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LEARNING AND GAINING NEW SKILLS MADE EASY

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ducation is the key to success in your chosen career path, and there are plenty of ways to gain the credentials you need. While most people will continue to pursue standard educational options for credentials and certifications, many other individuals strive for a fast track to a career through certification.

A certification program lets employers know that you have the skills necessary to perform at a high level for their company. It confirms that you have what it takes to get the job done. Certifications are also a great way for students to stand out from the crowd when applying for a job, internship, and even during their post-graduation. Many employers are using certification programs to screen their candidates and give more weight to applications from certified professionals.

There are people who wonder on a daily basis whether certification is worth the time, effort, and cost. And an increasing amount of people are answering yes to this question every day. As a matter of

fact, over the last couple of years, training for and acquiring certifications has had a steady incline.

The job market is getting tougher and the competition for getting jobs is growing. Companies are looking for individuals who are highly skilled and knowledgeable about the latest trends in their industry. While everyone can get a job without certification, having a certification or credential on one's resume also makes one more marketable.

Companies know that professionals who have the certifications for their particular industry are likely to be proficient due to the commitment to acquiring them. This has led to an increase in certifications and other professional organizations that could help train people in specialized fields of study or work.

Learning a new skill, changing the career, or staying in line with the industry, there are plenty of organizations and institutions issuing certifications. In fact, some organizations have developed certification exams for their

members and clients. Studying for a certification exam requires time, effort, and money, however, which organization you choose to serve your best interest is an important decision.

The Knowledge Review answers the same question in this inspiring edition, The Most Trusted Training & Certification Providers, 2021 that are helping individuals to gain skills across the diverse sections of the education world and breathe a new life into their professional careers. T R

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Skills that Matter!

Why training and certification courses are important for landing a skill-based job in the market

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Learn to Upskill The Changing Face of Training and Certification

22 ISM UNIV Preparing Industry-ready Tech Wizards

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Indian Cyber Security

www.indiancyber securitysolutions.com

Indian Cyber Security Solutions is an Enterprise Cyber Security Platforms company with two verticals

INDIAN SERVICE MACHINE

www.ismuniv.com

It is a premier institution which has trained over 7000+ engineers on embedded systems and other software engineering courses

Inspirus Education

www.inspiruseducation.com

Inspirus is India’s premier test preparation and admission counseling institute

Nex-G Exuberant Solutions Pvt Ltd.

www.exuberantsolutions.com

The company offers training in next-genration wireless technologies, industrial IOT, network application, mobile apps, and so on

www.shrishtirobotics.com

The company is committed to enrich tech aspirants with certied internship programmes on robotics engineering, product development, industrial automation, and so on

Srishti Robotics Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Mr Abhishek Mitra Founder and CEO

Indian Cyber

Security Solutions Training the Next Generation Guardians of the Cyber Space 8 | December 2021 | www.theknowledgereview.com

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owards the end of 2010, the demand for cybersecurity services across the globe was growing significantly. Due to lack of awareness and proper planning, most organizations fell prey to malicious cyberattacks and data breaches which resulted in huge losses for these organizations monetarily.

This was the time when Mr Abhishek Mitra and his team initiated a plan to setup their organization and share their precious knowledge to bridge the gap which the industry was facing back then. Thus, Indian Cyber Security Solutions (ICSS) was established in 2013 as a unit of Green Fellow IT Security Solutions Pvt. Ltd., as an organization to fulfil the needs and demands of technologyoriented support and cyber protection across the world.

In the beginning, ICSS was solely focused on providing cyber-security services to its clients by providing all sorts of solutions and protecting them from the manifold cyberattacks they were exposed to in their day-to-day activities.

But as the days went by, the company began sharing its knowledge and expertise by conducting training programs in the field of cyber-security and risk management.

ICSS has set up an aim to provide the necessary protection to corporate agencies and organizations simultaneously providing education and awareness among individuals who have a keen interest in gaining knowledge and expertise in the field of cybersecurity

Mission and Vision If you observe the current situation in India, the use of smartphones and other digital equipment are doubling in numbers every year. With the introduction of programmes such as “Digital India” it was observed that there was a sharp rise in the number of cyber breaches in India. Due to this many foreign and domestic multinationals started allocating a huge share of their investment for cybersecurity in India.

With this advantage, ICSS has set up an aim to provide the necessary protection to corporate agencies and organizations, simultaneously providing education and awareness among individuals who have a keen interest in gaining knowledge and expertise in the field of cybersecurity.

With this broad vision in sight, the company is striving forward leaving no stone unturned to organize the bottom for a secure cyber world in order that the succeeding generation is free from the scourge of cybercrime and criminals.

“Our vision also encompasses dispersing the notice of cybercrime, its security as we believe that it is due to ignorance and negligence that cyber security has undergone a shattering blow within the present IT world scenario,” commented the Founder and CEO, Mr Abhishek Mitra.

Training Tech Wizards

In a nutshell, ICSS’ main mission is to make sure that your data remains absolutely protected, safe and barren from any Mr Abhishek Mitra unauthorized access from hackers and/or intruders. The Founder and CEO vision lies not only in guarding against the safety concerns of those highly technically oriented companies but also in making India, rather Digital India to be more precise, hackproof by its constant endeavours.

ICSS has always delivered a unique approach while training individuals by using methods such as students getting trained by trainers who are industry experts, hands-on training with separate lab sessions, live projects where the skills are being tested at an extreme level, an interaction

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with industry professionals, placement assistance programs where a student will be assisted so that he or she can crack a job interview. On the other hand, that student is also offered an internship program where he or she can serve ICSS as an intern and get a chance to earn a certificate. This greatly helps the individual to gain experience, expertise, and confidence before joining a multinational.

The Academic Offerings ICSS’ courses have been categorized into several parts, starting from diploma course where various types of diplomas are offered, such as – diploma in cybersecurity, diploma in machine learning, diploma in advanced cybersecurity, diploma in network security, diploma in web security, diploma in advanced cloud and networking, diploma in cloud infrastructure management. Different nondiploma courses like SOC analyst, ethical hacking professional, pen-testing, CISSP training, bug bounty training, CCNA and CCNP, python, machine learning, data science, and cloud computing with Azure and AWS. ICSS provides both online and offline training where sessions are recorded and uploaded online on the web for students and can be accessed for a lifetime. These recorded sessions and other Q&A sessions arranged by ICSS helps an individual greatly while tackling difficulties regarding the particular topic and brings out the best in them.

Providing the Best Facilities for Training ICSS provides hands-on practice to its trainees with 100% lab-based classes, as it believes that knowledge is key to everything but that can only be gained with the practicality of a given situation. Individuals can take the advantage of an education loan at a 0% interest rate. A 25% scholarship is also recommended to students who have acquired 90% or above marks in board exams. Training is done by industry experts with at least five years of hands-on experience with lifetime access to video tutorials and online and offline recorded sessions.

Indian Cyber Security Solutions, from its foundation, has been nominated and won several business and educational credits, one the most notable ones being the ‘10 Most Promising Cyber Security Training Institutes – 2020’.

The Astute Leader The organization was founded by Mr Abhishek Mitra, who is currently the CEO, with around 8-10 years of experience under his belt in the field of cyber security and threat scrutiny. He has around 5-10 years of experience working with different cyber-crime departments, including the cyber-cell Kolkata (India) in solving cyber threats. Currently, along with being listed in the Business Insider as one the most influential businessmen in India, Mr Mitra has been covered in several news channels across the country.

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His corporate journey was given coverage by ‘Startup India 2021’.

Under his guidance, ICSS has not only survived but faced the least resistance during the Covid-19 pandemic, as he has never shied away from any kind of opportunity. His dedication and ideas can be traced by the tool made by his team named Margdarshak which was found effective while protecting ICSS from phishing attacks.

Enduring Hardships Since the beginning of the pandemic, ICSS has seen a lot of ups and downs. But when it comes to daily duties, it has guided itself with the right approach by following the guidelines given by the government, by taking the isolation seriously, and by conducting its daily activities virtually including the training programmes.

When asked about the challenges faced by ICSS, Mr Mitra replied, “We faced challenges when our students were unwilling to continue online classes. We had to convince them with one-to-one sessions which helped them greatly for which we applaud the trainers who made it happen. In today’s date, it’s nothing new to have work done virtually thanks to seamless internet connectivity.”

Aspiring for a Bright Future ICSS is currently located in Bengaluru and Kolkata, where they can conduct offline as well as online classes for individuals from the rest of the cities. The institute is currently open only for online sessions, where the faculty are also targeting to set up their centres post-pandemic, and by doing so, they are expecting to deliver their best educational resources to the masses.

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The Most Trusted Training & Certification Providers, 2021

Developing the Next Generation of Industry-ready Professionals n 2013, Ms. Bakhtawar Krishnan joined a Mumbai-based international education test-prep company as Partner. By 2017, she had acquired the business and Inspirus Education was born and shaped into one of Mumbai’s premier centres for international education counselling, test-prep, and advisory.

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From a purely US-centric institute in the early 2000s, today, Inspirus students are excelling in universities across Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, UK, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Australia and recently even India, besides the length and breadth of the United States.

With a clear vision to be a studentcentric institution and not a commission agent, Bakhtawar ensured that Inspirus was founded on the strong principles of making quality higher education accessible to every deserving child. It meant widening the horizon of targeted universities, understanding evolving industry needs and relevant course curricula, working with schools, parents and students to prepare for a changing global workplace, and most of all, planning the blueprint of an inclusive institute. It also meant building a team of like-minded professionals, investing in training and adapting to a tech-based outlook and infrastructure.

Its reach has grown beyond the three centres in Mumbai to centres across three cities in India. Inspirus was the first to create a footprint in Assam and more recently a branch in Pune city is making in-person counselling also a possibility for students of this education hub. Most recently, Inspirus has just finalised opening a centre in Indore.

In the last 8 years, Inspirus’ growth has not just been defined by an exponential increase in student placements across international universities but also by its evolution as one of India’s most trusted higher education counselling institutes.

With its vision clearly set on reaching larger number of students and schools across India, especially in tier II cities, Inspirus had set course on a digital transformation journey early. The pandemic only accelerated the process and ensured that Inspirus’ students did not suffer due to the changed circumstances.

“A unique digital student-classroom management system, designed exclusively by the Inspirus team was ready for roll-out almost as soon as the lockdown was announced,” said the

Founder-Director of Inspirus Education – Bakhtawar Krishnan.

“Since it was designed by our team, teacher training and student learning challenges have not been roadblocks and early adoption of the system has kept our students a step ahead of the rest,” she added.

Shareable digital documents, tests, concept books and work books and online quizzes are just some of the tools the students at Inspirus work with. The institution noticed a push towards integrating audio-visual and digital aid in teaching and learning on platforms such as zoom and google meet, and integrated the same into its own ‘iSMS’ program.

The Central Idea An organisation must have its heart and soul in place, and that thought must permeate across departments.

While value generation is the prime responsibility of any organisation, for an education-based company like Inspirus, creating value through human capital is a critical priority.

Vision: “We focus on education as a medium to inspire young minds to explore and discover their best selves and achieve amazing things. We are passionate about our business, and work closely

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with all stakeholders and draft out individualized solutions for all your study abroad dreams.”

Mission and Philosophy: Thrill, don’t just fulfil!

Act with integrity.

Constantly Evolve.

Constantly Innovate.

Remain Childlike - always willing to learn!

Bolstering Careers “Profile building is a professional art which is at the core of Inspirus’ counselling process for Bachelors, Masters, and PhD admissions. When to start a particular extra-curricular activity? In which school or college year and how to get involved in a summer or winter program? When and how to get a good internship? Which in-school co-curricular activities and out-of-school community service programs to partake in? Which academic activities provide the best value for a successful career and for admissions? When to calendar these activities in a school or college year?

Some of these questions are constantly asked and discussed with each student, thereby creating a comprehensive roadmap for the student, which the students themselves develop while counselling team guides, much like a parent with their new-born child,” said the VP Business Development of Inspirus – Abhinav Gogoi.

What connects all of these questions in today’s world is tech-driven creative solutions, which forms the core of Inspirus’ philosophy. This in turn enhances the student's involvement in these activities thereby improving their skill, make them more enterprising to find solutions to problems on their own and importantly as well in building a strong CV.

In the last 8 years, Inspirus’ growth has not just been defined by an exponential increase in student placements across international universities but also by its evolution as one of India’s most trusted higher education counselling institutes

Ms. Bakhtawar Krishnan Founder-Director

tests, in global universities, with a keen focus on individual learning abilities.

To ensure that Inspirus always has the best to offer its students in terms of mentorship, the team undergoes regular training to keep abreast with evolving counselling and academicsoriented approaches and methodologies.

Sanjay-Agarwal VP Operations The Academic Rollout Unlike other similar institutions, Inspirus Education is an independent counselling centre that aims to help students achieve their study abroad dreams in the top globally ranked universities. They provide the necessary coaching and guidance to do well in multiple aptitude tests. Ÿ Coaching for SAT, ACT, PSAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, LNAT, UCAT, CLAT, IELTS, and TOEFL Ÿ Classroom as well as live, online coaching Ÿ Unbiased Counselling for UG, MS, MiM, MBA and PhD programs Ÿ Official coaching partner of premier schools in India for SAT, PSAT, and CLAT Ÿ Renowned for personalized touch in all programs Inspirus helps students identify the right path and subject strengths before preparing them to walk that path with self-belief, confidence, positivity, and an open mind. The team helps students prepare for UG and PG admission

Standing Apart Inspirus is committed to be student-centric and that means the team works with each child at an individual level post understanding their respective strengths and weaknesses. Its focus on counselling ensures that children are not just prepared to face the required admissions test each university stresses upon, but that they are prepared to face the challenge of a different learningteaching approach that international universities adopt.

Looking at the large number of students keen on applying to international universities, Inspirus has designed unique models that work with schools to build in-house strengths and programs to prepare students at the middle and high school level itself.

“Our vast alumni network work like cohorts keeping us abreast with the evolving needs of industry and the corresponding academic changes across faculties in global universities.

It is to our advantage that this network remains eagerly connected with our counsellors and founder, ever willing to mentor the incoming student base,” remarked Ms. Bhaktawar Krishnan.

The Inspiring Chief Bakhtawar Krishnan, Founder and

Director of Inspirus Education, set the foundation of this institute after a two-and-a-half decade long corporate career, helming the top job first as a banker and then as a ‘Global Head’ of human resources for a leading consulting firm.

This first-time entrepreneur, sharpened her skills on ground, building a network with international universities and understanding the need gaps that students would have to bridge on campus through regular visits to university campuses. On the other hand, she regularly engages with leading schools across Indian cities, conducting workshops with parents, students and teachers to help them align with international teachinglearning methodologies. She works closely with heads of schools to design in-school programs that help prepare students early.

Bakhtawar’s ‘people first’ attitude is what has made Inspirus the best training ground for teachers and counsellors wanting to build a career in this field. This helps Inspirus attract some of the best minds in the industry and add value to its innovation led thinking.

Noteworthy Achievements Some of the noteworthy achievements that Inspirus Education has amassed over the years are: Ÿ 9000+ students from all over India, Middle-East and South-East Asia, have been placed in prestigious institutes of higher education, across the globe. Ÿ 10% of the students are placed in the ‘Top 10’ universities Ÿ 50% of the students are placed in ‘Top 50’ universities Ÿ 90% of the students are placed in ‘Top 100’ universities Ÿ Rs. 94 Cr worth of scholarships in

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the last two years India’s first 340/340 in GRE is an Inspirus student.

Nevertheless, the most decorated accomplishment of this institute is the growing number of high scores and top admits. Ÿ

The EdTech Implementation “Recently, Inspirus has fully integrated live online mode of learning and counselling and, to that end, adapted and developed their own digital student and classroom management system within their existing CRM - ‘iSMS’.

This system facilitates a tonne of resourceful material such as shareable digital documents, tests, concept books, and work books and online quizzes. Push towards integrating audio-visual and digital aid in teaching and learning on platforms such as zoom and google meet which have been integrated into our the institute’s iSMS,” says Sanjay Agarwal, VP Operations.

Scaling the Future Going ahead, Inspirus Education wishes to continue in the same fashion with its core values, mission, and philosophy intact. The only change it wants to bring is to constantly evolve into the digital medium for AIsupported training in its live classes as well as create a reliable and smooth user-interface for counselling sessions.

“We are launching Inspirus India soon catering to profile building, career consultancy and admissions to top universities in India. We are also investing time and effort in building infrastructure and training personnel to cater to an increase in annual student numbers to 3000 next year and 27000 in the next four years,” concluded the astute leader of Inspirus, Ms. Bakhtawar Krishnan.

We focus on education as a medium to inspire young minds to explore and discover their best selves and achieve amazing things

Abhinav Gogoi VP Business Development

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Skills that Matter!

Why training and certification courses

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rganisations and companies are looking for skillbased employees. The changing needs of businesses have created a rift between the education provided by schools and training and certification courses provided by the schools. Both education and skills are required in today's highly competitive world to land a job.

Schools impart informal education that is essential for living, whereas training and certification courses help the students in developing skills. These are both equally important for the complete development of students that helps in landing a job. But why have training and certification courses become necessary for landing a job in the modern world?

Well, let us have a brief look, why training and certification courses became an essential thing for landing skill-based jobs in this modern world. · Fast-Changing Market The market is changing fast, and to keep up with the pace of the market, it has become essential for the employees to develop a particular skill. Earlier, companies focused on employees who could handle multiple tasks. For example, an advertising agency would hire a designer who would design and focus on copies and other elements responsible for the advertisement. However, today the market has changed, and an advertising agency would likely hire a

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designer only responsible for design and a copywriter responsible only for copies.

This change in the market increased the productivity of the employees and required one skill trade needed for the job.

This strategic approach was created by training and certification courses because they focused on only one trade rather than one whole element of the industry. · The emergence of the Internet and Social Media The emergence of the Internet and social media has changed the job structure in India. The new and developing industry is changing the needs of businesses in the modern era. Jobs driven by skills are the need of the hour in the IT Sector. Along with that, social media is not the same as it was a few years back. The arrival of businesses on platforms completely changed the industry and how it is seen today.

training and certification courses providers who prepare jobseekers for skill-based jobs that this fast-changing world is demanding. · New Emerging Jobs in the Society The rise of technology has cut the labour cost for many companies across the world. In the future, some of the jobs that we see today might not even be in the market.

However, with the increase in technology, new jobs will emerge that will be completely based on skills.

Today, the change in the market has given opportunities to people to develop a skill and get a relevant job. Training and certification courses have made it possible for everyone to learn a skill quickly and effortlessly. To keep with the emerging jobs in society, training and certification are playing a crucial role in developing the industry. · The Pandemic Effect

The training and certification courses have equipped job seekers for the new jobs that the Internet and social media have brought with them. SEO analysts, social media managers, data analysts, coders, etc., require skills for which the universities are either not completely updated or do not have it entirely in their syllabus. The only option remaining for such aspiring employees is external training and certification courses. These courses are effective and provide flexibility in learning. This allows employers to hire skill-based employees that are familiar with the trend. · The loophole in the Education System With the fast-changing and evolving world, it is hard for the education system to keep up with everything. Apart from that, even if the education system managed to keep up with the world, training students in various areas would be a really difficult task for the universities. The specialisations that the universities provide are related to the industry and not one particular trait oriented.

Training and certification course providers are some of the few people who were highly benefited from this ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This presented the perfect opportunity for the employees to reskill themselves with the trending skills in the market. The flexibility that these training and certification courses provided helped the employees keep up with the trend in a quick and sophisticated manner.

The changing market needs skilled employees to carry out the smooth functioning of their businesses. The unpredictability in the market has made it hard to keep up with the skills that the new jobs require. However, the training and certification courses have made it possible for people to upgrade or reskill themselves with the changing needs of the market. Therefore, training and certification courses are important to land a skill-based job in this modern world to keep up with reskilling and adapt to the market's needs.

Though schools are doing a wonderful job in training students efficiently for the future, it lacks the one skilledbased learning that today's competitive world requires. The only loophole in the education system is filled by the

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ISM UNIV Preparing Industry-ready Tech Wizards

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raining companies have existed since the early days of the personal computer revolution, almost four decades ago.

Organizations all over the world wanted to educate people about the fundamentals of programming - from how to programme and measure using a spreadsheet and how to network and optimise the use of new computing technologies as computing became more widespread.

With the volatile job market of India, it is clear that there exists quite a gap between university graduates and competent engineering and IT professionals which serve as the primary workforce of the digital era.

Thus arises a need, which can only be served by institutions that commit themselves to bridging the skills gap by training aspirants in skills and competencies which are actually demanded in the real-world job market.

An exemplar in the training industry which has carved a niche for itself as being one of the most prominent certification providers and skill facilitators in the country, it the Bengaluru and Hyderabad-based ISM UNIV. ISM (Indian Service Machine) UNIV was established in the year 1994 as a small-scale industry to assemble and resale service personal computers, and soon after diversified as a small training institution offering special IT courses to enhance the employability and values of engineering

professionals. Hardware repair, network management, and qualification courses such as MCSE, CCNA, Android, and Linux are all offered by the institute.

As the institute gained experience in training, it completely closed the PC resale vertical and concentrated on training and consultancy.

ISM has taught students and corporate customers about innovations like hardware maintenance and network operation, as well as credential courses like CAN, MCSE, CCNA, J2EE, Net, embedded networks, cellular networking, DSP, and VLS.

Core Value Strive continuously to improve process and quality.

The Astute Leader The respected CEO and the founder of this institution – Mr. Loganathan, is passionate about training and has vast industrial and academia experience which brings in lots of value to ISM UNIV. His contribution to the institution has paved the way to its prosperity in the 26 years of its existence now.

ISM UNIV now offers many specialized courses targeting the job market for freshers. It has state-ofthe-art infrastructure with automated teaching tools and has established online platforms and forums for 360degree training.

“Today we don't shy away saying we are one of the premier training institutions in India providing authentic training with values,” says Loganathan V, the CEO of ISM UNIV. Mission Imparting industry relevant skills to students to enhance their employability and value.

Vision Build world class training institution through authoritative training.

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Training Industry-ready Professionals Over the period, the institute focused on training clients on embedded systems, having identified its strength in embedded system design and development, acquired expertise in this domain and collaborated with the embedded industry to offer industryrelevant training programs.

Since ISM's embedded training business over the years was very encouraging, the institute decided to launch embedded consultations for its corporate clients and started designing their own products. Today they service seven embedded blue-chip companies in the country and overseas. Recently, ISM has also bagged an R&D (research and development) project from a prestigious client for the next three years.

“That being our evolution, we are totally committed to what we do. We sincerely adhere to the quality and have a standalone system to evaluate our quality,” added Mr. Loganathan.

ISM has increased in size over the years, and now has a staff of over 150 people. The team is well-toned and understands the company's business goals and strives to meet their respective goals and deadlines.

ISM UNIV Bengaluru offers a number of courses like C, C++ programming, core Java, advanced core Java, Struts training, software testing, IoT and python, embedded training system.

ISM's training contents are industry driven. It trains on practical skills to enable students to fit into projects without any delay. The training adopts a 'Learning by Doing' methodology where the training is not bookish, but rather all modules and techniques are demonstrated practically following

ISM UNIV is passionate about training engineering professionals, considers training as purely a service and takes care of students during their career building process.

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industry practices and procedures. Students are encouraged to put their hands on all aspects of projects, like planning, coding, testing, and deployment.

Academic Programs ISM UNIV conducts the following courses: a. Master in Embedded Systems & IoT b. Master in IoT Development c. Master in Data Science and AI/ML d. Full stack Java Development e. Full stack Python Development The training is organized, scheduled, and conducted by trainers who possess an average industrial experience of over 10 years.

All the institute's training programs are completely planned from day one all the way to the last day.

What makes ISM Unique?

ISM UNIV is passionate about training engineering professionals, consider training as purely a service and taking care of students during their career building process.

The institute has trained over 30,000 professionals and helped in supporting their process of building careers. It has

Loganathan V CEO

placed over 15,000 professionals. It is authorised by AICTE-CEP to conduct few training programs. It is also authorised by ISTE to conduct selected courses. Additionally, the institute is training partner of 'Skill India' program

by NSDC. Preparing for the Future ISM UNIV has built a strong online platform to provide online and blended training across the country. It offers courses in online, offline, and blended mode. Additionally, the institute has built online discussion forums and video conferencing infrastructures needed to impart such online and blended training.

“We hope to extend our activities across India's cities and offer a costeffective solution for those in need of technical training facilities. We are currently focusing on e-Learning courses to enable the professionals to

learn from anywhere, anytime,” concluded the prominent leader, Mr. Loganathan V.

ISM UNIV's mission is of imparting industry relevant skills to students to enhance their employability and value.

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he pandemic revamped all the aspects of businesses, work, and workplaces. Employee training and certification cannot be an exception.

The traditional processes and practices have evolved and will evolve continuously.

The old training and upskilling strategies have been reoriented around the questions of training whom, training what, training how, training when and where, and training how much. These questions arise from changing business scenarios, customer expectations, technological and regulatory frameworks because of the course of the pandemic and an unforeseen future.

Finding answers to these questions will allow training and certification providers to design their new programs and modules according to the needs and requirements of the businesses, employees, and market forces shaping the change. Also, it will shift their focus from only present to the present and future combined, with a bit of backdrop of past.

Ultimately, it will prepare the businesses and their workforce to cope with present market demands, comply with present and future market expectations and become evolving professionals.

Many organisations have already taken these pandemicinfluenced challenges as an opportunity to reflect on their employees' current strengths, weaknesses and analyse the kind of training programs they can module to best suit their future expectations from their working professionals.

Changing Rules and Changing Roles: Be it financial, banking, economic, and insurance sector or retail, e-commerce, automobile, and F&B sector, more and more consumers are going digital rather than physically walking in and out of the branches or stores. This has ended many traditional employee roles on the one hand, while, on the other hand, increased digitalization has created many new roles. This has forced businesses to not only change their external operational policies but also interoperability practices and guidelines including their rules for employee recruitment and employee training and engagement.

Thus, the HR organisations catering to workforce training and certification, and talent management needs, had to change their strategic approach. #Hybrid Workplace: Critical Workforce Capabilities There is a need for special training split into two - in-office and remote workforce groups. Both groups can be trained either simultaneously or separately. The key is to make remote trainees feel as involved as in-office trainees.

Active communication and listening, critical leadership thinking, online/offline customer focus, and teamwork/collaborations are the essential capabilities trainers/talent managers must focus on for development. #Techno-Savvy Personnel: Digital Expertise Digital tools such as social-sharing Apps, live audio chats, and video sessions that create a deep and meaningful sense

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of social cohesion, empathy, and caring will lead to inperson and inter-personal learning.

Thus, by building digital training modules and then collaborating with learning partners to create a digital ecosystem, trainers/talent managers can then produce, deliver, and share digital content in real-time. #Soft and Smart Skilling: Healthy and Positive Creativity, innovation, emotional intelligence, time management, problem-solving attitude, and adaptability are the soft and smart skills trainers must instill in their trainees. These are going to be a must for the employees in the present and post-pandemic corporate world.

Trainers can also work on employees' overall behaviour and personality traits to encourage a positive and healthy approach. #Learning Flexibility: Facing Future Flexibility learning includes a no-regrets skillset, which is useful, irrespective of the employee's current and future specific role, and how it may evolve as per the situation.

A flexible workforce can quickly change their roles to confront the unforeseen events and suit the new expectations from them by their management and their colleagues and customers.

Reskilling and Upskilling: The changing dynamics of the corporate world are not only about digitalization, automation, artificial intelligence, remote working, and virtual workplace, but they are more about the focus of the business on its core strengths and weaknesses, including its assets and liabilities.

First of all, the leadership must look at employees as people instead of employees as mere workers. It will change their outlook from a professional workforce to a professional family. Only then can they create training and business models, which will consider reskilling and upskilling of their family members as a primary and utmost important factor.

The second thing is that companies must design a talent management strategy that develops employees' resilient personality to meet unexpected challenges. The resilient personality traits are critical, cognitive, communication and digital capabilities, social, interpersonal, learning, and emotional skills, and adaptability, flexibility, and attitude.

Thirdly, the times warn that instead of reducing their learning and training budgets, companies must double down on such funds and make a commitment that they will genuinely look after their workforce's reskilling and upskilling. Developing these two muscles will ultimately strengthen the organisation to face an unforeseen future of uncertainty and disruptions.

#Learning as a Culture: Resilient Workforce An orgnisation that encourages its employees to learn not only about its values, visions, beliefs, practices, and mission but also about the roles and meaning of their work in the company creates a culture of learning.

This learning culture will create a resilient workforce that can assess and analyse any situations and face all challenges and obstacles head-on.

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- Gaurav Wankhade

Nex-G Exuberant Solutions Pvt. Ltd. The Training Sandbox for Innovators and Pioneers

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n 2002, the CEO and the founder of Nex-G Exuberant Solutions Pvt. Ltd. – Mr. S. S. Bhowmick – started the company with only five employees. But now, after 19 years, Nex-G Exuberant Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a highly reputed name in the education and training sector.

The information and communication technologies (ICT) sector is transforming the world. Billions of connections between people and devices across the world are creating information societies in which learning and competence development represent the key to success. Successful learning cultures foster an environment where everyday learning, informal and onthe-job learning, and knowledge sharing form an integral part of the overall learning culture.

the company started working on 3G technologies and later added 4G technologies.

Today, the Nex-G team is currently working on technologies like 5G, Software Define Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Industrial Internet of Things (Industrial IoT), Geographic Information System (GIS), OTT TV, digital payments technologies, fiber optics, and many other exciting yet disruptive innovations.

The Quintessential Playground for Crazy Innovators and Visionaries R&D is at the core of Nex-G’s working model. “We are the market leaders in this domain specially when training comes into the picture,” said the dynamic and cultivated leader of NexG Exuberant, Mr. Bhowmick. “Also, we are merging new technologies, for example – there is a lot of OTT streaming, 5G broadcasting, these are also going to merge. So naturally, we are doing a lot of research on that.”

When it started 19 years ago, the wireless telecom sector was experiencing a revolution. At the time, 2G and 3G were the more popular technologies at play. Now the tech has evolved, and technologies like 4G and 5G are all the rage. We are on the verge of a 5G revolution, which is going to change everything.

Nex-G started with a vision of making optimal use of the various new revolutions in technology that are occurring in modern times. Initially,

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“In a few years, we will see that the streaming services that are available on OTT platforms now, will later be directly available, along with HD and 4K streaming from your telecom network,” added Mr. Bhowmick.

The aforementioned are the core domains that the Nex-G team is working on right now. Apart from that, the company is also doing research and development in payments technologies like EMV, where they came across security concerns, and the funds are transferred online and worked on developing solutions to the same end.

Additionally, Nex-G Exuberant has forayed into the fields such as fiber optics communications, for which the team also provides training and consultancy for the same.

In a nutshell, the core sectors this team of creative, innovative out-the-box thinkers is working on are ICT, FinTech, OTT streaming, and similar technologies.

Aspiring to Make a Difference “We are putting a lot of energy into the sorts of technologies that are going to rule in the next 5 to 10 years. That is our fundamental primer. We don’t work on obsolete things – those areas which are already developed or

matured and in widespread use. We focus on those areas which are actually going to gain traction in the coming years. That is the reasoning behind our name – ‘NexG’ – next generation!

Focus on technologies which are going to come next,” remarked the proud leader of the pack, Mr. S. S. Bhowmick.

The company follows a simple 3-step process to initialize the training and consultancy services of a given technology or sector as such: 1. Do research on next-generation technologies – specifically IT and communication technologies.

2. Convert them into training modules.

3. Do skill enhancements of individuals and corporates.

The company started working on 5G in 2013 itself – back when this technology was still in its infant stages.

Nex-G’s first presentation on 5G was uploaded on YouTube back in 2013.

Now, Nex-G Exuberant Solutions is doing research on 6G, which will be prominent sometime around 2030 – around 8-9 years from now.

An Evolved Vision Initially, the mission statement of Nex-G was:

‘Creating resources which can work at par with the industry.’

But now, as the company has grown over the years, it is not only helping individual students but also corporates.

Corporates, who are working on new projects and have to deal with new technologies all the time, also need handholding. They require expertise to traverse the swiftly changing dynamics of the tech industry.

“We have also provided our assistance and services to government organizations from India, Palestine, Malawi, Rwanda, Nigeria, Malayasia and many others. We worked with them on many projects and also delivered training and consultancy to them on different domains,” added Mr. Bhowmick.

The Visionary Leader Mr. S. S. Bhowmick is a computer engineer who started his career in 1998 with IIT-Chennai and a reputed communications organization. He counts himself lucky for getting a start to his career in research and development environment in the tutelage of renowned scholars such as Prof. Ashok Junjhunwala. Prof. Ashok Junjhunwala has always been an idol to Mr. Bhowmick. Being mentored by the professor has led to his complete

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We have also provided our assistance and services to government organisations like Ministry of Defence, DRDO, Indian Navy, NTRO, and many others.

transformation from that point onward: coming out with new technologies, serving the common man, taking the technology to the last mile. All these were his driving forces.

Such high ideals to strive for and dreams of living up to motivated Mr. Bhowmick to start something of his own in the field of technology and communication services. And finally, in the year 2002, he did! And the rest is history.

The Nex-G Advantage “We are research and developmentbased technology training company.”

Nex-G Exuberant Solutions are focused on optimizing its customers' investments in information technology.

It helps customers envision and shape their future around the key drivers of technology, productivity, and costeffectiveness.

Many other companies follow this pattern of – a market which already exists at large, people start following that market and launch training programs in that domain. Nex-G is completely the opposite in this regard.

“Whenever we see that there is a mature market and there are already a lot of players in that market, we leave that technology,” remarked Mr. Bhowmick. He adds, “We discontinue

those training programs. We always work on trainings, which are not delivered by many companies. We are never working on very common things, always working on uncommon things.

That’s actually something that the companies also ask, how do you learn all these things? Because this is something new.”

The company does it by spending a lot of time and investment on the learning part. Learning new things, developing the setups for them, doing R&D on them all well in advance, most of the times years in advance.

All this effort has bore fruits in the best of ways for Nex-G Exuberant Solutions. One of its most noteworthy achievements is being honoured as one of the ‘Top 100 Companies of Asia’ award by Red Herring – a feat which is even more impressive given that NexG is the only training solution provider who made it to this auspicious list.

Nex-G Consultancy Services The Nex-G Consultancy Services gives technology consultancy to different companies, mainly in telecom and IT. It offers solutions in next-generation information and communication technologies – Industrial IoT, SDN, NFV, 5G, Network Security, Network Applications, Apps (Web/Mobile), Big Data, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cloud Computing, Network

Simulations, Image Processing and GIS. What comes next?

In the next 2-3 years, there are going to be a lot of innovations. So, in lieu of the already depleted technologies and markets, the Nex-G team has started research and developing models of the sorts of technologies that are going to be all the rage, like 6G, V2X (‘Vehicleto-everything’ tech with its subsidiaries such as V2I – vehicle to infrastructure, V2N – vehicle to network, V2P – vehicle to pedestrian, V2D – vehicle to device, V2G – vehicle to grid, etc.), telecom broadcasting, and advancements in video streaming.

Scaling the Future “We want to grow our company and move more towards the corporate sector. And add new companies to our portfolio with whom we can work and provide technology consultancy to them. Additionally, we want to develop new products and make our services ever more efficient, whilst also researching and developing training modules for the new and exciting technologies of the future,” concluded Mr. S. S. Bhowmick.

It’s an exciting time right now to be working with Nex-G Exuberant Solutions. An exciting time!

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C OVID-19 Welcome

Change

For a Better Change “

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adam!” I turned by loud happy voice to face the sweets offered by a final year student who got selected in a big company. I congratulated him from the bottom of my heart. This used to happen every year. Final year students greet and get blessed with sharing the job news.

Many students graduated from different disciplines across the country get jobs in different companies. MayJune is the time of the final examination. It ends with the result and then joining the company starts in JulyDecember. Until then, students and parents work on different plans while waiting for the offer letter, joining letter. The parents feel happy and proud about their ward. Youth have enormous enthusiasm, a dash of talent, a lot of curiosity about the corporate field and the feel of the conquered world.

But .....now? Circumstances have changed by 360.

The reason is the global upheaval that has taken place in the last 2 months.

My whole life has changed from start to end. The context has changed.

To cope with this change, the young degree holders must be mentally, physically and financially prepared to enter the new corporate world. These youth and their parents come with a lot of questions about the future. They have worries, fears, anxiety and whatnot. What exactly to do? How to face this change?

I think it is necessary to shed light on this.

Now in this current situation, the graduates who have been selected and placed in the company and have received the offer letter may not be immediately allowed to join. In fact, they will have to wait for a few months. All the factories, IT companies have changed their calculations.

Industries are closed till date. So, they will not issue an appointment letter and

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if they do, the number of trainee engineers will be considerably less.

Initially, they will try to reduce costs.

The industry must survive first.

Suppose even if the joining letter is received, are graduates ready for working and living in such a situation in the metro city? And are parents ready to send their son/daughter? That is the question.

The crux is fresh graduates won't get new jobs at the moment. Coming two years, there is a total change expected in all areas. This is an expert's opinion.

Changes are inevitable in living standards, expenditure, jobs, industry and technology, various occupations, tourism, hotel, education, agriculture, automobile industry, health, infrastructure and many more. Again, there may be lots of opportunities for Indians but it will take time.

One should always try to keep positive.

Change is about to happen. It is not avoidable.

Specialist's Viewpoint

Nature is great and has taught us a lesson. The rule applies to everyone same here.

When you were a kid, you used to play a puzzle by matching pieces to create a picture.

This is a puzzle created by nature.

Everyone will be forced to understand and accept. Where and how to put and place themselves in this nature's puzzle?

Being said so, that the decision can be taken and one can make it right in the course of time by working hard and smart.

In this scenario, youth should try to develop their skills by analysing themselves. There are many courses available online. Any relevant course certification can make value addition to your own profile. This may help in future for sure.

One has to check the possibility to raise a business in their own village or at the native place with available resources.

Now, the flow to metropolitan areas has a fair chance to go down.

Calculate all kinds of costs and cut them wherever it is possible.

Contemplate, how to grow? Everything is going digital. We need to know the exact needs and steps of the hour.

Welcome and be ready for the expected and unexpected changes that will take place in the next five years. All these should be studied in-depth, with the help of parents, mentors and teachers.

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