Our Approach

The Mantra for Employability Oriented Training

Smart. Simple. Effective

Making unskilled and underprivileged youth employable through vocational training has been a key agenda of our skilling mission. We effectively partner with both central and state governments to deliver vocational training at the broadest level. Our focus is to create skills to take advantage of the opportunities available across multiple sectors.

Change making projects

Some key government initiatives in which we are making a difference

Pradhan Mantri Kushal Kendra (PMKK)
  • Owns and operates 10 state-of-the-art skill centers
  • Trained 18,515 youth under this scheme
  • Skilled under 29 job roles
  • Placed 8,041 people
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana
  • Centers across 7 states
  • Trained 3871 youth, till date
  • Trainings in 13 sectors
PMKVY Special Project YUVA– Delhi Police
  • Special focus on Delhi Police families
  • Managed 3 centers
  • Trained 824 youth

Vocational Training for Schools and Colleges

Strengthening a young nation

Acquiring vocational skills during education builds a foundation for employability for the individual. Multiplied manifold, it builds the strength of the nation. Centum WorkSkills India (CWSI), an ISO 9001:2015 certified company, is focused on providing employable skills to a broad spectrum of youth both at schools and college level.

Thousands of schools. Lakhs of students.

CWSI is redefining vocational education in schools, from Class 9 onwards by following the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) designed by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) and implemented by respective Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) at the state level; our focus is on holistic skill development that enables a direct transition to the job market.

We have already covered more than 2,000 schools across 21 States/ UTs and trained over 2,00,000 students. Key training interventions are:

Industry-ready Professional College Education: CWSI is currently implementing the UGC approved, NSQF aligned Bachelor in Vocational course (B. Voc.) in 3 colleges in Himachal Pradesh. A professional degree course designed to create industry ready job aspirants currently for the tourism, hospitality and retail sectors.

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

Retooling the workforce

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Through RPL, we help organisations assess, train and upgrade the skill levels of their workforce, within the NSQF framework. Certification of skills, whether acquired formally or informally empowers individuals to monetize them in the job market. Enhancing irreplaceable practical knowledge, we have already trained over 27,000 candidates across 7 sectors in 10 States.

Corporate Skilling Program

Skilling employees. Impacting business

Essential for increasing corporate efficiency and productivity, Centum helps implement key skill training programs for maximum impact. Whether in partnership with organisations like Samahita Social Ventures or Generation India, or initiatives under organizations’ CSR mandate, we deliver a measurable difference.

Hire and Train Solution

Productive from day one

Skilled entry-level manpower is crucial to business, and many corporates have outsourced the entire process of hiring and training to professional skill training organisations. Our pan India network of skill centres prepare training batches of candidates for corporates under various models ready to be productive from day one at client organisations.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Implementing conscience

Many organizations are orienting themselves to be socially responsible corporate citizens and taking up employability focused skilling initiatives. Our CSR arm, Centum Foundation, partners with corporates to conduct programs impacting national issues in the field of skill development, women’s welfare and empowerment, vocational training and health awareness.

Content and Digital Solutions

Creating accessible learning

Engaging training material, that’s relevant and appropriate for the given context creates effective learning. Our content development and digital learning solutions team develop customized content for clients across sectors (including for Sector Skills Councils).

A plethora of solutions

We create improved outcomes through trainer guides, classroom content, e-assessment platforms, digitization of existing content, Learning Management Systems and e-student information systems for blended delivery and much more:

Custom Content Development

Learning Management System

Live Virtual Training Solutions

E-Student Information System

Our Associations