Category: Life Skills

Bajaj Finserv and NIIT announce partnership to create large-scale, job- ready pool of freshers for BFSI industry

NIIT Institute of Finance, Banking and Insurance (NIIT IFBI) – a subsidiary of NIIT Limited, and Bajaj Finserv, announced a partnership to create a large-scale, job-ready pool of talent for the BFSI industry. Bajaj Finserv, through its flagship CSR Initiative BEYOND, aims to train over 10,000 graduates, especially first generation graduates, every year across India.…

How to be more efficient while working from home

Today the number of remote workers is greater than ever before and due to recent circumstances such as COVID-19, more employees are turning to virtual jobs. While many workers like the idea of working from home, it’s normal for people to feel detached and alienated from their colleagues. Have a morning routine Having a morning…

Now job seekers can enhance their skills with the govt’s free digital learning platform

According to the India Skill Report (2019), only 45.6% of the youth graduating from educational institutions are employable. This reflects the massive shortage of skilled workforce in the country. To tackle the situation and help job seekers enhance their skills, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has recently entered in partnership with global…

How to manage the painful realities of “Working from Home”

Since the novel coronavirus outbreak, organizations around the world have shifted from offices to living rooms. The pandemic has led to the world’s largest work-from-home experiment. And while the idea was a farfetched dream for employees, the pandemic has certainly sped up the entire process of it. With companies like Twitter, Shopify, Square, and Facebook…

How to stay mentally healthy in times of a pandemic

The global coronavirus pandemic is in its full effect. Risk of catching the flu is on the rise more than ever, stock markets are at an all-time low, a global recession is knocking on the doors of the world economy and individuals are now confined to their homes. The lockdown imposed by governments around the…

Most school systems give us fish instead of teaching us how to fish.

  “The reality is that most of us grow up strapped in an educational system that favors obedience over independent thinking. We’re rewarded for trusting authority, and punished for challenging it. We focus on memorizing the stuff other people came up with—formulas in math, grammar rules in English, theories in physics, cell functions in biology—rather…