals. They are also into Skill India affiliated training partner with a core focus in Embedded Systems a IoT domains. Jayakumar brings with him 12+ years of industry expertise for handling global customers by launching products in consumer, telecom and SMB segments. At Emertxe, Jayakumar is responsible for Strategic Planning, Marketing, and Technology Delivery functions. Time Stamps: 4:02 to 47:59 Few questions I ask Jayakumar on holistic development for engineers as their Vision is to Globally make ‘Life-Easier’ by innovation, technology, and education in multi-disciplinary fields by maintaining high standards of quality is as follows: His background on how he got into from Engineering background to Entrepreneurial Journey. What made him make this shift? What is the LaD landscape for Fresh Engineers | Corporate organizations | Working professionals at Emertxe? How are you catering each one in a different approach…are you saying that their learning needs a goals are different? And can you explain how? Over the years you have trained over 60,000+ students who are hired by their 366+ placement partners. How Emertxe has made a difference to Students in building a great career? How do you build that awareness for students and promote career counseling and it’s also important to provide the role models or mentors…who can guide them in the journey as well? How is their first Journey a post academics: What do engineers look for, I sense it is important how this start will be a key decision for them to make a right career) How does your organization help to kickstart this long journey? We also see that around 1.5 million engineers passing out of college, a only hardly 7% have employable skills? like you already looked at the problem statement So, how has Emertxe looked at this problem statement and have you explored for any solution on this employment issue? With the rapid change in technologies, it is crucial that we ensure that the training is contemporary and relevant. Is Emertxe moving at this speed of the industry in hiring context in terms of better hiring conversion? Emertxe also focuses on strong continuous learning and it is very important to adapt to changing work demand. So, how is Emertxe supporting Corporate organizations a Working professionals in Continuous Learning? How do you enable the professionals to adapt to the changes, learn and you know and is it good to move between the stack of technologies? What is your deep experience of the Role of technology in learning? You may know there could be any challenges, anything on online learning? what is the right path? Emertxe - Best Training Institute of the Year 2017 and what was it like for you? You have been Presented the talk titled "Demystifying IoT skills organized by Electronics for You? can you share broadly what it is about? "Powerful question" to my guest to unveil for my listeners. to engage, enlighten and empower (a that’s the mission of my podcast too) Time stamp at 48:01 to 56:29 According to you, what is the “STAR” moment? What “inspires you” to do everything that you do If you owned the company, what’s one thing you would do differently in learning? What are the three most important things you would like to accomplish right now? if I may ask you…..What are your strengths What’s the best book you’ve read this year? or anytime you recommend for my listeners. What are the characteristics of the best boss role models or mentors/coach you ever had? What made that person great? Are there any tools that you use on a daily basis to be a better you? Resources mentioned in this episode: Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone by Satya Nadella Amul's India 3.0: Based on 50 Years of Amul Advertising by Verghese Kurian Aachii Masala – Founder Google Keep Connect with Jayakumar @ Email ID is: b.jayakumar@gmail.com Blog URL is: http://jwritings.in Company URL: http://www.emertxe.com We love your recommendations! If you have any recommendation on the topic you like us to cover or any leaders who you want me to interview…Please drop a line in the comment section. Please visit www.prajvitaknowledge.com/podcast for complete show notes of this episode. For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Jyothi G at LinkedIn or email @ prajvitapro@gmail.com Like us? Rate a Review us! Please do show us your love by subscribing to this channel in iTunes, or any other podcast platforms and do add it your favorite’s list! Also, your feedback is definitely a feedforward a your ratings help us build more credibility and attract new listeners. Hence please leave your comment and review as this will definitely ease me to keep making these shows better for you : ) Follow the Stars of Learning on Facebook Twitter Instagram