SMART set to expand its operations

chennai: chennai based smart training resources, a pioneer in offering campus recruitment training programs in india set to expand its operations. currently present in 170 locations & offers various employability enhancement programmes to its clientele across the country, plans to expand over 400 locations.   smart training resources’ offers  â€¢ campus recruitment training• company specific training• english language development• technical training• career readiness credit courses for universities & autonomous colleges “with a client base of 550+ institutions nationwide and having trained over 1.3 million students and a successful placement track record of over 85%, we are india’s largest employability enhancer” said archana ram, managing director. with the mission to train 3 million young indians by 2020, the company is on an aggressive expansion mode focusing on tier ii & tier iii educational institutions. “by virtue of smart’s scale of operations and the quality of training that is imparted to our students, corporates – it as well as core – connect with us to meet their entry level recruitment needs on a regular basis,” added ms. archana ram. besides helping corporates in their entry level hiring, smart also offers to the corporate sector a host of other services like • campus to corporate training • hire, train & deploy • recruitment assessment• pre-selection services • life skills training the company also plans to rollout its services in the b2c format by establishing around 50 smart learning centers. another new initiative from smart as part of the growth strategy is to roll out 10 new online programmes. currently the company’s learning centers in chennai and coimbatore offer various intensive placement and career enhancement programmes to students who are preparing for their placements and pass outs who could not get placed from campuses directly. these programmes have been a raving success and are being made available in 50 smart learning centers within the next 18 months. according to a nasscom report, each year over 3 million graduates and post-graduates are added to the indian workforce. of these, only 25 percent of technical graduates and 10-15 percent of regular graduates are considered employable by the industry. this is precisely where smart has been adding value and doing its mite towards skilling india.