Building knowledge, skills and mindsets through vocational training layered with foundational and life skills in a structured, well-designed, experiential environment
180 million youth will enter India’s workforce in the next 15 years. But 33% are employment-unaware, 47% are school dropouts and 50% are unemployable. Existing skilling initiatives have gaps in relevance of curriculum, quality of delivery, minimal focus on mindset and behaviours, low placements focus, fewer employer linkages, and minimal post-training support and guidance.
Gurukul offers ‘Program in Life Management’ (PLM), a 360-degree holistic program focused on vocational and foundational learning aimed at making youth not only job-ready but also life-ready, thus enabling them to sustainably stay outside the cycle of poverty.
The Gurukul aims to enable underprivileged youth to
PLM is built with a strong emphasis on extensive experiential learning through habit-building and repetition. The students learn by doing, work with real clients, self-manage their behaviour and prepare for a life of high rigour in jobs. Our focus on life and learning foundations equips our students with the capability to make horizontal shifts in their careers and jobs, and hence insulates our students from sectoral and market changes.
Students are selected on the basis of economic need, intrinsic motivation, education qualification (for certain vocations) and livelihood aspiration. These selection criteria are contextualized according to the needs, awareness and belief systems of different communities and employer prerequisites.
Students are taken through a comprehensive curriculum built on 3 program pillars:
Basic life-skills required to develop behaviors, mindsets and attitudes to deal with career and life challenges
Foundational skills like english and digital literacy to navigate career and life situations, and unlock opportunities
Vocational skills required to perform a job and earn a livelihood
Towards the end of the PLM, students opting-in for placements are connected with multiple employers for attending job interviews. We currently work with over 150 employers to place our students (mostly in tier 1 cities), and have historically achieved 99.5% placement rates.
Our life-long support system for alumni, insulates them from routine life-shocks that may potentially pull them back into poverty. A dedicated team and a technology-enabled service delivery platform support the alumni for life.life/guard provides services to our alumni in these areas - career, housing, alternate job discovery, access to insurance and other schemes/benefits, and mentoring
Gurukul offers ‘Program in Life Management’ (PLM), a 360-degree holistic program focused on foundational learning towards formal employment, pulling youth out of the cycle of poverty, sustainably. Gurukul leverages India's demographic dividend through a residential skilling model by training students in livelihood, learning and life skills, followed by assured employability in the formal sector and transition support.
Building knowledge, skills and mindsets through vocational training layered with foundational and life skills in a structured, well-designed, experiential environment
180 million youth will enter India’s workforce in the next 15 years. But 33% are employment-unaware, 47% are school dropouts and 50% are unemployable. Existing skilling initiatives have gaps in relevance of curriculum, quality of delivery, minimal focus on mindset and behaviours, low placements focus, fewer employer linkages, and minimal post-training support and guidance.
Gurukul offers ‘Program in Life Management’ (PLM), a 360-degree holistic program focused on vocational and foundational learning aimed at making youth not only job-ready but also life-ready, thus enabling them to sustainably stay outside the cycle of poverty.
The Gurukul aims to enable underprivileged youth to
